With less than a fortnight until release, Bioware have managed to turn many a fan against themselves and their forthcoming blockbuster, Mass Effect 3. For those that don’t yet know, Bioware plan to release day one downloadable content for ME3 which consists of a character that most would consider integral to the ME universe. Unlike Batman Arkham City or even ME2, this DLC doesn’t come free for those purchasing the game brand new. Strangely, it’s only open to people that buy the special edition – this is where the controversy was born.
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.
It occurs to me that if the Prothean is present in the game but is non-playable, that his presence is or could be considered as advertising of the worst kind for the DLC.
Was this article rushed? It felt rushed. I reached the end expecting to hear more, but no, that was it. Not the best article I've read this week, honestly. I've seen longer and more detailed, thought-filled opinions done in N4G's own comment sections than what this short 'article' offers. The structure for how he brings his question across is a bit odd as well.
First he says "we thought the DLC was cut from the disc", but "then we found out it was made after the game was finished" basically saying that it wasn't cut from the disc. Then ends it with saying the dlc was cut from the full game. First he thought they cut it, then they say they didn't and he implies he believes them, but then follow it up with saying that they did cut it? It's kinda confusing. You either accept BioWare's word on it, or you don't. Simple enough.
Like I said, it felt rushed. Felt like he had more to say on the subject and was going somewhere with it, but then kinda abruptly stopped.
Yes
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Question: Would gamers rather this DLC remained exclusive to those who purchase the CE? or available to all gamers including those who chose not to get the CE?
It could have very well be one of those DLC only for CE such as Batman AC Penguin's Lounge.