That is a great video, thanks! I didn't know any of that stuff about C&C4. Seems like they were making a totally different game, cancelled it, and just shoe horned it into a semi C&C ish new type of game that wasn't C&C and wasn't the cancelled game either, and call it C&C4 just to hoodwink an existing audience in the name of sales. What a shitty thing to do. Also EA got so over excited about monetizing every aspect of gaming and then designing games specifically to be monetized, it is all a big recipe for a disaster.
But then again, this is EA, so this is completely to be expected. Most companies would nurture their creative staff to get better at what they love, build upon past wins, etc. EA probably have no fucking clue who even works there anymore.
CEO minion: Sir we are making this multiplayer action game and in house testers say it completely sucks. What do we do?
CEO boss: Just scrap it, use the assets in some other IP so people buy it anyway.
CEO minion: Sir we turned it into C&C4 and early testers still say it sucks.
CEO boss: Jeez can't you make it into something at least decent? Don't we have any genius designers that worked on games like this before?
CEO minion: Well we had Westwood sir but some started their own company and the rest all quit and told you to fuck yourself.
CEO boss: Well whatever, just find a bunch of people who are dead inside that can get this shit out the door so we can move on. Oh and by the way, tell them to make it so you gotta grind to unlock stuff cuz that seems to keep people playing.
But then again, this is EA, so this is completely to be expected. Most companies would nurture their creative staff to get better at what they love, build upon past wins, etc. EA probably have no fucking clue who even works there anymore.
CEO minion: Sir we are making this multiplayer action game and in house testers say it completely sucks. What do we do?
CEO boss: Just scrap it, use the assets in some other IP so people buy it anyway.
CEO minion: Sir we turned it into C&C4 and early testers still say it sucks.
CEO boss: Jeez can't you make it into something at least decent? Don't we have any genius designers that worked on games like this before?
CEO minion: Well we had Westwood sir but some started their own company and the rest all quit and told you to fuck yourself.
CEO boss: Well whatever, just find a bunch of people who are dead inside that can get this shit out the door so we can move on. Oh and by the way, tell them to make it so you gotta grind to unlock stuff cuz that seems to keep people playing.