EA's Busy Week

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday July 13, 2005 @09:15AM 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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BF2 by wyldeone · 2005-07-13 09:24 · Score: 3, Informative

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

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In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered as a bad move.
1. Re:BF2 by kilonad · 2005-07-13 10:42 · 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.