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EA's Busy Week

Posted by Zonk on from the with-i-was-that-productive dept.

Electronic Arts has had a pretty good week. Gamespot is reporting on a number of things that seem to be going their way. Earlier in the week the software publisher led a games related stock surge, with the company up almost three dollars at the end of yesterday's trading. Capitalizing on their foot in the door as regards next-gen software, the company is planning to develop games in Japan so as to get a better feel for the Japanese marketplace. They already have a Japan-specific title in the works there for a yet-to-be-announced console. Finally, EA and John Madden have come to an agreement ensuring that the 'Madden Football' series will be around for a few more years. The sports magnate has signed away his likeness to the series for another multiyear contract.

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  1. BF2 by wyldeone · · Score: 3, Informative

    What? No mention of the huge dabacle that is Battlefield 2?

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    1. Re:BF2 by MMaestro · · Score: 2, Informative
      Of course, I came to the games late, only starting to play BFV 3 months ago, and never really playing BF1942 much at all.

      So you basicly skipped the entire Doom series, Quake series, Half-Life 1 and 2, the Deux Ex series and Unreal Tournament series? Thats the kind of statement that causes gamers to scream 'n00b!'.

      BF2 is buggy, crashes on some computers, very very laggy, unbalanced and rewards the hardcore with weapons that throw the idea of individuality out the window. (Medics getting rifles? Wth?!) The anti-team killing system is too strict against commanders (if people run into their own artillery its their own damned fault), vehicles are still overpowered (a good helicopter pilot can rip most ground troops to shreds in seconds) and the game feels like a fanmade mod that spent too long in development. (Nice graphics, now how about something beyond an extra 2 classes and a 'commander' system?)

    2. Re:BF2 by kilonad · · Score: 3, Informative

      The debacle is that there's a ton of bugs in the in-game server browser, and it was released without third-party browser support. Plus, EA had oversold their servers and there was a ton of lag (it's not quite as bad now). In order to have a ranked server, you have to pay EA. The patch broke a lot of installations and caused gigantic memory leaks on servers. Great ideas in BF2 (though many that were promised didn't show up in the release), horrible execution.