Ironstar: As a fan of the UFC, I thought it'd be hard for me to come to terms with the fact that the title of this article is 100% percent true. I mean I do love to watch MMA, and though "STRIKEFORCE" is not my choice brand of MMA to view, I still respect what they do. But it's no secret that the UFC is far more entertaining to watch than any other fighting that's out there, hands down.
But on the video game scene, the tides have turned completely as the game with the UFC license is getting ready to start taking some serious L's for times to come if they don't make some HUGE changes. EA Sports' MMA is what a next-gen mixed martial arts fighting game should be. You want to talk about the total package for mixed martial arts fighting, you got it right here. Period.
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
For me i think UFC is by far better than MMA i cant wait for MMA to fail and iam talking about the games not the actual UFC and MMA
UFC 2010 was pretty much the same game as the last one.....not really a bad thing, but not really a whole lot different.....I'm all about the fight night series, so I gotta feeling this is gonna be great......
I'm not into button-mash fighting, the analog control is where its at....EA has gotten it down to a science with their years of playing with the fight night series....so the MMA game controls will be awesome as well.....
I agree with the author too, it's too bad EA and UFC could'nt have just struck a deal from the get-go...but EA did'nt want anything to do with MMA a couple of years ago, but now they see how popular it is and...etc....etc....
"I think MMA is set to truly take a catastrophic gorilla shit on it's competitor."
OT: MMA is gonna be a whole different beast. i know EA turned down UFC whenever they came to them or whatever, but i dont care.
This really just makes me want to go play Clay Fighter.
Wait a minute? Where's your proof?
I've read what you're typing but from the videos I've seen of MMA, I'm not impressed.
Perhaps you should have reworded your title. MMA currently does not come close to looking as good as UFC does. Will it play better? Guess we'll have to wait until the game comes out to find that out.
BTW...I think you need some glasses and if you already have those, perhaps you should consider retiring from game reviews. Nothing in this article except for the Dana White bit is based on fact!
If you would have done your homework, you would know that Dana White and EA had talks previously but EA did not want to pursue anything. That's why White hates EA and I can't blame him. Now they want a piece of the MMA pie too?
Your "POINT" FAILS!