I think this is a sign of a rushed-to-market project, without full (sufficient) resources being put behind it.
Given the choice between BAD and NO on-line, I would rather NO.
Given that EA shuts down servers within two years of a game's release, long-term I would rather have the focus be on off-line play for this title.
The $64 question is whether on-line play was ever promised and then yanked away. The best I can remember, was EA saying it would be investigated/tried.
As for the DLC versions on PSN and XBLA -- that appears to me to be a new retail purchase bonus.
Is EA good in this .. NO?
Is EA worse than Activision to the Wii? ... Toss-up -- though at least EA did not release Big League Sports, Birthday Bash, Pirate's Quest, Pitfall Big Adventure, Block Party, or Arcade Zone (the latter two of which I own) -- or too many Guitar Hero games and too late CoD:MW. Compared to that line-up, EA has only really done one minigame collection that was not part of a running series -- EA Playground and that was 2007.
Mike from Morgantown
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