Man I can feel the EA egos here and I no longer work in games development/live in Silicon Valley. But the EA producers and programmers I had met were very proud of the fact that they "Singlehandedly killed the Dreamcast." EA is in a lot of ways like the big record companies. Turning out the same old crap year after year then making threats and doing rash things when it doesn't get its way.
The problem is there are so many console junkies that need to buy (Insert Franchise name here) (Insert next year's date here) who like lemmings drop their $50 for the latest not so great EA Sports title. I'm trying to think of the last EA produced game which did not have a number after the title...
It's such a shame to see good concepts (notice I didn't say games:) like the Sims and Black and White be controlled by EA, and it makes one wonder if this announcement will also include third party developed games distributed by EA. It would be a shame to see devolpers like Will Wright or Peter Molyneux handcuffed because EA management doesn't like what Microsoft said, and so won't play fully in the XBox Sandbox.
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Man I can feel the EA egos here and I no longer work in games development/live in Silicon Valley. But the EA producers and programmers I had met were very proud of the fact that they "Singlehandedly killed the Dreamcast." EA is in a lot of ways like the big record companies. Turning out the same old crap year after year then making threats and doing rash things when it doesn't get its way. The problem is there are so many console junkies that need to buy (Insert Franchise name here) (Insert next year's date here) who like lemmings drop their $50 for the latest not so great EA Sports title. I'm trying to think of the last EA produced game which did not have a number after the title... It's such a shame to see good concepts (notice I didn't say games :) like the Sims and Black and White be controlled by EA, and it makes one wonder if this announcement will also include third party developed games distributed by EA. It would be a shame to see devolpers like Will Wright or Peter Molyneux handcuffed because EA management doesn't like what Microsoft said, and so won't play fully in the XBox Sandbox.