You're giving them too much credit. They saw how successful the first Star Wars movie was with girls and in their own sad, clumsy way they were trying to attract a female audience.
Now, to be fair, they were doing that out of greed (do you have any idea how much money they could make if they could get girls to play Battlefield games? I'm not even joking).
more a Borderlands type, but BF3 was supposed to be pretty great once the bugs were patched. BF5 lacks content but it's also pretty stable by all accounts. Give it 6 months and it'll probably be a pretty great game and $20 bucks.
because of China. Ford, GM & Chrysler are doing just fine. AMC didn't go bust, they just got bought out, by Chrysler no less. New Coke was more than likely just Coke experimenting with new HFCS formulas. And again, Coke seems to be doing just fine.
All of these companies are doing just fine. Their business practices were often abominable (GM basically folder the company making all the stock worthless except for the wealthiest shareholders), but they did just fine.
As for EA, it's a bad year for everyone what with Red Dead 2 out and Fortnite still a thing. Wait till next year.
Past a certain point of money and power bad decisions don't hurt anymore. The only thing that'll kill a mega corp is a vulture capitalist like Eddie Lambert sucking the life out of Sears. Anything short of that and they're functionally immortal.
that's why. If you want realism go play Red Orchestra.
I haven't heard anyone but hard core incels complain about the women in multiplayer. I _have_ heard some legit complaints about the story mode, but I don't know enough about BF's level of realism to comment on whether they're well founded.
Still, does anyone really buy a BF game for the story mode? Story mode is where an FPS newb learns the mechanics.
If I have 2-3 services to watch my anime and they're $5-$7 month I won't mind. $10-$21 bucks is still a lot cheaper than cable. That works for me because I don't care about sports though and the kid's grown up so I don't need much else.
Where it'll be a problem is if you end up with stuff like CBS' Star Trek show. But even that's not much of a problem. You buy it, watch the season and cancel it until next season. $5 bucks a month might be a bit much for 1 show. But if it's 9 months out of the year that's more like $3.75. That's basically an Amazon rental.
when I finally was old enough to just go to an arcade. My mom was a bit of a nut job and super strict so I could never go as a kid (I was a nerd who listened to his parents, go figure). By the time I was an adult they were gone.
Funny thing, the final nail in the coffin for coin op was smart phones. Apparently they were still bringing in hundreds of millions at laundromats and restaurants and the like right up until smart phones got cheap. I remember all of the sudden you could pick up a Neo-Geo cabinet for $0-$200 bucks depending on condition (sadly I didn't have a place for one at the time and they've since become collectable again and are pushing $600+).
it's pissed off the right wing who saw it as an attack on rural culture and conservative values. The antagonist is an authoritarian religious crack pot modeled after Clive Bundy for Pete's sake.
Now, you're probably right that some of the most extreme SJWs were upset over FC5's stereotypical depiction of evangelicals (these are the same folks who defend Islam as a religion of peace and freedom when their bible is chock full of violence & misogyny). But you can find a crack pot on the left willing to say anything just like you can find guys like this on the right.
They're all a side show. There are bigger issues. In this case the bigger issue is that BF1 was pretty great and was $5 bucks, Red Dead 2 just came out and Fortnite's free and runs on a Potato and BF5 was yet another unfinished $60 dollar title.
It can take months to get the paperwork done. Good friend tried to get it between jobs and by the time the paperwork came the new job's insurance kicked in. It was lucky they didn't need insurance at that time.
You still have to rest and debug it. And they can't risk breaking it with Ray tracing. Nvidia would be pissed and they need a good relationship with the largest video card manufacturer.
I'm trapped by our healthcare system. With the ACA under attack I can't risk leaving, and even is I could I'd be without healthcare for the 90 to 180 days most jobs make you wait for benefits. I'm not saying noncompetes don't suck, but I've got bigger fish to fry.
but you know what, only about 10% of Call of Duty players finish story mode. I couldn't find BF stats but I'm guessing it's the same (they're in the same genre and are basically the Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter of the military shooter world, discuss among yourselves which is MK and which is SF).
The sales suck because:
1. It went up against Rockstar's Red Dead. Everybody was gonna take a bath this year no matter what. It's like when a new Elder Scrolls comes out, there's only so many hours in the day and everybody is busy playing that.
2. The game's unfinished (it's missing half it's modes) so folks are playing BF1, which was $5 bucks on Origin recently. I'm guessing the last minute push to put Ray Tracing in is to blame.
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and managed to be the best selling Far Cry in history. Gamers will put their dislikes and politics aside if you bring a good game. But if you bring a mediocre one while they're 50 hours into a 200 Red Dead play through expect to get hosed.
