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Nautilus on 17 October 2017

Thats just sad.By the looks of it, Visceral was hard at work trying to make an excellent Star Wars game, much better than Battlefront ever was and ever will be, but since these mentally handicapped executives think that only multiplayer focused games or open world games sell( and that they NEED to have a way to apply microtransactions), they will either cancel this game or butcher it to the point that it will become a COD or Destiny clone.

Unfortunelly EA is nowhere close to closing its doors.This will only become more and more common, as EA locks behind its vault precious and beloved IPs(Dead Space for instance) and keeps on killing talented studios.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

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AngryLittleAlchemist on 17 October 2017
Nuvendil said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-hfRytMLUk

He called it sadly.

And enougj of this "our customer's tastes are always" evolving BS.  That's not way you're trying t shove games as a service, microtransactions, lootboxes, forced online and multiplayer components, and all your other crap down everyone's throats.  It's greed, naked greed, and you are fooling no one.

Good video, sad truth.



Nautilus on 17 October 2017

Oh Amy was the director???Fucking hell EA, what have you done?

God, I really hope that Battlefront 2 crash and burns.Compared to what that Star Wars game could have been, this game cant hold a freaking candle.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Volterra_90 on 17 October 2017

EA swallowing another company? Shocking. And after Hardline, I thought that Visceral would be the next.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 17 October 2017
Nuvendil said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-hfRytMLUk

He called it sadly.

And enougj of this "our customer's tastes are always" evolving BS.  That's not way you're trying t shove games as a service, microtransactions, lootboxes, forced online and multiplayer components, and all your other crap down everyone's throats.  It's greed, naked greed, and you are fooling no one.

Oh shit! Update:



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derpysquirtle64 on 17 October 2017

That's why I haven't bought a single EA game this gen. This company is terrible. Worst publisher ever.



 

JRPGfan on 17 October 2017
shikamaru317 said:

Damn it EA, they were a great studio.

That Visceral Star Wars update sound worrying, sounds like they want to force games as a service or multiplayer into it. And the game is delayed too, f*ing hell.

That was some time ago....

Basically EA made them make a differnt game than they wanted too (they pushed them into G a a S + microtransactions).

Then when they saw the progression, and how the game worked as a G a a S, they shut down the studio.

 

This is basically what Microsoft did, with Fable.

developer is makeing a single player focuse game, and its change to suit a multi-player G a a S type, and then fails at it, and they close down studio.



Volterra_90 on 17 October 2017

And I fear that Anthem would be the game that bury Bioware too. I hope not, but I expect that to happen in a couple of years.



Turkish on 17 October 2017
Captain_Yuri said:




Oh what this game could have been

So:

-Uncharted Star Wars cancelled

-Star Wars made by Uncharted director cancelled

Volterra_90 said:
And I fear that Anthem would be the game that bury Bioware too. I hope not, but I expect that to happen in a couple of years.


Anthem will be a bland, lootbox heaven Destiny clone with a 100M $ marketing that will likely sell really well. Since Bioware sucks at writing no one will miss the lack of story.



Nem on 17 October 2017

They didn't believe Amy Hennig after all those Uncharted's. Absolutely amazing!

I guess Jade Raymond is next.

Yes, EA is disgusting.