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Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'd never say that; I live in reality, not crazy middle-class urbanite world where a company with shitty online distribution can somehow be worse than any of ten million actually horrible things happening in the world.
Just that Origin is a wretched service, enough so that I refuse to use it any longer.
How does it feel to kill a dream? I knew this would end in tears, but I was hoping for a few months on the hype train.
because I FUCKING LOVED THAT GAME AND IT REFUSES TO WORK ON ANYTHING NEWER THAN WINXP
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It just baffles me that there are people alive right now who think a company that fucked up a Sims game is worse the companies that have literally killed people and destroyed the American economy.
I mean, I expect a certain level of goofieness from the Internet, but that's morally repugnant as balls.
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It doesn't baffle me in the slightest, but I also expect people to be incredibly stupid, especially on the internet.
For good or ill, Disney appears to have its own creative vision for the Star Wars Universe and any fruits of this agreement with EA are going to be largely in service to that vision.
I expect new releases to tie in to the new Star Wars Episodes currently being developed and to reflect their tone and direction.
Republic Commando 2 was never going to happen. It couldn't justify itself in the salad days of 2005 let alone today's environment.
The KOTOR universe is effectively dead outside of SWTOR.
A SW game developed by DICE with the Frostbite engine makes obvious sense, but it won't probably won't be marketed as Battlefront 3.
Namco Bandai already does melodramatic dialogue with their radio chatter in Ace Combat, so they would be perfect for Star Wars! (I honestly would love this)
Wall-flip on the streets of Nar Shadaa and pew pew a Trandoshan with dual DL-44's. I'll be a happy man.
what baffles me more are the people defending the votes saying "oh it was just a CONSUMER website"
i'm sorry when something is titled the woorst company in america it should kind of, you know, include all the companies in america.
Can we not get hung up on this? Personally, I really don't like the fact that EA just cleaned out all their B-tier development right before signing this exclusivity deal, as it means something's going to break. Star Wars games have never been AAA material, because the source material isn't AAA material. It's B-movie pulp.. and this is NOT an insult. It's just a different type of moviegoing experience, and its games have reflected that. EA doesn't know how to do B-tier anymore, I fear.
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While it's true that Star Wars is B movie pulp, I am not sure how this is meaningful for this context. Almost everything that gamers buy in quantity is based off of the pulp genres (Military and Mil SF, Men's Adventure, Fantasy).
Now you could argue that Star Wars is not a AAA gaming property at this point, and that I would agree with, but to say that B movie material can't provide the basis for a AAA gaming experience seems a bit off given the trends over the last generation.
Eh I had my account hijacked by a someone in Russia and it took all of 15-20 minutes to get it back from start to finish.
My only real complaints with Origin are the servers aren't anywhere near as reliable as they should be. Oh and they won't let me combine accounts for some reason which isn't a huge deal for me since the only thing I'd get out of it is my preferred screen name. They did at least move all my games to the profile I'd actually purchased things via Origin with though.
"There will be more SW games! But not from LucasArts; we finally took that label behind the barn and put it down. But other respected studios will take up the task! All of them owned by EA. But new games! All of them probably only available on EA's crappy Steam knockoff named for a once-awesome company that they killed years ago."
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Oh tie fighter. I remember in my youth having that thing on like twenty floppy disks and a photocopy of the last remainiing pages of the manual to get around the6 copy protection.
Make that game again. Except with less of that one mission with a Mon calamari cruiser and millions of mines
Also, another great game idea: Mercenaries, but with Star Wars! Seriously, hit me up, EA. I got nothin going on.
Though, they did flush Pandemic a while ago I guess...
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There's a rose-tinted nostalgia to companies that seems to believe that because they made something great once upon a time, they must still be that good, even when circumstances have changed, and none of the same the people are involved in the company. Square Enix aren't looking so hot these days, but they made Final Fantasy [Favorite Number], so whatever they do now can't be bad!