On the plus side no Rockstar games in 2019 (I'm not a fan of Red Dead & GTA) so there's a ton of great games coming out. The rest of the game industry noticed a new Rockstar game and planned their releases accordingly, but that doesn't work for annual & bi-annual franchises. You can't risk your player base getting out of the habit of buying this years release. Hell, if the community should be mad it's about that crap.
for not getting the finished game out in time. Half the modes are missing and there's not a lot of reason to stop playing BF1. Also they're the first to market with ray tracing which probably took a lot of development time away right at the end, but then that tech turned out to be a dud with $1000 cards that struggle to maintain 60 fps at 1080p with the feature turned on.
Far Cry 5 showed that if the games good gamers will buy it anyway, controversy be damned.
It's EA's competitor to Unreal. They just never got it off the ground. I don't think that's because Frostbite is bad so much as because Unreal is good. Doesn't hurt that Unreal is the established player in this space so it's got a ton more optimizations.
Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and ended up the best selling entry in the series. It's not the SJWs ruining things, it's the BF3 launch all over (minus the worst of the bugs).
BF5's missing key modes that have been around for ages with a bunch of promises to fix it later. Oh, and the single player is another 3-4 hour snoozefest (though at least it has one).
If they wanted to do early access they should have called it that. As it is they released a $60 title with about the same content you can get for free from Fortnite. The realistic art style might have carried it if they'd released a finished product but, well, they didn't.
And besides, that SJW controversy was mostly cooked up by the Youtube outrage engine looking for something to complain about. If EA's numbskull marketers had just kept their mouth shut it would have fizzled out, but that was the point. They got a ton of free publicity on what's little more than this years entry into a tired genre.
one the right wing press ran with heavily. It's not an uncommon thing and I can't tell if there's anything to the stories. Too often when you've got a kid not getting treatment it's because of religious parents who want to take them home and pray until they die. There's a sizeable portion of folks on the right wing that support allowing this. Some of them are insane but well meaning but there's quite a few who are just using it as one more distraction and one more thing to get the rubes worked up about.
It's frustrating because that kind of propaganda can take already unstable people who aren't getting the treatment they need and push them over the edge. You get it a lot with abortion and there's lots of abortion doctors who routinely fear for their lives, especially down south.
That said, like I said I can't tell if the Pelletier case is another example of that or if it's a real case of a hospital overreaching it's mandate. I'm inclined to think the former though as the few cases I've read about where the parents said "We just want to take our child to another doctor" it later came out they were lying.
send meter maids around to collect the scooters that are illegally parked and auction them off. This is what most municipalities are doing and it pretty much would wreck their business model, which they seem to be aware of.
I don't necessarily think this is a bad idea. It could potentially make commuting by bus viable in major cities that were laid out with cars in mind and do so long before self driving cars are a thing. But more thought needs to be given to it.
That makes sense. There's only 2 outcomes for them and The Wall, neither of them good:
1. Wall works, they're out of the job. And yes, the various private security Unions think about this. One of the big reasons we can't get marijuana decriminalized is the prison guard union campaigns heavily against it (which as a pro-Union lefty kinda breaks my mind, but such is reality).
2. Wall doesn't work, we just wasted $25-$50 billion dollars and they look like idiots.
So yeah, Wall is bad juju if you make your living catching illegals.
What's interesting is the change. It's not like the two points above have gone away. If I had to guess the GOP promised their leadership something.
it's only my coworker's insistence on dropping crap on my desk that keeps my office from being paperless. For me I hate the stuff. I can't search it. I hate holding pens and pencils and it's a huge waste of money.
and overstay their visit. But even if the goal is no longer to stop the flow of illegals (which is how The Wall was sold to me) but instead of make border patrol's life easier it's no good. For one thing there's ladders. For another it's pretty easy to climb a fence.
As others have pointed out Israel doesn't have a lot of wall or fence. Unless you're gonna station somebody at every inch of fence they're just gonna go over it. Israel's solution is snipers and a willingness to kill. I suppose we could do that.
it's not interfering with Latin American countries for the sake of oil profits, cheap labor and our stupid, anti-left wing drug war.
If you want folks to stop streaming over the boarder make it so their countries aren't hell holes. Those people in the Caravans are refugees from political violence America caused by destabilizing their governments. Reign the CIA and the war hawks in.
would beg to differ. As would any air traveler who's stuck waiting in line because they're closing terminals due to a TSA shortage. Oh, and anyone who goes to public parks. And there's a ton of government web sites down.
But of course you know all this and are just trolling. I shouldn't feed the trolls, but there's a slim chance someone might believe you. There's a mountain of stuff private industry won't do because it's not profitable enough but it still needs doing.
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You're giving them too much credit. They saw how successful the first Star Wars movie was with girls and in their own sad, clumsy way they were trying to attract a female audience.
