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Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>Ioric: You need to calm down. No one is attacking you. You don't have to flail about on your tether.I'm sure if you reread the thread without that mask of burning, crusading fury you have on right now you'll see that:
1. That post wasn't addressed to you, but rather Cthulu concerning EA's sports games. He said they were just re-releases of the same thing, and I asked why he can say that. He didn't answer, so I assume the point is moot. That's it.
2. I was defending my opinion that I like certain EA games. I was defending them from you who went out of your way to state that EA didn't make the games I like (I have no idea what your motivation for that was). This post is a page back and is addressed to you.
3. As for the "where did I get defending against EA making crap games" hoo hah. Just read the thread. It's even on the first page. There's the blatant connection between how people correlate EA with pretty graphics and poor gameplay ergo crap. Even you said it just now. If they keep making similar games and you have a problem with it, why? It can't be because they are all awesome and good or whatever. Obviously you wouldn't have a problem if they made good games even if they were remakes. So... the obvious observation would be...? If you can't see that then this conversation is really over for all reasons and purposes.
I still have no idea why you're so hostile since I don't know what you're arguing for. Just that you're arguing against everything I say. And you keep bringing up the EA likes money agenda which I don't care for since, like I said, it's all conjecture and personal beliefs. Someone going around claiming a company is evil or a company is a saint has more similarities with an evangelist running around a mall praising whatever he believes in than a logical debate. Everyone knows how well a religious debate goes, and that's why I don't pursue it. Anything else you want me to clarify?
TL/DR;
If you just agree that EA doesn't necessarily make crap games, then we'll all be good and dandy. Everything else, I don't care. Does that sound simplistic after all this time? Yes...
[ June 13, 2008: Message edited by: umiman ]</STRONG>
I am calm. I think you need to chill since you're the one who's resorting to personal attacks.
Your original post was something along the lines of 'EA isn't a bad company because they made Dungeon Keeper, Rock Band, and Burnout.' I pointed out that they hadn't made any of those games. Rock Band was developed Harmonix, the guys who made Guitar Hero 1 and 2, and Published by MTV. EA was only the distributor. Burnout 1 and 2 were published by Acclaim. It was already an established series when EA got a hold of it, and Criterion the developer. Dungeon Keeper is the only real exception. It's strange. Bullfrog worked for EA for years making fairly unique games. Then one day EA just shut them down for reasons I'm not sure of. I guess they weren't making a big enough profit.
EA makes a habit of buying up developers just to get ahold of their intellectual properties or just because they are a threat to EA's dominance, then shutting them down. They constantly engage in unethical anti-competitive behavior like this. They once laid off an entire dev team just after project completion.
They edited their own Wikipedia page to make it reflect on them more favorably, and even downplayed the significance of the founder, Trip Hawkins, who no longer works there.
What more do you need me to say?