No pre-orders, boys.
Just play something better and skip buying it all together.
I know helldivers 2 had a ton of controversy around the PSN login but otherwise it’s a fantastic game. Been loving it.
Likewise. Helldivers 2 has proven there’s some life left in the otherwise moribund live service category, by doing something different and most importantly fun.
Somehow I think battlefield will fail to learn anything from Helldivers success and end up churning out another over monitzed, rather dull, addition to the category.
Battlefield has probably been in development for 4 years now and their C-Suite doesn’t know shit about dick. That ship turns like the titanic - It’s going down.
They did their damnedest to kill it with terrible decision making, though…
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Isn’t Helldivers 2 kind of a live service game too? I only tangentially know about it.
Yes in that there is a new battlepass every month with new guns and armor to unlock.
No in that you can earn the battlepass with in game currency and never have to give them more than the $40 that the game cost to have a ton of fun.
Beyond that - They’ve taken live service games to a better place. There’s an ongoing galactic campaign and the individual missions you run contribute to galactic objectives which have real consequences in game. They have a dedicated “Game Master” like a DND Dungeon Master who decides when to release new units, what happens when we succeed and how to punish failure.
And most importantly: It’s a lot of fun.
Battle bit.
256 player servers are just insane still. It’s got the gameplay without the fancy graphics.
Battle Bit is dope
256 players is definitely more than you’ll ever need but I do miss the 1000v1000 mayhem of Planetside 2.
this will be said every single time a new big game is about to come out and mostly everybody still won’t listen. why?
…no like i’m genuinely asking, why
Because most people aren’t in places like this. Most people don’t care about what the companies do, if they even know. I work next to a guy who buys the new call of duty every time, hates it, and buys the next anyway. Because it’s call of duty. He doesn’t care about mergers, or shutdowns, or what an Activision is.
He plays his games and that’s it. Folks like us, who are concerned with how the sausage gets made, we’re not big enough to make a difference.
It will be said to influence the decision of people who are new to the gaming scene and haven’t been repeatedly burned. Not everyone is a doom scroller like us.
Micro transactions all the way down, I would expecting nothing less from EA.
“Person who relies on stock price says positive thing about product!”
Well golly gee I believe em! It’s gonna be the first Superperfect AAAAA™ game!
So basically dead on arrival
So, broken and buggy game with battle-pass and a perfectly functioning store from day one? Of course, a promise to fix the game with a roadmap within a week of launch. Yeah, a tremendous live service indeed.
They meant it like trump did
That fuckface ruined so many words forever: tremendous, fantastic, huge, glorious, trump (the lower-case verb)
Presidential
I’m sure they liked that kind of language in the earnings call but it sounds pretty gross anywhere else.
I trust that about as much as Ubi’s CEO telling us about the first “AAAA Game”
Why does it feel like EA tries really hard to kill off franchises with a loyal fanbase by constantly playing limbo under the lowering bar?
A “tremendous turn off” he says?
Let’s go boys! Time to drop trou, get out your wallet, and pre-order the super platinum edition with a hilarious camo, useless rifle, and the day-1 DLC included.
I really liked Bad Company 2. After that, meh.
There’s no way he’s dogfooding the micro-transactions. It’s impossible for him to do so.
“Tremendous live service for my wallet”
In today’s earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson says he has been playing the next Battlefield game with the development team and it will be a “tremendous live service.”
“a tremendous live service” said Wilson, “…but a fairly terrible gaming experience.” 😁
Honestly, I think he may be right with his statement in so much as he was using Webster’s second definition for tremendous.
“In his first year as CEO, Wilson initiated a “player-first” corporate strategy, and offered more free-to-play games and in-app purchase options.[7] In a move towards a transformation from physical software to digital, he also greatly increased EA’s digital offerings, and launched EA Access, a subscription-based digital service for Xbox One players that allows unlimited play across a selection of EA titles.[7][8] Electronic Arts had a large revenue increase and its stock price doubled in 2014.[7][9]” -wiki
So basically this guy is behind EAs thirst for micro transactions and getting rid of physical copies. Anything he says in cringe.