Now, to be fair, they were doing that out of greed (do you have any idea how much money they could make if they could get girls to play Battlefield games? I'm not even joking).
more a Borderlands type, but BF3 was supposed to be pretty great once the bugs were patched. BF5 lacks content but it's also pretty stable by all accounts. Give it 6 months and it'll probably be a pretty great game and $20 bucks.
that lots of people are opting to play as females?
because of China. Ford, GM & Chrysler are doing just fine. AMC didn't go bust, they just got bought out, by Chrysler no less. New Coke was more than likely just Coke experimenting with new HFCS formulas. And again, Coke seems to be doing just fine.
All of these companies are doing just fine. Their business practices were often abominable (GM basically folder the company making all the stock worthless except for the wealthiest shareholders), but they did just fine.
As for EA, it's a bad year for everyone what with Red Dead 2 out and Fortnite still a thing. Wait till next year.
Past a certain point of money and power bad decisions don't hurt anymore. The only thing that'll kill a mega corp is a vulture capitalist like Eddie Lambert sucking the life out of Sears. Anything short of that and they're functionally immortal.
that's why. If you want realism go play Red Orchestra.
I haven't heard anyone but hard core incels complain about the women in multiplayer. I _have_ heard some legit complaints about the story mode, but I don't know enough about BF's level of realism to comment on whether they're well founded.
Still, does anyone really buy a BF game for the story mode? Story mode is where an FPS newb learns the mechanics.
If I have 2-3 services to watch my anime and they're $5-$7 month I won't mind. $10-$21 bucks is still a lot cheaper than cable. That works for me because I don't care about sports though and the kid's grown up so I don't need much else.
Where it'll be a problem is if you end up with stuff like CBS' Star Trek show. But even that's not much of a problem. You buy it, watch the season and cancel it until next season. $5 bucks a month might be a bit much for 1 show. But if it's 9 months out of the year that's more like $3.75. That's basically an Amazon rental.
when I finally was old enough to just go to an arcade. My mom was a bit of a nut job and super strict so I could never go as a kid (I was a nerd who listened to his parents, go figure). By the time I was an adult they were gone.
Funny thing, the final nail in the coffin for coin op was smart phones. Apparently they were still bringing in hundreds of millions at laundromats and restaurants and the like right up until smart phones got cheap. I remember all of the sudden you could pick up a Neo-Geo cabinet for $0-$200 bucks depending on condition (sadly I didn't have a place for one at the time and they've since become collectable again and are pushing $600+).
it's pissed off the right wing who saw it as an attack on rural culture and conservative values. The antagonist is an authoritarian religious crack pot modeled after Clive Bundy for Pete's sake.
Now, you're probably right that some of the most extreme SJWs were upset over FC5's stereotypical depiction of evangelicals (these are the same folks who defend Islam as a religion of peace and freedom when their bible is chock full of violence & misogyny). But you can find a crack pot on the left willing to say anything just like you can find guys like this on the right.
They're all a side show. There are bigger issues. In this case the bigger issue is that BF1 was pretty great and was $5 bucks, Red Dead 2 just came out and Fortnite's free and runs on a Potato and BF5 was yet another unfinished $60 dollar title.
It can take months to get the paperwork done. Good friend tried to get it between jobs and by the time the paperwork came the new job's insurance kicked in. It was lucky they didn't need insurance at that time.
You still have to rest and debug it. And they can't risk breaking it with Ray tracing. Nvidia would be pissed and they need a good relationship with the largest video card manufacturer.
I'm trapped by our healthcare system. With the ACA under attack I can't risk leaving, and even is I could I'd be without healthcare for the 90 to 180 days most jobs make you wait for benefits. I'm not saying noncompetes don't suck, but I've got bigger fish to fry.
but you know what, only about 10% of Call of Duty players finish story mode. I couldn't find BF stats but I'm guessing it's the same (they're in the same genre and are basically the Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter of the military shooter world, discuss among yourselves which is MK and which is SF).
The sales suck because:
1. It went up against Rockstar's Red Dead. Everybody was gonna take a bath this year no matter what. It's like when a new Elder Scrolls comes out, there's only so many hours in the day and everybody is busy playing that.
2. The game's unfinished (it's missing half it's modes) so folks are playing BF1, which was $5 bucks on Origin recently. I'm guessing the last minute push to put Ray Tracing in is to blame.
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and managed to be the best selling Far Cry in history. Gamers will put their dislikes and politics aside if you bring a good game. But if you bring a mediocre one while they're 50 hours into a 200 Red Dead play through expect to get hosed.
