@dtrjones: You misunderstand. He said it felt like they gutted content in order to add it as DLC. I said that the reason there wasn't much content is because it was a beta.
@turbojugend16: It wasn't "half-broken". Now that a character is voicing the lines, they didn't want to have you read the lines in full first. Some people didn't like that decision, but it wasn't "half-broken", just a controversial design choice.
@Nightelf123: There aren't mixed opinions: they were given money for Battlefront and they spent it on something else. No company wants to give money to someone they can't trust.
Yeah, "transferring code" isn't quite as simple as you seem to think. Perhaps they could have simply ported the originals to current gen, but it would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to make it look the way it does. On top of that, they would be using a large code base without the help of people knowledgeable about that code base. It can be very difficult to understand a large code base like that without the help of someone involved in its creation. Creating the game in their own engine likely made the development much smoother, and will make it more maintainable in the future. I can say the code is too old--once people forget why things were programmed the way they were, it can be more difficult trying to understand the code than to simply remake it.
I know nothing about NFS and have no idea how applicable it is to Battlefront.
@Nightelf123: I believe Free Radical had the code for the first two games when they made the third, so they were just adding to pre-existing games. Dice couldn't do that because the original Battlefront code is too old at this point. Thus, it is an unfair comparison; Free Radical had it much easier. It is also unfair to say they "cut as much content as possible"; because they couldn't start from the original game code, there was no pre-existing content to cut. Also, the third game wasn't "foolishly" canceled; it was canceled because Free Radical was misappropriating funds for the game to finish one of their other games instead.
@OldDirtyCR: Notice how he tries to make an emotional appeal by calling it "propaganda". Notice how he also appeals to generational stereotypes and the anti-reasoning that anyone who disagrees "can't think". That's called "propaganda".
@whirlwind12: First, those people making the accusations are likely the target demographic of this website (video game players), so it directly addressing the target demographic.
GMG said specifically that they went around CDPR; they themselves made it sound suspicious. They have also discussed that there have been problems with keys they've sold, which is also suspicious and known to be true. The "lingering concern" remains at least with the people on Reddit, and likely anyone else who knew the facts: they were selling The Witcher 3 despite CDPR not making any sort of deal with them, and some of those keys they sold were invalid.
"Grey Market" doesn't imply illegal, and not even necessarily dishonest, just untrustworthy. Considering people have had problems with their products being invalid, there is some genuine concern.
Personally, I would be more likely to trust them now than I would have after the stuff with The Witcher 3, but I guess my schooling failed me so much I can't properly think the way the news wants me to.
This is propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda#/media/File:Is_this_tomorrow.jpg
It seems the public school system did a good job raising a generation of Americans who can't be rational for even a moment.
"Propaganda is a form of communication, often biased or misleading in nature, aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause, position or political agenda.
Propaganda is information that is not impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively (perhapslying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information presented."
You point out all the sentences that are biased, misleading, partial, selective, or using loaded message to produce an emotional response. Rather than just making generic attacks and insults, point out specifically what makes this propaganda. That is, if it really is propaganda.
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