| Nuvendil said: EA the parent company does not design games. Their subsidiaries, which are made of developers, do. The corporate side of EA is notorious for meddling in the design off games. Sims 4, Sim City, Dead Space 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter (and other MoH games), for ages EA has been known to mandate design decisions for major franchises that make no sense from a game design standpoint and are often consumer hostile. And nearly every time they do that, the result is a dead franchise and later a dead studio. |
And how does that make EA's internal studios any more different than it's current identity ? The idea of being both a game developer AND a corporation are not mutually exclusive ...
Just how does one dissociate from the other when they both work for the same firm ? EA are not just making these design decisions as publisher but they also do it as a game developer as well and that's the cold hard truth ...
Also, do you really think that a game company operates in such a binary fashion ? Where would game directors or producers fall in since since they both handle design decisions and corporate work ?
| Nuvendil said: And given they made no mention of the game being of poor quality but *specifically* referenced really long term player engagement, broad design, and specifically referenced as apparently undesirable elements the linear nature of it and it's singleplayer, story driven focus (which incidentally is what Visceral is good at and what they haven't been allowed to just *make* since Dead Space 2 to my knowledge), I would be astonished if it doesn't come out as I have descirbed or some variant thereof. EA has been trying to push their version of "games as a service" for years. Given the lootbox fiasco in Battlefront 2, it doesn't seem like they are ready to give up on that angle. Unless perhaps games using that model start bombing hard, then they may run scared back to the original design. But then, I would be more inclined to say they just axe the whole thing. |
Nothing has been promised about the game so far and we haven't seen footage yet so nothing could be said about the game itself so far ...
