EA apologizes for screwing gamers

by **JWL3** on Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:05 pm

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=17313

Read it all. The CEO of EA apologizes for its past of buying game developers, disbanding the teams into separate divisions, and thus ruining developers like Origin Systems (Wing Commander).

He shockingly holds out EA Canada as worthy of praise.

I'm still waiting for the apology for NBA Live.

by **Beatboxer** on Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:07 pm

Thanks for the heads up, bro. :wink:

by **Fitzy** on Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:48 am

didnt they apologise last year about live 07? then they put it to them to make this years live the best ever?

:shake:

YouTube · by **ThaLiveKing** on Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:43 am

Those guys should know that it isn't always about the money. . . But the deeper in business you get, I guess you start to care less about what the consumer wants and what's best for business. Good games will always sell.

by **JWL3** on Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:12 pm

Fitzy wrote:didnt they apologise last year about live 07? then they put it to them to make this years live the best ever?

That's what pissed me off the most about Live 08. They followed a crap year with another crap year, promising up and down that this year was gonna be different and it would be much improved. Every year, they trot out some new feature or whatever (freestyle, improved D, superstar moves, hotspots). Can the bling and just give us fundamentals.

by **benji** on Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:26 pm

They were most likely talking about the 360 version with their promises. HB Studios didn't really make any promises about the PC version.

by **Beatboxer** on Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:10 pm

I hope, HB studios won't develop the NBA Live 08 this year. (If this happens, likely we will see a next-gen port.)
or
At least, they can develop the game with a different engine and no bugs.

As far as i know, they have published a new studio. Maybe this will help developing better games.

by **Patr1ck** on Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:35 am

I hope, HB studios won't develop the NBA Live 08 this year

Too late for that, they already did and you've been playing it.

by **Beatboxer** on Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:44 am

Pdub wrote:
I hope, HB studios won't develop the NBA Live 08 this year

Too late for that, they already did and you've been playing it.

Oops, sorry.

Of course i mean 09. I mean, i hope HB won't develop the NBA Live 09 this year.
:wink:

by **JWL3** on Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:07 pm

I wouldn't trust these losers to program Pong. They'd screw up that gameplay somehow.

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