EA just doesn't get it

[killgod]

I'm a gamer. I have no issues with admitting that. It's my favourite hobby, hass been for about 15 years with no signs of slowing down.

I read all media, play almost everything and have a pretty good memory (even tho I smoke bowls a day).


Most people didn't notice, though I did, that since Madden 06, the EA dev crew would boast their awesome coming football game......and within 4-6 months of release tell us how that 'awesome' game was a steaming pile that they weren't happy with.

This trend has continued throughout ALL FOUR attempts at next gen NFL football for the company. Yes even this year Ian Cumface told us how he wasn't pleased with 09 and blamed it on being a David Ortiz game.

It's pathetic IMO. But apparently not just limited to Tiburon.



http://kotaku.com/5162011/ea-honcho-we-didnt-make-hits-in-08


Apparently, when Peter Moore was boasting about EA's metacritic ratings being so awesome, it apparently doesn't mean shit, because none of those games were 'hits'.

So what does EA plan to do going forward?


INCREASE THEIR FOCUS ON MARKETING.

No, their shitty fucking buggy ass games will not see additional help through the development phases, they'll see additional ads on web pages and maybe some more commercials. Yes, that will turn your pathetic attempts at quality games into hits, fucking advertisements.

Ohhhhhhhh the nets have EA ads on them! Must buy now! :screams::screams::screams::screams::screams:


Now where's that "If you had a nuke" thread, as I think I know where I'd fire...

...right up these executive's asses.

 

[killgod]

u mad?

A lil bit. :shifty:

 

[~Chance~]

Are you disgruntled?

 

[Twigg4075]

Madden sucks. It has for years. I think there is zero chance I buy 2010. I only bought 09 from Gamefly so technically EA didn't get my money. And I've played it a total of five times.

 

[thirtydaZe]

i do sence some hatred coming from you mr killgod....

 

[killgod]

i do sence some hatred coming from you mr killgod....

i like video game football and don't want it to suck anymore. :shifty:

 

[Herm]

Im far from an EA fanboy as i hate their basketball games and it saddens me their NCAA basketball game sucks so hard but...


I dont think Madden 09 is quite as bad as alot of you made it out to be.

 

[IamMedellin]

why are u all bitching....if all they included in Madden 2010 was a roster update You'd all still buy it n bitch...

y doesnt Madden inovate anymore?.....b/c they dont have to.....EA knows you'll buy it regardless...

 

[leaffan]

I was one of the many that got owned buying 09 based off the hype....

Oh well back to years of either straight up pirating it to try it out or just not playing it again it seems for me.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

I had to hear MM bitches trying to disagree with me for years.

But fact is over the last 2 gens EA has put all its money and talent recruitment into acquisitions and marketing departments. There sports related Creative/Art directors and programmers are 2nd 3rd tier talents give no objective other than to update nearly a decade old code.

It dates all the way back to PS1 days and them having to can a year of madden to get rid of what EA called "Hard headed impossible to work with stubborn creative group".....that group left and ended up being responsible for the 2K sports series. So this shit has been going on forever. Anyone believing the word of anyone in EA camp is just completely blind.

 

[Blade]

Its says something when your first Next Gen Madden gets outsold and better rated by the PS2 version of the game. And they still haven't made a game that has been given good review universally. Kinda sad to say, that the last good Madden was on PS2. What a crappy 'chise.

 

[Bear Pand]

I disagree EA gets it. They just don't have the goals they should. They just care about making money and getting as much of it as possible. They are very good at that.

 

[IamMedellin]

its almost dat time again

 

[Maynard]

why are u all bitching....if all they included in Madden 2010 was a roster update You'd all still buy it n bitch...

y doesnt Madden inovate anymore?.....b/c they dont have to.....EA knows you'll buy it regardless...

This!

EA is great at marketing. They dont care about putting out great games that hardcore gamers will like. They care about putting out a game that marketable.

Its no different then movies or music. If its not something they can sell, then they dont make it. And with EA they dont have to make it great....they just have to make it good enough to sell

 

[godspeed]

Its says something when your first Next Gen Madden gets outsold and better rated by the PS2 version of the game.

I can see the ratings being not so hot, it was a first next gen football game, so I mean you got some new quirks developers have to work through.

And of course it is going to get outsold by the Ps2 the first year, how many people had 360's compared to the Ps2 back then? Ps2 is the best selling console to date, not even close numbers wise, so that really isn;t a fair argument. Next gen was going to get buried regardless of how good the game was.

I do feel though, they are totally missing some opportunities on being a great game. But if this give us the great game we want, maybe they think we won't keep buying. So they keep giving us baby steps foward, and some backward. Thus is the ongoing struggle of the consumer and madden.

 

[1ke]

You guys shouldnt sweat fooball and basketball so much!

Cuz there is not a soul who played NHL and/or FIFA and thought those were bad games.

 

[1ke]

Arguement football guys would make is where those titles would be without Winning Eleven or NHL2k for example.

Ya good point...All i can say to that is, uhhh not much, i guess that just sucks then. Yay for me FIFA has taken the place of the game i lose sleep over waitin to come out.

 

[tigstah]

Madden sucks. It has for years. I think there is zero chance I buy 2010. I only bought 09 from Gamefly so technically EA didn't get my money. And I've played it a total of five times.

i dont plan on buying 2010 either.....i wouldnt take it if it were free. piece of crap.

 

[Ca$ino]

i used to always get flamed for hating ncaa and madden. i find it funny that most end up with the same thoughts i had, and now its ok.

 

[Maynard]

thats cause when you flamed ncaa you were wrong :laughing: