Analyst says EA's brand is tarnished; Gamers say "no duh"
A recent story puts out that EA has tarnished its image with crappy games (story: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162530.html).
This has been apparent by most hardcore gamers for a while, especially in their Battlefield games (see how a patch broke the latest, albeit already buggy, Battlefield game).
Its not hard to point out the problem: EA would rather release a game than make sure a quality game goes out. The release now-patch later policy just sucks, often destroying an otherwise good game.
Another problem is the microtransations. EA is laying on the microtransactions heavily (see Battle for Middle Earth 2 on X-Box 360) and seems to be going full bore with it.
EA seems to be trying to win us back (here: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/01/ea-trying-to-win-back-our-hearts/), but I doubt the PR attempt will work unless they actually do something substantiative. We need to see better quality from the largest publisher out there.
This has been apparent by most hardcore gamers for a while, especially in their Battlefield games (see how a patch broke the latest, albeit already buggy, Battlefield game).
Its not hard to point out the problem: EA would rather release a game than make sure a quality game goes out. The release now-patch later policy just sucks, often destroying an otherwise good game.
Another problem is the microtransations. EA is laying on the microtransactions heavily (see Battle for Middle Earth 2 on X-Box 360) and seems to be going full bore with it.
EA seems to be trying to win us back (here: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/01/ea-trying-to-win-back-our-hearts/), but I doubt the PR attempt will work unless they actually do something substantiative. We need to see better quality from the largest publisher out there.
posted by SeanM at 4:13 PM
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