Jimquisition - EA & Ubisoft: A Cycle of Perpetration and Apology - General

Its pretty much a bunch of crap they spew for shareholders, they'll always defend and pretend that that they have confidence in there products and vision. Because if they don't then shareholders won't have confidence in them. Then when they made there millions they'll apologize and backpedal in preparation for there next product. Rinse and repeat. A pretty good example of this is Kinect for Xbone and what Microsoft did. EA has also been doing this crap for forever and people are not now realizing it. Like BF2 became a mess after launch and there was a mass call to boycott 2142 for being a bf2 reskin and the advertisement fiasco and when it launched it was also a broken mess. Like I remember on forums people were saying they were gonna switch to quake wars etc but that game never panned out.

[QUOTE=LurkyLurker;45350578]Publishers and the developers under them are corrupt to the point of evil. Indies resort to scams and broken games for quick cash. Even if things were to improve, what would really change? Slightly better written shooters? Netcode where desyncs happen only every two hours instead of ten minutes? Companies who instead say "our game will have issues at launch"? Be honest, when is the last time we had a truly great game release? 2000? Gaming is a fundamentally flawed medium and maybe its time to pull the plug before it gets even worse, because it certainly is not going to get any better.[/QUOTE] People were probably saying the exact same things just before the first video game crash of 1983. The industry is polluted with too much crap right now and if companies like EA and ubisoft don't put a stop to what they're doing they're just gonna end up killing their livelihoods in the process. It won't be pretty but it's gonna leave a pretty big space for people who actually care to take over.

[QUOTE=codemaster85;45344833]Net code video BC2 was on the old netcode system aka 10 tickrate while BF4 is now at 30.[/QUOTE] I'd still say that's a fairly long amount of time, I mean us CS players moan endlessly about 64 tick servers.

[QUOTE=Pappi_man;45335694]I wish more people did this.[/QUOTE] But they're publishers. Exhibit A: Developer Remedy makes Alan Wake.publisher X sells it. You buy it, play it, and would like to play some more in the future. You think those who made it rock. Let's say something like Watch dogs comes along,you buy it because the last time you bought a game sold by publisher X, wich also happens to have sold alan wake,and you remember it was great. But watch dogs isn't. So you swear you won't buy anything from X ever. Then Quantum Break comes along, made by remedy, sold by X. and you miss on a good game. TL;DR, Sam Lake explains it better: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm8PP-Ic240[/media] [URL="http://shop.ubi.com/store/ubiemea/en_IE/pd/ThemeID.8605700/productID.283854500/FIFA-14"]Also, ubi sells fifa 14, an ea made game wtf?[/URL]

I won't boycott ANY company because that means I'd be fucking over the developers, who if they made a good game but had to seek a publisher, have done nothing wrong.

floating muskets in assassins creed 3: avant garde game design

[QUOTE=Mister_Jack;45350225]I'm also not denying that the CTE fixes make the game infinitely better. It just feels like too little too late when this has obviously been a problem since three games ago, with plenty people having paid 300 bucks for said line of games. You said BC2 didn't has these problems. 30 is still slow imo. Kill trades and desync still exist, albeit to a much smaller degree. It's also hard to get excited about graphics when 'normal' games that come out nowadays just now look about as good as Crysis.[/QUOTE] wow there really is no winning pissants today. if you fuck up and spend a shit ton of time trying to listen to people in the community and you do fix the game, you're still shit. There are completely broken games out there but to say that BF4 is bad just because it had a shitty launch, and to also say its still broken than you must be blind or ignorant as fuck. Its extremely hard to bump up tickrates with games like battlefield due to the stress of how much stuff happens on said server with 64 players.

[QUOTE=codemaster85;45352441]wow there really is no winning pissants today. if you fuck up and spend a shit ton of time trying to listen to people in the community and you do fix the game, you're still shit. There are completely broken games out there but to say that BF4 is bad just because it had a shitty launch, and to also say its still broken than you must be blind or ignorant as fuck. Its extremely hard to bump up tickrates with games like battlefield due to the stress of how much stuff happens on said server with 64 players.[/QUOTE] Chill broder. It's all okay. I'd appreciate it if you stop putting words in my mouth, though. I love the Battlefield series and I love Battlefield 4. That's what makes the 'fuck you' attitude of these publishers all the more insulting.

[QUOTE=LurkyLurker;45350578]Publishers and the developers under them are corrupt to the point of evil. Indies resort to scams and broken games for quick cash. Even if things were to improve, what would really change? Slightly better written shooters? Netcode where desyncs happen only every two hours instead of ten minutes? Companies who instead say "our game will have issues at launch"? Be honest, when is the last time we had a truly great game release? 2000? Gaming is a fundamentally flawed medium and maybe its time to pull the plug before it gets even worse, because it certainly is not going to get any better.[/QUOTE] you again!! [QUOTE=LurkyLurker;45265609]People keep acting like this is new, but companies always lie to you for sales. Remember Half-Life 2's E3 demos? How much of that actually made the final game? Even indies manipulate, cheat and lie to you via kickstarter and early access scams more often than not. No trust should be placed in anyone involved in this industry. The video game industry might just be better off dead at this point. A market crash that takes everything with it, publishers, indies and all. Let em all die. The real, timeless classics will continue to stand without being drowned in the shit made today that gets churned out and forgotten within two years.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=LurkyLurker;44934850]doesn't matter cause its probably just some shill posing as a developer to make people blame execs only for d bad game dev hugboxing needs to stop right now they're lazy, incompetent and just as much to blame as to why watch_dogs=dog_shit[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=LurkyLurker;45133135]Or maybe, just [I]maybe[/I], gamers are universally a vile bunch who wallow in the maggot-ridden vomit-speckled [B]dogshit[/B] that 99.9% of this medium consists of? Maybe they need to be called out and shamed for it? The more I think about it, the more I think that Ebert and Thompson might have had a good point about this medium having no artistic merit whatsoever. Film proved its artistic worth within a decade or two of its creation. I can't say the same for video games thanks to them being made by and for manchildren.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=LurkyLurker;45066213]Mass Effect was complete dogshit from day one and I want all traces of it burned out of existence. Dead, buried, forgotten.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=LurkyLurker;44954397]i wanna see a comparison between Dog_Shit and Super Mario Brothers the original nes version cause it looks objectively better[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=LurkyLurker;44404704]hahaha you think Kojima isn't an legitimately awful human being that should be tried as a warcriminal himself. You want to start giving this medium some dignity? Start by forcing hacks like Kojima out of it. Stop buying their games. [B]Stop being horrible human beings by not enjoying exploitative trash[/B]. It's not hard.[/QUOTE]

I never buy Ubisoft or EA titles. Shame that ww1 game that just came out is being published by Ubi. I would have bought it on the spot if they didn't have that DRM. Learning that it had Ubisoft DRM from Steam discussions made me not buy that game.

Jim just seems to be hitting the right notes everytime now. The main problem is however that you need to educate people who rarely/never pay attention to gaming news and wouldnt know any better in the first place. You know, the people who usually just buy the usual Call of Duty, Battlefield and FIFA/Sports game and never leave that comfort zone for whatever reason. Those are EA's (and the other big publishers) main target. If they get wiser to the nonsense they do, then we might not see so much nonsense. I doubt another "Crash" will happen, i seriously do. There are too many issues to contend with right now and we can only deal with them one at a time. I suppose purposely buying games preowned isnt always a bad thing. [QUOTE=Juniez;45353269]Nonsense written by LurkyLurker[/QUOTE] It's like i'm reading something fresh out of /v/. Love the optimism here.