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07-09-2007, 01:44 PM
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| Never give up. Never surrender, you fucks!  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Los Angeles
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07-09-2007, 01:45 PM
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| Thizzelle Washington  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Central Valley, Cali
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+1 Internets  | Madden has been crap for a while now. They want other companies to be innovated, but they buy the fucking exclusive so other companies cannot make a game to compete with them for the last 2 years. Its all bullshit. THey just wanna sell more crap in pretty packages. |
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07-09-2007, 01:47 PM
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| Safety Dance  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: West Lafayette
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| Eh, EA has really changed its tune the past year, and I've subsequently altered my perception of the company. They're still pushing out crap and sequels, but they've branched out and started putting effort into some of their things: enter Madden 07 for Wii. You can't wholely hate the company backing Rock Band. |
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07-09-2007, 01:49 PM
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| Still not the Abyss  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Arizona
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Anyone remember that post here a few years back by an ex EA employee and their wife about their horror stories at working for EA? | |
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07-09-2007, 01:50 PM
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| Never give up. Never surrender, you fucks! Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Los Angeles
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| EA fucked the walrus with respect to the Ultima series so I just stopped caring about them or buying their games.
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07-09-2007, 03:48 PM
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| Feisty  Join Date: Jan 2002
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| Casual gaming is where all the money is right now. This goes beyond the Wii and into the success of various casual PC games, cell phone games, web based casual games, etc. The industry as a whole is trying to shift gears and reach out to as broad an audience as possible (i.e., people who wouldn't ordinarily be gamers unless they picked up Tetris, or Wii, or whatever). I'm not going to opine on whether this casual focus is a good or a bad thing for the industry as a whole. I'm just saying, is all. |
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07-09-2007, 04:28 PM
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| Forum Janitor  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Detroit
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What sucks is that as more money is invested into the casual, easy, simple games, less is invested into the kind of games that are interesting to the people who have really liked electronic games for the past few decades. I really hope that complicated games and games that require skill to win still have enough of a market to warrant a large enough budget. | |
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07-09-2007, 04:41 PM
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| Feisty Join Date: Jan 2002
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| Personally speaking, I think there will always be games made for hardcore/involved gamers. But I think we're going to see a lot fewer of them in the coming decade, and a lot less variety in terms of who's making them. Big niche players like Square are going to continue to do just fine. But the days of the boutique or upstart genre developer are in serious jeopardy. I think we're going to see casual and non-casual games consolidated among a handful of big publishers, and this will be bad for those of us who like a wide and diverse selection.
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