If you take the EA part out the announcement, it sounds a lot more hopeful.
Bioware, DICE and Visceral are making Star Wars games? I suddenly see myself being interested in Star Wars games in the future.
With a better director and a guy like Micheal Arndt writing the script, it's going to be hard for Episode VII not to be a massive improvement over the Phantom Menace.
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Pretty much this. I'm scared to death that EA will cut off access to every decent game I would conceivably have on Origin if I, say, seek a refund for an obviously broken and will never be fixed game release by EA in a quick cash grab.
I guess maybe I should grab a next gen console. Hopefully they can't tie Origin into it.
2) DICE is obviously going to make some kind of Star Wars online multiplayer shooter. It probably won't be out for 2+ years. The single-player story will be terrible, but the multiplayer will be fun and very pretty graphically.
3) KOTOR 3 isn't going to happen. The Bioware part is "they aren't going to pull the license for TOR, thank God".
4) Visceral will make something that people may or may not like. I don't care about Dead Space, so whatever.
5) When the new movies start up, there will be tons of shitty tie-in games from EA's C-tier studios. People will be blame EA that these games suck, but they would have sucked no matter who did them.
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Those will be for mobile devices, and developed in-house by Disney.
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
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Star Trek was pretty much ass for years and years. Yeah, Abrams really jammed the action-factor way up there, but he made a more entertaining Trek-related event since... forever. But considering how Disney has let the Marvel stuff be handled (they let Joss Whedon handle Avengers, even after standard broadcast companies spent ages kicking him around for idea they didn't like) in terms of quality, I have a much more optimistic view towards Disney handling Star Wars than if Lucas had held on to it.
Unfortunately, they went and passed it off to EA, so pretty slim chance of anything but big-budget AAA attempts from now on, with loads more of "we have to lay off five thousand people because they all did a great job on this game, but it didn't sell 12 million copies and we have to shift the blame somewhere".
There are no indications right now of ANY sort of ability for EA to exert draconian control over the next Xbox, at least (and likely the PS4 as well), and Microsoft has now confirmed that being offline won't affect your singleplayer access at all. So yeah, next-gen console is probably the best bet to avoid shitty Origin.
It was a stupid internet poll run by a website that ended up being hijacked by butthurt internet people. The Consumerist lost a lot of their credibility and Peter Moore got to crow about it from a largely unassailable position.
It's done. It's over. Let it die already.
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Anyhoozits.
I really want a Dishonored style bounty hunter game.
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You and me both. I've been going back and spinning up some of the older Star Wars game. Playing through the original Dark Forces lately. There was just something magical about them. They had the same title scroll as the movies. The same opening music. They even nailed the transitional music from the title scroll to panning over a planet. Sound effects were liberally lifted straight from the movies. There was just this attention to detail with respect to nailing all the little things that made something Star Wars. Lucas Arts just had an amazing run in the 90's when the expanded universe was hot.
But absolutely nothing since has appealed to me. They may have been great, immaculately produced games, but they weren't Star Wars to me. And I suspect, even if EA didn't crap up new titles with DLC, always online DRM, Origin, and half broken yearly installments, they still wouldn't be Star Wars to me. The fact that they are likely to be mediocre games at best, surrounded by downright hostile consumer practices, is sort of incidental. If they felt like Star Wars, the way X-Wing and Dark Forces did, I'd probably be all over them. Origin and always online DRM be damned.
I have read before or am under-the-impression-that companies like EA, Ubisoft, etc are really pushing for allowance to use their own digital stores on consoles.
Or maybe this was just a Nintendo thing. I don't remember. But thanks for the update.
Replace "Reapers" with "Yuzhan Vong" and I would buy.
Origin + EA Meddling with Developers + "We don't make single player games" = Nope.
That's curious.
I've played an awful lot of single player EA games. But optional multiplayer, like masturbation and cheap store brand soda is what paves the road to hell.
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