• EA cans Dead Space over low sales of Dead Space 3
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well at least they probably realize now their mistakes and won't do it again also with sim city drm
[QUOTE=Forumaster;39807985]It's microtransactions in a full price ($60 USD) game. That is what makes it bad. If this were something like an iOS game or F2P MMO, they'd be fine (as long as they weren't Pay2Win of course).[/QUOTE] If you can ignore them does it really matter.
[QUOTE=Darkne55;39808004]well at least they probably realize now their mistakes and won't do it again also with sim city drm[/QUOTE] We said that every single time they fucked up, with Command and Conquer, with Battlefield Heroes, with Black and White, with any game you care to name that EA has touched at some point. They don't learn. They will never learn.
I pose a hypothetical scenario: after EA officially cans it, and, say, 10 million people suddenly purchase DS3 at once, an organized event. Would EA pull some excuse and revive the series or...? Genuinely interested...
Awww, i knew this was coming, but im still sad to see dead space go. wether it had the potential to be milked if successful or not, sending yet another cool sci-fi setting down the pan is never a good thing.
[QUOTE=Siduron;39807808]Dead Space 3 was a huge disappointment for me. My friends and I were expecting coop to be a mindfuck experience but instead got a few copy paste missions with a weak story. As for the main story, it wasn't that good either. I don't even remember the bad guy's name and having to [sp]throw markers at the final boss[/sp] felt like spitting on the series grave.[/QUOTE] They really did drop the ball on the co-op missions. I think you could do different missions in the same exact location like 5-6 times straight.
[url]https://twitter.com/gamasutra/status/308965374483898369[/url] confirmed fake
[QUOTE=RoadOfGirl;39808285][url]https://twitter.com/gamasutra/status/308965374483898369[/url] confirmed fake[/QUOTE] thank god
I'll believe it when EA's account tweets it.
yeah gamasutra regularly lies just for fun
[QUOTE=Forumaster;39807985]It's microtransactions in a full price ($60 USD) game. That is what makes it bad. If this were something like an iOS game or F2P MMO, they'd be fine (as long as they weren't Pay2Win of course).[/QUOTE] the microtransactions arent even noticeable, its two one time 3.5 dollar purchases, for more ingame resources which you can find yourself on your own without paying
I never encountered any microtransations while playing
[QUOTE=Darkne55;39808004]well at least they probably realize now their mistakes and won't do it again[/QUOTE] Ahaha. EA... Learning. You got me good. The problem is, EA keeps fucking with the developers because they think they know what's best. That, in any market similar to a producer/developer, is a formula for disaster. Say you write a book. It sells well, and it's about the untold lives of knights. Great, good. Then your publisher comes in, rattles off some sales crap you don't really care about, and finishes with "Include some more sex in this next one, sex is what sells, boyo!" So you do it, you include a little bit of sex. The quality suffers, but it still sells alright. Kind of. Some people criticize it because it's loosing it's original platform, but hey, there's money, right? Now the publisher comes back a third time. Tells you to make an erotica or you'll be disowned. Not wanting to have your chances canned, you follow through. The book sells terrible. Your writing was terrible. The entire thing brings you great shame. And guess who? The publisher. And what does he say? "It didn't sell that well, was actually pretty bad. I'm sorry, but we're not going to help you out with anymore books. Tough luck." (Books wasn't the best analogy, but still. :v:)
Am I the only one that doesn't see EA as this big evil company ran by satan who ruins anything they look at by making changes?
[QUOTE=Brt5470;39807407]That and I think we're in a huge gaming bubble right now. These companies keep inflating the budgets to insane levels, which require more and more sales to sustain them, + profits.[/QUOTE] Much of what's happening now is similar to what preluded the Gaming Crash of 1982, just on a much larger scale. A crash right now might be good for the industry.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;39807189]it's a shame that a genuinely good game probably sold less copies than it deserved,[/QUOTE] DS3 wasn't genuinely good if the first dead space had been dead space 3 there would never have been a sequel
Also, if I had made a Dead Space game after the first one, it'd actually be good! But because of the publishers, that dream is pooped
EA can go suck a fuck. I had to talk with them on the phone for 45 minutes to activate my copy of Crysis 2. (sigh)
[QUOTE=The freeman;39808343]Am I the only one that doesn't see EA as this big evil company ran by satan who ruins anything they look at by making changes?[/QUOTE] The first part, I agree with you. However they have indeed ruined everything they've taken on with their changes.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;39807360]1. You can, but the fact that they're there in a game like this just shows EA's greed. 2. It may be, but they used a character that never existed, if you have a used copy for PS3/360 you can't play without buying an activation code (more greed), and it also ruins the SP experience because in the cutscenes where Carver shows up, he just pops up out of nowhere and then vanishes into nowhere when it's done. 4. Steam's better. Origin almost never has sales (guess what, more greed). I agree that Dead Space 3 is a good game, but it's a horrible [I]Dead Space[/I] game.[/QUOTE] Goddam, do you guys know any other words besides "greed?" [editline]5th March 2013[/editline] And what cutscenes are you refering to? He's only "popped up" for me while he was in the same room. He's never just randomly apppeared for me.
For the sake of skipping 50 more "RIP DEAD SPACE!!" posts even after this being confirmed fake I'm gonna go ahead and kill this now. [quote]UPDATE: Dino Ignacio, UI Lead at Dead Space developer Visceral Games, has denied today's story about the end of the Dead Space series. "The reports of our death were greatly exaggerated," he [url=https://twitter.com/DinoIgnacio/status/308968215621545984]tweeted.[/url] "Please stand by." Ian Milham, creative director at EA and ex-art director on Dead Space, also took to [url=https://twitter.com/Monkey_Pants]Twitter[/url] to deny the story. "Almost nothing in that article is true," he wrote. Then, in response to a question on Twitter: "I confirm nothing except the hooey in that story." EA's US PR team has reportedly called the VideoGamer.com report "patently false". "While we have not announced sales for Dead Space 3, we are proud of the game and the franchise remains an important IP to EA," an EA spokesperson told Eurogamer.[/quote] [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250647]resume normal dead space discussion here tia[/url]
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