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oniyide on 28 August 2012
RolStoppable said:
bmmb1 said:

Thanks EA, really...

And Dead Space Extraction was not the only example, there are others (for example the basketball game with celebs, forgot its name). One case could be coincidence, but there is a clear pattern for EA and the Wii from a certain point onwards.

As to companies possibly sabotaging games on purpose to gain certain objectives - those who think it is unlikely and mad obviously do not know this world we live in well enough. People embezzle and murder for far less money than the kind of money these companies roll around.

You must mean NBA Jam. This game had an interesting history. There was hype after the E3 announcement, but then it got bad news after bad news. It's as if EA was scared that the game would sell on the Wii and tried their best to achieve the opposite. I don't remember all the details, but it eventually came down to the 360 and PS3 getting superior versions announced for half the price or something along those lines.

None of this is actually true, the PS360 version was the same price came out later and was also missing features. THe baller mode or whatever it was called was replaced with an online mode. Both versions were lacking and there wouldnt be an actual complete version released until the next year on PSN/XBL



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oniyide on 28 August 2012
cusman said:

EA is behind a number of great games and it would be foolish for them to stop making sports games on yearly basis when a bunch of people like to consume that product on yearly basis. That essentially funds their development of other riskier games. You would be getting news reports about EA studios shutting down at the rate of THQ if it wasn't for the sports titles in EA keeping their lights on when one of their more riskier things fails.


to be fair, its not like they are stopping making sports games altogether, and how much money were they really making on the portable versions



bmmb1 on 28 August 2012
oniyide said:
RolStoppable said:
bmmb1 said:

Thanks EA, really...

And Dead Space Extraction was not the only example, there are others (for example the basketball game with celebs, forgot its name). One case could be coincidence, but there is a clear pattern for EA and the Wii from a certain point onwards.

As to companies possibly sabotaging games on purpose to gain certain objectives - those who think it is unlikely and mad obviously do not know this world we live in well enough. People embezzle and murder for far less money than the kind of money these companies roll around.

You must mean NBA Jam. This game had an interesting history. There was hype after the E3 announcement, but then it got bad news after bad news. It's as if EA was scared that the game would sell on the Wii and tried their best to achieve the opposite. I don't remember all the details, but it eventually came down to the 360 and PS3 getting superior versions announced for half the price or something along those lines.

None of this is actually true, the PS360 version was the same price came out later and was also missing features. THe baller mode or whatever it was called was replaced with an online mode. Both versions were lacking and there wouldnt be an actual complete version released until the next year on PSN/XBL

All of this WAS true at the time the Wii version came out - it does not matter what eventually happened, what matters was what was known at the time the WIi version came out - and what was known at that time was that the HD version will be available with online, minus one mode, and FOR FREE to anyone buying it together with NBA Elite 11. Now tell me this would not kill the momentum for any game...

Eventually what happened was that NBA 11 was delayed/cancelled, so they sold NBA Jam as a standalone with all the bells and whistles, in HD,  including the Wii mode (and with online) at the same price as the Wii game.



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Mr Khan on 28 August 2012
amp316 said:
I also would like to thank EA for not giving the 3DS the horrific, abysmal, vomit inducing, and unplayable Boom Blox. You guys have really helped the 3DS library.

Did Boom Blox murder one of your ancestors or something?



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oniyide on 28 August 2012
bmmb1 said:
oniyide said:
RolStoppable said:
bmmb1 said:

Thanks EA, really...

And Dead Space Extraction was not the only example, there are others (for example the basketball game with celebs, forgot its name). One case could be coincidence, but there is a clear pattern for EA and the Wii from a certain point onwards.

As to companies possibly sabotaging games on purpose to gain certain objectives - those who think it is unlikely and mad obviously do not know this world we live in well enough. People embezzle and murder for far less money than the kind of money these companies roll around.

You must mean NBA Jam. This game had an interesting history. There was hype after the E3 announcement, but then it got bad news after bad news. It's as if EA was scared that the game would sell on the Wii and tried their best to achieve the opposite. I don't remember all the details, but it eventually came down to the 360 and PS3 getting superior versions announced for half the price or something along those lines.

None of this is actually true, the PS360 version was the same price came out later and was also missing features. THe baller mode or whatever it was called was replaced with an online mode. Both versions were lacking and there wouldnt be an actual complete version released until the next year on PSN/XBL

All of this WAS true at the time the Wii version came out - it does not matter what eventually happened, what matters was what was known at the time the WIi version came out - and what was known at that time was that the HD version will be available with online, minus one mode, and FOR FREE to anyone buying it together with NBA Elite 11. Now tell me this would not kill the momentum for any game...

Eventually what happened was that NBA 11 was delayed/cancelled, so they sold NBA Jam as a standalone with all the bells and whistles, in HD,  including the Wii mode (and with online) at the same price as the Wii game.

People were getting mad before the game was even confirmed for PS360, it was first leaked with that ESRB rating chart, why would they get mad at that? Then more people got mad when it was to be bundled with NBA Elite, lets look at the big picture here that was done so as to give incentive for people to buy their game over NBA2k, not as a way to screw over Wii owners, its not always about you guys, and no it wasnt free you still would have to have bought the game.  

I will agree that it was kind of messed up in the end, i didnt know the HD version had all of the content. But lets be real its not like it was all rainbows and peaches for the HD version either, it was released later and a cheaper better version of that was released even later on PSN/LIVE.  It going multi didnt kill the hype, the fact that it had no ads and was stealth released was what killed it. the who situation was messed up, no matter what the system



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NintendoPie on 28 August 2012

We all love you for that EA... but we still hate you for everything else.



amp316 on 29 August 2012
Mr Khan said:
amp316 said:
I also would like to thank EA for not giving the 3DS the horrific, abysmal, vomit inducing, and unplayable Boom Blox. You guys have really helped the 3DS library.

Did Boom Blox murder one of your ancestors or something?

Have you played the game?  Leave it to Steven Speilberg and EA to team up to make the only game in the world where you can shoot cats with lasers and somehow make it devoid of fun.  



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bmmb1 on 26 September 2012

And here we go again... (time to resurrect this not very old thread):

EA first announces only a single "core" game for the WiiU - ME3, a port of an already published game (arguably though a good game), at full price (while the other versions are or will be already available at discount when it comes out).

This is probably their "core test game" for the WiiU. But as if that is not enough, to make sure it doesn't succeed, and so we can stop any "core game" effort for the WiiU, let's let's announce the full ME trilogy for the other consoles at the same price. Now who will go ahead and buy ME3 on the WIIU? Beats me (I was actually thinking of buying it before that).



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Metrium on 26 September 2012

EA's goal is not to help move the video game industry forward. Their goal is to play the role of a leech sucking off all the blood from the industry it can for the cheapest they can.

Thank you EA.



 

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wfz on 26 September 2012
bmmb1 said:
And here we go again... (time to resurrect this not very old thread):

EA first announces only a single "core" game for the WiiU - ME3, a port of an already published game (arguably though a good game), at full price (while the other versions are or will be already available at discount when it comes out).

This is probably their "core test game" for the WiiU. But as if that is not enough, to make sure it doesn't succeed, and so we can stop any "core game" effort for the WiiU, let's let's announce the full ME trilogy for the other consoles at the same price. Now who will go ahead and buy ME3 on the WIIU? Beats me (I was actually thinking of buying it before that).


Well... looks like I'm not getting it on the Wii U. I'm not getting it at all.