| SuperNova said: |
"Dragon Age inquisition was a critically acclaimed and well loved entry into the franchise"
You literally took the one example I was thinking of, haha.
I'm talking about Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age 2, The Old Republic, Mass Effect Andromeda. You know ... a huge majority of their catalog since 2011? I'm sure your reply will be "but but metacritic reviews!" or "but people liked ME3 just not the ending!" - let's be honest, critic scores have almost never mattered and that's a silly metric. All those games got massive backlash for various reasons, The Old Republic was considered pretty damn mediocre or even disliked when it launched, Andromeda was hated, Dragon Age 2 was hated, Mass Effect 3 I think by in large has gotten MORE dis-favorable as time goes on and more fans seem to not enjoy it's more action oriented approach. That's up for debate, but what's not up for debate is that as a whole - meaning the market opinion - these games were at best considered divisive and mediocre and at worst considered terrible. Not a great track record. And if your reply to that is "Well, that's just like not fair! Only two of those were recieved absolutely terribly!" Well ok, the defense that Bioware is still a good developer literally relies on one game ...
"If you think the studio has any actual say in this you're at best very naive, when it comes to the way certain publlishers operate. Even if you think somehow all of EAs studios are just running wild and just doing whatever the fuck they want, it isn't a good look for EA and just spells incompetence all over again."
You normally make really good replies so it's very odd that you would write something this off-base. I mean, you literally take a leap from "if you think the studio has any actual say" to , and I'm not exaggerating, "if you think somehow all of EAs studios are just running wild" - WHAT? Do you have to resort to such faulty logic to make a reply? No, you really don't. So don't do it.
Not only that, but I don't understand the whole "naive" aspect of that sentence. Let's be honest, most of the internet outrage is from people that watched three YongYea videos and think they know all the ins and outs of EA. When it comes to pretty much any forum poster, you're always going to know way less than a developer(and even they know less than the corporate chain). It's great that there's outrage over bad companies like EA - it's well deserved, but let's not pretend like most people bashing on their control of creative developers are coming from an educated scholarly perspective. There's always going to be speculation.
"Also EA has a long and storied history of doing this. When you have 13+ dead studios under your belt, you have systemic issue, not a few rouge studios."
You're right, where did I dispute or deny this?
"Not sure what you're trying to achive by calling 'good-guy EA' here. It just isn't the reality of the situation."
Playing 'good-guy EA'? Surely you're more mature than that? That's absolutely, and not even close to, what I'm doing. Holy god, people get so defensive of their preconceived notions. A notion I don't even disagree with, just one that I think is over extending it's reach. I think you seriously need to reread my comment, because even if it's in slight disagreement it's a way more innocent intention than you seem to think. I'm simply suggesting that something is clearly wrong with the developers as well as the publishers. You're going to far, and not just that, but you're acting like Bioware is a toddler that needs to be babied. They decided to sign with EA, and surely they have some level of responsibility for their games. I'm not saying it's a 100% or that they wouldn't do better under a different publisher either.
