and I am like "Bitch, clearly you have never had to work with EA" http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/gif-piracy-EA-608909.gif I had a question about Origin's rules on modding, and after two days I was told how to probably not be banned.
ThatToxicTroll19 votesEA is the big mother fcker of screwed up game companies. might be different now but from what i remember they would destroy a games reputation for a quick buck, force the designers to rush the next game so they could slap a price tag on it just like slappin their own greedy dicks
BetaDude407 votesRIP Westwood Studios, AKA my childhood
We all like to forget about C&C4
Razgriz9901 votes:( Westwood for lyfe
BetaDude402 votesI mean, I can tolerate Red Alert 3, it was pretty fun (trying to compare it to Red Alert 1 and 2, though, is like comparing a bullet to a MOAB), and I haven't played any C&C 3, but I hear it was okay.
C&C 4, let's face it: a travesty. I get it if they're trying to branch out and make the game more unique like a lot of criticisms stem from, but GOOD GOD don't change the entire reason we even played C&C to begin with!
Honestly, I'm glad they canceled Generals 2, because if it were bad for EA standards, it was either complete and utter shit or a complete and total masterpiece. Judging from what a few playtesters said, it seems to be the former.
AutoreactiveCD41 votesRumor is C&C4 was developed in about 4-8 months. I've played enough to believe that rumor. The really sad thing is that it had so much potential, just not as a C&C game. Just polish some aspects and add the Scrin for god's sake and I think it would've been fine.
Rueian1 votesNox Better than Diablo
Revive Aatrox1 votesLANDS OF LORE my very first LOL :)
Sinlaire5 votesEver hear of Warhammner online? Developed by Mythic games? oh yeah. EA ran it into the ground and they shut down a couple years after they bought it during development.
Ever hear of Dark Age of Camelot? Mythic's First game they ever made?
last i checked its been running for over 12 years.
Beldori1 votesToo bad it wasn't cause of EA that War was shut down, Games Workshop forced it down cause they moved the IP rights to Sega for games. Even more EA really didn't do a thing to the game, the dev team for it had some really shitty leads that forced half baked ideas out though it was EA that was pushing for the f2p model to hit for it before GW shut the game down
Sinlaire1 votesI'll give you that. but i still say that game was terribly mismanaged almost right from release with it being pushed out too early and classes being added later and there being a 200 participant cap in PvP because they couldnt manage server load nor do anything to fix it.
there are reasons for everything, but that still change the fact that i'll probably chalk that game up as one of the greatest failed opportunities that i've seen and hope to never see another again.
My father had a full Dark Promise Iron Breaker that was just a god and i frequently miss my Warrior Priest and White Lion :(
2000boxes1 votesimo the biggest failed opputunity was when google was about to be released they were going to sell it to a company for only 75,000 dollars and the company they were trying to sell it to turned down the offer saying that the search engine was so fast that they wouldn't be able to make money from putting ads on the homepage
Beldori1 votesYeah the game had so much promise but was handled so poorly though i will miss it, had some of the greatest pvp with great class mechanics that I've experienced. Playing a Ork was a blast
BattleBalladeer2 votesRIP Spore, the best Sims IP of all time and
RIP BattleForge the best RTS concept of all time. #NeverForget.
There is only one thing to ever go on my permanent [poop]list and that is Electronic Arts.
Ariel the Cruel2 votes... might be different now but from what i remember ...
Yep. Still pretty much the same. Though they also like to buy IP's they don't like now and make them vanish.
junglerboy162 votesRIP Dawngate, nearly 1 year departed.
You will be missed.
HighH11 voteswhat i remember they would destroy a games reputation for a quick buck, force the designers to rush the next game so they could slap a price tag on it
Battlefield 4 and Hardline. RIP Battlefield series
Biffolo1 votesHardline really wasn't that bad. Just us pc players get waaaay too egotistical about our franchise and a lot of people refused to give it a chance on PC. It actually is doing perfectly ok on console.
HighH11 votesI personally liked Hardline and it was a bit more casual so I didn't have to shit myself if I wasn't doing good there were no tanks or jets which I love about Battlefield franchise but sometimes they got annoying and some level 140 tryhard could go 45-0 in 1 round with a jet but a vast majority of people I've met didn't like it so I put it there.I'm quite sad it died so fast on PC
Biffolo1 votesTo be fair, those jets had counters if you were good enough. I actually found myself carrying harder on hardline honestly, just because the ttks were so lightning fast. That was another big issue people had with it, which is an arguable point, but somewhat legit.
Garlyle Wilds9 votesI think people conflate "listening to" with "obeying", which is why people get the idea they're not listening. Riot's probably the company that isn't a singular indie dev when it comes to actually conversing with its playerbase on a regular basis. But it's precisely because of this knowledge that people get the idea that if they complain loud enough, the change they want will happen, because Riot will hear. And honestly, they do - but they're not the only voice being heard.
gubigubi5 votesYeah Riot is a lot better than most at listening. They do a pretty good job more often than not.
Borbland4 votesThey also ruined Dawngate.
The game was pretty good, but what made it special was the focus on lore, and the amazing community.
EA was financing a fantastic team of developers (Waystone Games) who were about to release the 1.0 of the game, the big big official release after 2 years in Beta.
The update was ready, suddenly:
"We're sorry, Dawngate didnt bring us much cash as expected. We're now closing it, completly ignoring the fact that it could bring tons of money after being officialy released, and you cant say anything about it since we finance that game" - EA
I never played any EA game before, but heard their reputation. One of my friend was tempted to play it, but refused when I told him EA was implicated.
It seems he was right...
WutsKraken1 votesOnly "EA" games I've given a try are the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series. Technically made by Bioware, but financed by EA. Thankfully Bioware managed to keep most of the BS away
Blade of Justic3 votesOdd that the paying customers are hitting the pirates.
I'd imagine that EA would hit the customer and then the pirate would offer the customer something while hitting EA while at the same time, EA is hitting the customer again for accepting the "something".
EA really hates their customers.
Smithney1 votes[{quoted}](name=Blade of Justic,realm=NA,application-id=Ir7ZrJjF,discussion-id=wkYtHwaY,comment-id=0008,timestamp=2015-09-10T07:09:31.743+0000)
EA really hates their customers.
Wrong, EA don't give a fuck about their customers...
...which ends up being the same in the end.
manbearswine1 votesI'm not saying riot does a bad job at listening to their players(in fact they listen to them quite a lot),but comparing a company to EA is like comparing a champion to rengar,yeah,rengar is more obnoxious,but that really doesn't say much considering how insanely obnoxious he is.
Carnage1 voteslol
Leetri1 votesI tend to visit the HotStorm forums every once in a while to check if it's worth getting back into the game. You're lucky if you see one, two Blizzard posts a month there, and then most of the time it's about in-game purchases. I've seen several threads there were they beg Blizzard to be as active as Riot is on their forums, so I'd say we're pretty well off.
Dextix LT1 votesWell you ARE comparing them to satan himself. Even hitler looks nice compared to satan.
