Mass Effect 2 - RIP

I hope that nothing will change and it will still be as Bioware intended (99% of it). but I doub't it now :/.DanielDust

EA made NHL '95. They rock.TheCrazed420

Speculation FTL. Just because Bioware is hiring new people and placing them at a EA Montreal office doesn't mean the game will suffer.TheCrazed420

They are working with people from EA and hiring.

EA also did NFS 1,2,3,4,5,7 and look, they are still making them (Undercover) yep, they did a great job with their games, NHL 09 is spectacular...oh wait.

Just because they did good games when they were still growing doesn't mean that we can take for granted the fact that they will make a good game, Dead Space wasn't that good, and the only recent game that I like from EA, Mirror's Edge is made by Dice, and it's pretty underrated imo.

[QUOTE="TheCrazed420"]EA made NHL '95. They rock.DanielDust

Speculation FTL. Just because Bioware is hiring new people and placing them at a EA Montreal office doesn't mean the game will suffer.TheCrazed420

They are working with people from EA and hiring.

EA also did NFS 1,2,3,4,5,7 and look, they are still making them (Undercover) yep, they did a great job with their games, NHL 09 is spectacular...oh wait.

Just because they did good games when they were still growing doesn't mean that we can take for granted the fact that they will make a good game, Dead Space wasn't that good, and the only recent game that I like from EA, Mirror's Edge is made by Dice, and it's pretty underrated imo.

Bioware is owned by EA, so it's all up to EA, Bioware has nothing to do with "their relationship". The way Bioware "transformed" after they were bought by EA sais everything about it. Theor ME support is basically, umm what you have problems? lulz what, I dunno man, I mean..you know...like..yeah gtfo man you're funny :D" >_> lame even if they are owned and managed by EA.

[QUOTE="Avenger1324"]It will now conform to EA's time plan for getting a game out the door. Being on time and in the right financial quarter is far more important than producing good games :(Gooeykat

Unfortunetely that's true for most things nowadays, as the companies need to recuperate the money they spent... We really need to get back to where developers really cared for what game they were releasing, and how it was received. Unfortunately with the economy right now, it's probably going to be another year or 2 for the turn around

LOL, people rag on EA way too much! They have made MANY good games you know.Daytona_178

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]LOL, people rag on EA way too much! They have made MANY good games you know.dnuggs40

Bioware is owned by EA, so it's all up to EA, Bioware has nothing to do with "their relationship". The way Bioware "transformed" after they were bought by EA sais everything about it. Theor ME support is basically, umm what you have problems? lulz what, I dunno man, I mean..you know...like..yeah gtfo man you're funny :D" >_> lame even if they are owned and managed by EA.

DanielDust

Jade Empire's support was also lame, and that port was really bad. The re-encoded videos were horrible.

Meh, I don't like EA and it has nothing to do with the fact that criticizing them has become the cool thing to do. SecuROM, DRM, milking games, rushing titles to meet deadlines, excessive and intrusive marketing, etc. They have made some good games cerainly, but I can't support them until they change their policies.

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]

Bioware is owned by EA, so it's all up to EA, Bioware has nothing to do with "their relationship". The way Bioware "transformed" after they were bought by EA sais everything about it. Theor ME support is basically, umm what you have problems? lulz what, I dunno man, I mean..you know...like..yeah gtfo man you're funny :D" >_> lame even if they are owned and managed by EA.

Baranga

Jade Empire's support was also lame, and that port was really bad. The re-encoded videos were horrible.

EA is prolly looking to milk the cow dry by pumping out as many Mass Effect "sequels" as possible, like they always do. mirgamer

I don't know how many sequels you're expecting for Mass Effect, but apparently it was made clear that ME would be a trilogy. Of course, that may change should EA decide to change it. Then again, they can stick to keeping it a trilogy and then churn out spin-ff games instead w/c would suck. Who knows?

EA ruins/milks every successful series. It's a natural law.

EA ruins/milks every successful series. It's a natural law.

Swiftstrike5

...or kills them a la anything made by Bullfrog, Origin, and Jane's.

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]LOL, people rag on EA way too much! They have made MANY good games you know.dnuggs40

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"][QUOTE="Daytona_178"]LOL, people rag on EA way too much! They have made MANY good games you know.brood_aliance

It will now conform to EA's time plan for getting a game out the door. Being on time and in the right financial quarter is far more important than producing good games :(Avenger1324

[QUOTE="Avenger1324"]It will now conform to EA's time plan for getting a game out the door. Being on time and in the right financial quarter is far more important than producing good games :(GamerPro1984

Speculation FTL. Just because Bioware is hiring new people and placing them at a EA Montreal office doesn't mean the game will suffer.TheCrazed420

I hope not,Mass Effect (1) was a great game and from the teaser trailer,here on GS it looks pretty good.

[QUOTE="GamerPro1984"][QUOTE="Avenger1324"]It will now conform to EA's time plan for getting a game out the door. Being on time and in the right financial quarter is far more important than producing good games :(Hellboard

I thought Mass effect was going to have all kinds of addons etc.? It seemed like that was their plan but EA..... EA buys the little guy"dev/company" then assimilates there numbers,ideas,and talents then brushes them away just like the Borg :P.04dcarraher

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"][QUOTE="Daytona_178"]LOL, people rag on EA way too much! They have made MANY good games you know.brood_aliance

EA degrades each game in a series.

BF2142 has less content than BF2. BF2 has less content than BF1942, even with the 5 expansion packs for BF2. I'd even go as far to say that the purposefully cut content to sell as expansions and I'd probably be right.

They aren't like Blizzard or Valve who strive to make a better game each time. The want to make the cheapest game with the greatest profit and they usually do that by milking fans (selling expansion packs or 'mods' for full price).

Simple fact is we need less game developers like EA and Ubicrap, who are ONLY concerned about money. They have NO interest in making a good game. We need more developers like Blizzard, Valve, Ironclad, or Creative Assembly.

All the people moaning about EA's business model can feel free to speak out by not buying the game when its released.