On the plus side no Rockstar games in 2019 (I'm not a fan of Red Dead & GTA) so there's a ton of great games coming out. The rest of the game industry noticed a new Rockstar game and planned their releases accordingly, but that doesn't work for annual & bi-annual franchises. You can't risk your player base getting out of the habit of buying this years release. Hell, if the community should be mad it's about that crap.
for not getting the finished game out in time. Half the modes are missing and there's not a lot of reason to stop playing BF1. Also they're the first to market with ray tracing which probably took a lot of development time away right at the end, but then that tech turned out to be a dud with $1000 cards that struggle to maintain 60 fps at 1080p with the feature turned on.
Far Cry 5 showed that if the games good gamers will buy it anyway, controversy be damned.
spawn campers and aim bots were on the beaches of Normandy? Cause that's the message I get playing a military shooter.
It's a video game. Lighten up, Francis.
It's EA's competitor to Unreal. They just never got it off the ground. I don't think that's because Frostbite is bad so much as because Unreal is good. Doesn't hurt that Unreal is the established player in this space so it's got a ton more optimizations.
Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and ended up the best selling entry in the series. It's not the SJWs ruining things, it's the BF3 launch all over (minus the worst of the bugs).
BF5's missing key modes that have been around for ages with a bunch of promises to fix it later. Oh, and the single player is another 3-4 hour snoozefest (though at least it has one).
If they wanted to do early access they should have called it that. As it is they released a $60 title with about the same content you can get for free from Fortnite. The realistic art style might have carried it if they'd released a finished product but, well, they didn't.
And besides, that SJW controversy was mostly cooked up by the Youtube outrage engine looking for something to complain about. If EA's numbskull marketers had just kept their mouth shut it would have fizzled out, but that was the point. They got a ton of free publicity on what's little more than this years entry into a tired genre.
on the rampage in New York. I warn you, it's not for the faint of heart (or stem).
one the right wing press ran with heavily. It's not an uncommon thing and I can't tell if there's anything to the stories. Too often when you've got a kid not getting treatment it's because of religious parents who want to take them home and pray until they die. There's a sizeable portion of folks on the right wing that support allowing this. Some of them are insane but well meaning but there's quite a few who are just using it as one more distraction and one more thing to get the rubes worked up about.
It's frustrating because that kind of propaganda can take already unstable people who aren't getting the treatment they need and push them over the edge. You get it a lot with abortion and there's lots of abortion doctors who routinely fear for their lives, especially down south.
That said, like I said I can't tell if the Pelletier case is another example of that or if it's a real case of a hospital overreaching it's mandate. I'm inclined to think the former though as the few cases I've read about where the parents said "We just want to take our child to another doctor" it later came out they were lying.
send meter maids around to collect the scooters that are illegally parked and auction them off. This is what most municipalities are doing and it pretty much would wreck their business model, which they seem to be aware of .
I don't necessarily think this is a bad idea. It could potentially make commuting by bus viable in major cities that were laid out with cars in mind and do so long before self driving cars are a thing. But more thought needs to be given to it.
right up until this month.
That makes sense. There's only 2 outcomes for them and The Wall, neither of them good:
1. Wall works, they're out of the job. And yes, the various private security Unions think about this. One of the big reasons we can't get marijuana decriminalized is the prison guard union campaigns heavily against it (which as a pro-Union lefty kinda breaks my mind, but such is reality).
2. Wall doesn't work, we just wasted $25-$50 billion dollars and they look like idiots.
So yeah, Wall is bad juju if you make your living catching illegals.
What's interesting is the change. It's not like the two points above have gone away. If I had to guess the GOP promised their leadership something.
it's only my coworker's insistence on dropping crap on my desk that keeps my office from being paperless. For me I hate the stuff. I can't search it. I hate holding pens and pencils and it's a huge waste of money.
and overstay their visit. But even if the goal is no longer to stop the flow of illegals (which is how The Wall was sold to me) but instead of make border patrol's life easier it's no good. For one thing there's ladders. For another it's pretty easy to climb a fence.
As others have pointed out Israel doesn't have a lot of wall or fence. Unless you're gonna station somebody at every inch of fence they're just gonna go over it. Israel's solution is snipers and a willingness to kill. I suppose we could do that.
it's not interfering with Latin American countries for the sake of oil profits, cheap labor and our stupid, anti-left wing drug war.
If you want folks to stop streaming over the boarder make it so their countries aren't hell holes. Those people in the Caravans are refugees from political violence America caused by destabilizing their governments. Reign the CIA and the war hawks in.
would beg to differ. As would any air traveler who's stuck waiting in line because they're closing terminals due to a TSA shortage. Oh, and anyone who goes to public parks. And there's a ton of government web sites down.
But of course you know all this and are just trolling. I shouldn't feed the trolls, but there's a slim chance someone might believe you. There's a mountain of stuff private industry won't do because it's not profitable enough but it still needs doing.
they'd never get replaced. Every org I've ever worked for would just kick that can down the road.