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"EA Halts DICE Projects Pending 'Battlefield 4' Fixes"
"Electronic Arts Tanks After Hitting Reset On Battlefield 4"
"Did EA Lie About Battlefield 4? Now Under Investigation"
I don't give a single crap about Battlefield 4 per se, but it's nice to see EA finally starting to reap back a tiny bit of the bullshit that they've sown over the years, even if nothing really comes of all this in the end. The schadenfreude alone is worth it for me.
Kind of sucks for DICE though. They're just yet another company that got gobbled up by EA and is now being shat upon by them. (I'm guessing they were, like, shat out first, and then that shit was itself shat upon... I don't know, mixed metaphors and all that... *shrug*)
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A quote from the last article linked above: "Of further worry may be that EA has permanently damaged its reputation among gamers, which could affect its sales of other games in the future."
I can't help but roll my eyes at that. One would think that this particular ship would had sailed loooooong ago, but if it hasn't already done so by now, then this thing here with Battlefield 4 isn't going to matter much in the long run either, unfortunately. Video gamers (generally speaking, and aside from me and a few others of like mind) are very fickle and have incredibly short memories about things like this. Once the problems with BF4 are half-assedly patched up into a mostly playable state, people will forget all about it, and when the next big thing (such as the next Dragon Age game) comes out, they'll suck it down and ask for more (even though the previous game, in the case of Dragon Age, was a mediocre mess at best).
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"Electronic Arts Tanks After Hitting Reset On Battlefield 4"
"Did EA Lie About Battlefield 4? Now Under Investigation"
I don't give a single crap about Battlefield 4 per se, but it's nice to see EA finally starting to reap back a tiny bit of the bullshit that they've sown over the years, even if nothing really comes of all this in the end. The schadenfreude alone is worth it for me.
Kind of sucks for DICE though. They're just yet another company that got gobbled up by EA and is now being shat upon by them. (I'm guessing they were, like, shat out first, and then that shit was itself shat upon... I don't know, mixed metaphors and all that... *shrug*)
(EDIT)
A quote from the last article linked above: "Of further worry may be that EA has permanently damaged its reputation among gamers, which could affect its sales of other games in the future."
I can't help but roll my eyes at that. One would think that this particular ship would had sailed loooooong ago, but if it hasn't already done so by now, then this thing here with Battlefield 4 isn't going to matter much in the long run either, unfortunately. Video gamers (generally speaking, and aside from me and a few others of like mind) are very fickle and have incredibly short memories about things like this. Once the problems with BF4 are half-assedly patched up into a mostly playable state, people will forget all about it, and when the next big thing (such as the next Dragon Age game) comes out, they'll suck it down and ask for more (even though the previous game, in the case of Dragon Age, was a mediocre mess at best).
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