• EA faces row over Dungeon Keeper
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"We don't understand why we were voted America's worst company!" *shits out a horrendous mobile game* *gets stern looks* "What?"
EA butchering game series' is nothing new. All they care about nowadays is money etc
Jim Sterling is on BBC now? Wow, kudos to him.
"Hey your game is poorly balanced" "We don't think it is, fuck you and buy our gems". Good job.
I don't understand, EA says they want to improve and not to get golden poo again, and then they do whatever is necessary to win it again. Really, what the actual fuck are they doing.
F2P games need to go away.
The thing is, most mobile games ARE like this. Most GLU games are like this. Gun Bros, for example. You need to grind a shit ton just to get some weapons that are actually good, and then there's this massive money gap between the next good weapon. Although, I still don't think EA should follow it.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;43822146]F2P games need to go away.[/QUOTE] They really do, I'd rather pay money for a game and have fun with it, instead of play it for free and get murdered with microtransactions. But hey, developers know it's more profitable in the long run, I know a few people who've spent $500+ on F2P games, one who even spent $1000+.
It was always going to come to this. They have a game called real racing too, where you can literally play for 600 hours of boring grindy progression, or you can pay thousands of pounds to skip it. It's annoyingly smart how they eke cash out of you too. Having your car's durability deteriorate then forcing you to wait 20 minutes or a few hours... or pay 10p to get it repaired instantly.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43822258]It was always going to come to this. They have a game called real racing too, where you can literally play for 600 hours of boring grindy progression, or you can pay thousands of pounds to skip it. It's annoyingly smart how they eke cash out of you too. Having your car's durability deteriorate then forcing you to wait 20 minutes or a few hours... or pay 10p to get it repaired instantly.[/QUOTE] Mobile games like that just scream "scam" so much, only idiots would continue using them.
Internal testing at EA = Turning to the guy on the left of your desk and saying 'I make good shiny shiny?'
[QUOTE=Memobot;43822311]Internal testing at EA = Turning to the guy on the left of your desk and saying 'I make good shiny shiny?'[/QUOTE] It's probably more like "this is incredibly cheap to make and your average mobile gamer is dumb as a sack of hammers. They'll lap it up."
"if you dont like our games youre a homophobe whos just entitled and wants everything on a silver platter" thats EA's excuse if you dont like their games
EA also said that this game isn't made for fans of the original. I wonder if they hear themselves when they say things like that.
This isn't a big surprise for me and many who experience shit like this on mobile games, F2P games and games handled by EA.
[QUOTE=megafat;43821761]"We don't understand why we were voted America's worst company!" [/QUOTE] Its the homophobes, duh.
I want a remake of the Populous games, but then I remembered that EA owned the license to those games. Then I cried. EDIT: Seriously, what the hell? How can you release a great game to mobile phones, claim it isn't for the original fans, and then force players to spend hundreds of dollars/pounds/euros/whathaveyou just to make [I]some[/I] progress?
At least we now have the community making a new actual DK game.
Remember, it's always-online as well. Lol. [QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;43822163]The thing is, most mobile games ARE like this. Most GLU games are like this. Gun Bros, for example. You need to grind a shit ton just to get some weapons that are actually good, and then there's this massive money gap between the next good weapon. Although, I still don't think EA should follow it.[/QUOTE] I've played gun bros and it's great. You get to play the game and kill things for as long as you want then your stages get harder and harder until you have to buy a new gun. You'll have to grind to buy it but it usually takes 2 days to do it and it isn't 2 days because you have to wait for your daemons to excavate a little cube, it's 2 days because you'll play like an hour or two per day.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;43822146]F2P games need to go away.[/QUOTE] No, not at all. There are many great F2P games, it's just that the overwhelming majority of them is shit.
[QUOTE]"We specifically built Dungeon Keeper around typical mobile play patterns - that is, checking in a few minutes here and there throughout the day,"[/QUOTE] Yeah, I dunno about you guys, but when I play mobile games, it's usually because I have to sit and wait and have to burn anywhere between 15 minutes to an hour. This kind of play "style" is stupid.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;43822146]F2P games need to go away.[/QUOTE] I think developers making dumbed down versions of already existing popular games just to cater to players that have no interest in the originals is worse. Dungeon Keeper, Thief, Deus Ex: The Fall etc are all games that fans of the original games are going to have pretty much no interest in. They are just there to make as much money as possible without caring at all what fans of the series will think. Dungeon keeper is a series that hasn't had a new game for many years, and when it finally does it's a mobile game targeted at people who have probably not even heard of the original games.
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;43822163]The thing is, most mobile games ARE like this. Most GLU games are like this. Gun Bros, for example. You need to grind a shit ton just to get some weapons that are actually good, and then there's this massive money gap between the next good weapon. Although, I still don't think EA should follow it.[/QUOTE] This is why you use GameCIH to give yourself more money instead of giving it to greedy devs
News Flash: EA Fucks up. More at 11.
The original Dungeon Keeper has to be one my favourite games of all time, basically the nostalgia of my childhood summarized. It's a shame companies have to milk out good concepts, especially for a company such as EA.
Free 2 play, yeah pretty much free. Except you have to put in a shitload of time to get items.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;43822146]F2P games need to go away.[/QUOTE] The majority of F2P games aren't bad. Some are labeled incorrectly on purpose to pull people in but is actually a trial, and some just take the absolute piss. Dungeon Keepers isn't even a game. You start it, you tap the screen 4 times, you don't touch it for 24 hours until you have to tap it again. That's not a game.
[QUOTE=Robber;43823064]No, not at all. There are many great F2P games, it's just that the overwhelming majority of them is shit.[/QUOTE] I agree, however, even if I had to pay to buy those free to play games that are actually good if it meant that all the shit ones would go away I wouldn't mind one bit.
Im gonna be pretty honest, the rap song is real catchy :v: At least this horrible mess make me want to play the original Dungeon Keepers.
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