Fresh off the NPD Group's November 2010 report, EA has made public its sales results for arcade racing title Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.
EA's critically acclaimed Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit sold 417,000 units in the U.S. during November 2010. HULIQ puts the number in context--though Hot Pursuit outsold Gran Turismo 5 in November, things look less promising for the title come next month.
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.
EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.
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.
Its really sad that this game isnt selling as well as it should be, my guess is not too many people know about all the changes to the game, many are seeing the name NFS and thinking back to the past like 5 games and remembering that they were all pretty bad
Really great game. It's much like the old titles of the franchise, like the old Hot Pursuit or High Stakes. It's so nostalgic! And the Autolog is a gread addiction to the series.
a million odd worldwide is fine no need to worry about its sales.
it will have legs on ps3 as it gets cheaper and people stop playing gt5 so much, criterion has a pretty loyal fanbase.
I got this, and GT5. (and Sly Cooper, Prince of Persia, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom and Splatterhouse) just recently.
I barely play NFS. It doesn't suck, it just feels kind of... soulless... lacks character... it's okay... I guess. I mean you get a good sensation of speed and everything looks great. But it's all incredibly scripted, even the AI is banded (still very easy though). The cars feel... meh, some of them feel okay to drive but others feel unresponsive and a chore, since at worse they're high end sports cars... that surely shoudln't be the case.
The map design and interface kinda sucks too. I mean it's just a map then you hit press X on the events on it... a Dirt 2 type presentation would have been much better. The courses themselves are generally lifeless, road after road, the only changes are enviromental. The roads are almost always the same, constantly. As are the shortcuts. Shortcuts are almost always viable, or inviable, never a strategic decision dependant on the vehcile you're using. They also aren't interesting, no air time, always just trunddling across a dirt surface rather than the road...
Not that it's a real bad game. It just lacks content, isn't presented brilliantly, and it's gameplay lacks depth. It's fun in short bursts... just my opinion mind you,.