TRI wrote:
Sorry I am not going to drink the EA KOOL AIDE.
What about random Kool Aid that shows up in your mailbox from an unmarked address? What is your favorite flavor?
If it makes you happy to take shots at me to please the EA faithful then do it because it really does not bother me.
I have been critical of EA and I do not like to critisize but I have really strong feelings about the way EA conducts business. I feel that it is important to take a stand and do what is right. There have been times in the past where I have gone too far and I try to avoid that, but EA really does encourage scorn. I do not feel exclusive licenses are good for the industry or jobs because more developers are needed not fewer. When a company chooses to spend many times more money on a license rather than improving the game it is probably because they do not have much confidence in the product quality. It should not be that just because a company has more money that it should so easily be able to buy out competition or eliminate it though very controversial business moves. I want people to be free but with freedom comes responsibility and justice.
Here's a quote from Jeremy Strauser in a Madden 360 preview in the latest Game Informer:
Explaining why some features had to be dropped, producer Jeremy Strauser told us, "We're starting from scratch; this isn't a port [with better resolution]. Because of the way the game is being architected from the ground up, we don't bring things forward like Owner mode, Storyline Central, Madden cards, create-a-team, or create-a-playbook. Those are all the things that we have to build [again] piece by piece. The goal is to build the next-gen football engine, so this is going to be the foundation for NCAA, NFL Street, Arena Football, etc. We want this to be the football engine for the next decade."
I am a patient boy.
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait.
My time is water down a drain.
ScoopBrady wrote:Here's a quote from Jeremy Strauser in a Madden 360 preview in the latest Game Informer:
Explaining why some features had to be dropped, producer Jeremy Strauser told us, "We're starting from scratch; this isn't a port [with better resolution]. Because of the way the game is being architected from the ground up, we don't bring things forward like Owner mode, Storyline Central, Madden cards, create-a-team, or create-a-playbook. Those are all the things that we have to build [again] piece by piece. The goal is to build the next-gen football engine, so this is going to be the foundation for NCAA, NFL Street, Arena Football, etc. We want this to be the football engine for the next decade."
Translation of Strauser's quote: "We are holding back features so we can re-introduce them as new innovations that our marketing and PR departments can trumpet as more significant than the polio vaccine over the next decade. We know it's a crock of sh*t, but that's the industry, baby!"
Take care,
PK
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Except that some of the animations we've seen in the clips look EXACTLY like animations from the current generation. I realize they may be just reusing mo-cap data but still programming from scratch. It's just that it makes them look like they're lying out of the butts.
My money's on the 360 getting the short end of the resources so they can focus more on the PS3.
Some of the art may be the same but the code has to be different since we're talking about new chips, new GPU, etc.
However, saying this will be the football engine for the next decade is what many people feared.
They build the engine once and then add yearly tweaks and then features.
Their business model is based on annual sales so that doesn't leave room for rearchitecting the core engine every year.
Just as we suspected, meaning it will look pretty much the same 5 years from now and people will be complaining about the models, AI and poor physics still.
Unfortunately, if you want to look for games pushing the technology, it's not going to be Madden or sports games in general. Just as it was this generation.
people, we all need to not purchase EA games new. The only way EA will ever drastically change/improve a game (tripleplay to MVP) is for there to be a big drop off in sales.
Sure we are the hardcore and it's the casual masses that make up most of the sales. But if in general people make an effort to not support EA (IF you really want an EA game, just wait and buy it used so they don't get your money), they will change their ways.
The only way used games are much cheaper than new ones is if there's a big supply of them. That means a lot of them have to be bought new and then sold used.
If it's only like a $5 difference, most people will buy new. However, people can also wait for games to be discounted after a few weeks too. Especially if they try to sell for $60 at release.
Hopefully, Fry's will have sales but it's a loss-leader strategy to get people into the stores. They may do that with current gen games because there's a much bigger market but not so with next gen games on a system which just launched and thus doesn't have as big of a market.
wco81 wrote:Hopefully, Fry's will have sales but it's a loss-leader strategy to get people into the stores. They may do that with current gen games because there's a much bigger market but not so with next gen games on a system which just launched and thus doesn't have as big of a market.
They've had deals on PSP games since it's launch so I would imagine it will continue with 360 games.
I am a patient boy.
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait.
My time is water down a drain.
I have been accused of many things but that would be a first.
