Does anyone hate Electronic Arts as much as I do?
http://sports.ign.com/articles/572/572886p1.html
http://www.igda.org/articles/easpouse_qol.php
i REALLLLLLYYYY dispise EA and all their tricks they pull. If you've lived in a hole for the past 10 years ill tell you why i hate them so much. instead of MAKING games, they just go out and buy companies that make games: Maxis ( simcity people) Westwood Studios ( command and Conquer creators) the company that made System Shock, and System Shock 2 fell under the iron fist of this would be giant to turn great games\companies into nothing more than mediocare products they just shove down peoples mouths.
for every game you go out and purchase under the EA logo you can ganuntee there is a slayed company that was bought and ripped apart for it.
http://www.igda.org/articles/easpouse_qol.php
i REALLLLLLYYYY dispise EA and all their tricks they pull. If you've lived in a hole for the past 10 years ill tell you why i hate them so much. instead of MAKING games, they just go out and buy companies that make games: Maxis ( simcity people) Westwood Studios ( command and Conquer creators) the company that made System Shock, and System Shock 2 fell under the iron fist of this would be giant to turn great games\companies into nothing more than mediocare products they just shove down peoples mouths.
for every game you go out and purchase under the EA logo you can ganuntee there is a slayed company that was bought and ripped apart for it.
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I like EA. I guess I have been pretty much under the rock as to knowing exactly what they were doing with the company, but I like a LOT of the games that have come out under their name these past few years.
Heck if I could get one of my ideas out there that a big corp would be willing to pay to buy me out then I'd sell out in a heartbeat.
I really don't see the problem... It seems to be a case of freemarket ecomomy and a fact of commerce.
No one will care in a hundread years anyway.
"g"
Though I may actually get with a smaller company instead for other reasons. EA also bought Criterion, who made... or whom bought out the original owners of a product called "RenderWare". Which if they are as evil as you think, could be a bad thing. EA now owns a product which is used industry wide in shortening the amount of time it takes to build a new Game. It's bad in that EA can basically say what goes with the product now, IF they choose to licence it out still. Though I am sure they will since it currently costs $300,000 for the bare basic package, and even more money per module such as Sound, extra Effects for various other asepects too that I cannot think of at the moment.
RenderWare really is amazing, and just in case you don't know, it's a "MiddleWare" product that you buy to get a jump start in a game engine, you buy whatever you need, then the programmers adjust it's expencive OpenSource code to their liking adding and taking out whatever they wish. It's been used in many many products like GTA3, and I think BattleField 1942, more than likely BattleField 2 as well.
I got to play with it some for a couple months
But I really don't think EA is any more evil than ANY other corporation out there "trying to make a buck". I know there are companies out there that really do care, and others who are just like Microsoft, but not as sucessful. But I'd say most are as evil as they can be.
It's in the US version of GT2.
They will think about that when their job is shipped overseas.
And on the comparison to Microsoft ... well I loathe MS as well, but at least they're known for treating their employees well.
Maxis & head software architect Will Wright (creator of almost all of the "Sim" games) tried to launch a much earlier version of The Sims (or some type of "electronic dollhouse" application) in the early 90's, and it wasn't well received by the community at all. So much so that the project was scrapped and placed on the back burner while work progressed on other big-selling titles @ the time (SC2K, Sim Tower & Sim Isle).
With the assistance of EA, Maxis was able to get the title working, up to snuff and shipped. The result? The definitive number 1 selling game of all time with countless expansion packs, raking in the dough for EA.
So in essence, EA was a saving grace for Maxis, and in return Maxis has become EA's cash-cow.
Do I hate EA? Not for what they have done for the Simulation gaming industry, but for stagnating other genre's, yes.
Gran Turismo 3 -A spec has a couple RUFs in them... RUF is a company that modifies Porsches so much that it doesnt count as a porsche anymore... i think theres a 911 turbo RUF and a boxter RUF and a 911 carerra RUF.. i love most of EAs games but i also hate them for not letting Gran Turismo have porsches/ferarris/lambos -_-
One exists... to an extent...
Yoot Saito, creative mastermind behind SimTower, took the idea one step further and expanded the capabilities of SimTower, making it much more customizable and more challenging, but went with SegaPC as the publisher instead of Maxis.
The result? Yoot's Tower.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/161/161789p1.html
Thats why I hate buying any EA title
Me -> "WTF has that got to do with the problem you retarded monkey?" Well I don't think I exactly put it like that but that was how I was feeling about it at the time. Anyway, mid this year they released the first patch for Cricket 2002 so chances of getting a patch for Cricket 2004 before 2006-07 look slim to none.
If it wasn't for BF1942, there wouldn't be an EA game I proudly own (or want to).
Now thats one you don't hear everyday!
They've made my favorite game of all time: Battlefield 1942.
But their follow up (Battlefield Vietnam), was possibly the most purchased WORST release by EA, ever?
Hopefully Battlefield 2 (possibly the most anticipated game by the bf42, dc, and bfv communities), with enough support this game WILL go to summer '05 CPL.
#BF24SUMMER