Nerds on the Rocks takes an expanded look on the Battlefield 3 beta in this video cast. With comparisons to the game's Alpha release from over the summer.
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 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.
All I know is that my gut says maybe.
After playing the beta for about 11 hours I would have to say no, Dice was able to test the servers, get feed back on bugs and give gamers a taste of battlefield game play. There were some really bad bugs in it but overall I enjoyed it and see a lot of potential in it to be a great fun experience.
Well..On Consoles the map they chose was a complete mistake. Alot of my friends and I agree that it doesn't capture that BF feel at all. Just mostly corridor with no vehicles. I'm talking besides the glitches/bugs I think the beta turned off new comers.. but IDK,I'm sure it's just Metro.. I'm still sticking to my pre order.
Should of kept it a more closed affair, as any real beta should and only needs to be. A finalised build, should be released as a demo for the masses at a later date.
Seems to me, most of the people upset had unrealistic demands for their hardware (console), the game and of course the beta.
no. imagine if these bugs was in the retail copy. now that would be a mistake. i just hope DICE fixes these bugs.