Valve: EA is Not Evil

therealwillie - 541 days 4 hours ago

yes there is the odd game that comes out good... burnout is great. theres not that many good games coming from e.a inhouse, but thats neither here nor there
now if valve and e.a have such good relations then why don't they sort out the orange box............ valve blames e.a, e.a blames valve round and round the merry go round, this is nothing but bullllllllll

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Statix - 541 days 4 hours ago

I don't care bad or good their products are (although, in the case of EA they're generally pretty mediocre). It's their business practices and mentality of buying out the competition that DISGUST me.

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Infernus - 541 days 1 hour ago

EA have released some great games, Burnout Paradise, most of their sports titles, C&C3, then we have Mirror's Edge and Dead Space coming out.

So they CAN make good games but they often seem to prefer to buy out the companies that are making good games and publish their games and make money that way. They bought out Bullfrog (Stopped them making Dungeon Keeper 3 and put the devs to work on FIFA or whatever else they had lined up in their sports department), then they got Westwood (Many devs broke away and set up Petroglyph who've been quite successful with Star Wars: Empire at War and Universe at War: Earth Assault) but I speak from personal experience in the C&C forums there was a LOT of hate over there for a long time, there's still an overall feeling of a lack of respect for EA there. There were some threads filled with insults and the like about EA, Westwood and C&C3. They calmed down eventually but EA brought it upon themselves.

I could go on, but it's just plain boring listing things. Personally I don't hate EA, I do like what they've done with the C&C franchise and Burnout games. However, I didn't appreciate their influence on Timesplitters: Future Perfect (Preferred the arcady feel of TS2), haven't bought a FIFA title for over 5 years (Preferred the arcady feel of PES) and although they've been relatively relaxed about Spore, Maxis was yet another company they bought out and pumped out Sims games like nobody's business lol. Even though Sims 2 was a good game I have to admit.

EA is the definition of a Marmite company. You either like them or you hate them, sometimes you'll agree with the devs and like their games sometimes they go in completely the wrong direction and you'll hat them for it. There's no steady ground with EA really, I think hate is a strong term here but if people have been screwed over by them I can completely understand why they'd feel that way.

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mistertwoturbo - 540 days 23 hours ago

Infernus said it best.

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RecSpec - 541 days 4 hours ago

It's only one game...(OK three games)

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deeznuts - 541 days 2 hours ago

They also bribed Gabe Newell with a box of twinkies, just in case the family threat didn't work ....

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Hagaf22 - 541 days 6 hours ago

ea is not evil, neither is valve, they are fantastic companies with the consumers every want and need in mind. they would never do anything other than what the fans want

/end sarcasm

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Dark General - 541 days 5 hours ago

Per se, but i do dislike em. I know the exclusive deal to the NFL rights, the NFL is as much to play as EA but got damn they brought almost every sport. What's left only the NBA? I dislike what they have done with Madden and Live to a lesser extent by pushing out damn there the same thing each year. I still like some of their games (Mirrors Edge, Black, Facebreaker) but i still harbor disdain for them because of the NFL thing. Their game quality is getting better though.

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AllroundGamer - 541 days 5 hours ago

couldn't have said it better, + they share the same lame programmers, that have problems with the optimizations.

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