after they do all this, they should make a "video game" console, that has pretty much none of this stuff you've mentioned and focuses instead on delivering top quality gameplay and graphical capabilities. It should eschew gimmicky things like kinect and twitter apps and instead poor funds into finding a way for hardcore gamers to embrace a high end console, e.g with digital releases, and mod supports, maybe even built in modding tools.
Patrick Bach and other dice employees mentioned that COD elite was a mistake in various interviews and that they would not take BF in that direction and yet hear we are.
They also said they were going to maintain good contact with those who purchased the game, yet it took an organized boycott to even get word of the first patch.
soon after they let all official servers disappear by way of rental, in addition to still allowing rented console servers to be named with the prefix [DICE]
Shortly we will receive a COD style CQB DLC for what has been a primarily large scale and vehicular warfare based game
This list could go on and on, but I grow weary of it and anyone still reading already knows what would go on it
Fool me once shame on you, fool me 8 or more times shame on me. Between EA ruining Mass Effect and BF (2 of my favorite series) among other EA related issues. I will no longer even consider purchasing a game that says EA anywhere on the box
I work as an illustrator creating art every day, if my art is not to my client's liking I am compelled to revise it. I can even be compelled to revise my work even if my client accepted it but the final product caused consumer revolt. For better or for worse many pieces of "art" get changed based on consumer wishes or reactions. I can think of a few movies that had endings rewritten based on audience reaction ( this article itself was corrected after publishing, you wouldn't have told your editor that your writing is the art of journalism and refused the correction) This article attempts to compare bioware to an artist creating something just for the sake of creating art. This is not the case, this is art as a business. We the consumer pay for a product. a great many found that bioware and EA delivered a uniquely broken product and with the current state of the industry there is little to nothing that can be done to rectify a situation like this. Many places won't accept returns on open non-defective products and selling a game barely recoups losses especially with EA's audacious pricing and pay walls. not purchasing DLC or future products from these companies whether through organized "boycotts" or just a mass lack of desired to get "fooled again" would be the best way to ensure that AAA releases receive better QA. As this is not a question of "art" and simply not liking the ending to a story but rather this a matter of poor craftsmanship
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