Game News EA: We Lost Some Fans With Dragon Age 2

[Shannow]

The funny thing is that regardless of which way DA3 goes, they'll lose customers now; the retards that enjoy DA2 will hate a return to complexity if they go that way. Should they keep dumbing down more, then the few that stuck with them since DA:O will go and the DA2 lovin' crowd will not like any change in that direction either.

Hmm, DA and MEh never really had anything to do with each other, as far as I'm concerned. Different gameplay, setting, system, etc.
I find it hard to believe that they share a large number of players that are actually influenced by how the other franchise develops. (Of course that doesn't mean, that it's not possible...)

 

[commie]

The funny thing is that regardless of which way DA3 goes, they'll lose customers now; the retards that enjoy DA2 will hate a return to complexity if they go that way. Should they keep dumbing down more, then the few that stuck with them since DA:O will go and the DA2 lovin' crowd will not like any change in that direction either.

Hmm, DA and MEh never really had anything to do with each other, as far as I'm concerned. Different gameplay, setting, system, etc.
I find it hard to believe that they share a large number of players that are actually influenced by how the other franchise develops. (Of course that doesn't mean, that it's not possible...)

Well I'm only talking about DA customers here, there are actually quite a few clowns that enjoy DA2 actiun more than 'boring old hardcore' DA:O. Those people won't really like whatever direction the franchise heads to now, being a specific market for this particular type of game, yet it's this group that is most satisfied with how it is now. Decisions, decisions for EAware...

 

[Thrasher]

"They were not pleased with some of the innovations and things we'd done."

Corporate lies once again. From what I could tell there were NO innovations, only retardations and simplifications....

 

[Zed]

Obviously the wrong thing is that Stanley "End of the Line" Woo is still a moderator.

lolol funny racist image macro

 

[GarfunkeL]

 

[Freelance Henchman]

"Racked up" sounds about right.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

James Sanders, huh? More like James Vega, am I correct?

 

[Regdar]

She looks like a tranny. I wonder if it's intentional.

 

[jiujitsu]

But to be honest, we lost some fans as well. They were not pleased with some of the innovations and things we'd done

Yea, no shit.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

She looks like a tranny. I wonder if it's an Innovation.

Fixed.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

i`d still hit her

 

[Clockwork Knight]

She looks like a tranny. I wonder if it's intentional.

Better than her unnerving perma-smile incarnation in ME2. Fucking uncanny valley, good thing the screen fades to black during sex scenes. This one looks a bit more cartoonish, which lessens the effect.

 

[felipepepe]

i`d still hit her

BIOWARE - "It's working! Another sale, good work Art Team!"

 

[poocolator]

We're very proud of the game. We tried to innovate and do some different things with the combat system and some of the way we told story. For some fans it worked well. In fact, we brought a lot of new fans into the Dragon Age franchise.

So retardation = innovation?

But to be honest, we lost some fans as well. They were not pleased with some of the innovations and things we'd done. We understand that and we're listening.

Yes... innovations.

This is obscene.

 

[villain of the story]

We should make a mock-up social tranny site and then invade Biowhore and EA forums, accusing them of prejudice against transgendered people for their games don't feature any such characters.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

I like this new look that miranda has, way better than the second game

 

[racofer]

She looks like a tranny. I wonder if it's intentional.

EA is clearly trying to appeal to Codexers.

 

[xemous]

selling 1.5 million copies for a game that was only in development for 1 year is excellent. EA did well

 

[Morkar Left]

We lost some friends. That happens if you advance in life. But we got a lot of new and better friends now. But we are willing to listen to you to give you a chance to become friends again. Be thankful and try to catch up with our new friends. If you apologize we might forgive you and give you some attention again.

God damn I love them. EA and his biowhore are clearly the best entertainers in the industry.

 

[Data4]

Isn't a definition of "innovate" to find new ways to do things better? I guess they're stuck believing their own bullshit, then.

 

[commie]

selling 1.5 million copies for a game that was only in development for 1 year is excellent. EA won big time, you losers that buy games lost




go EA the shareholders made it big time, executives and managers, the got the big bucks... FROM U!

HAHAHAHAHAH!

And Activision makes many times that every year with every iteration of COD.

EA losses:

$677 million FY2010
$276 million FY2011

Who's laughing now?

 

[Angthoron]

I hope that they won't do the Miranda ass-shots on Ashley. Boob-shots, please.

 

[circ]

I hope that they won't do the Miranda ass-shots on Ashley.Cockbulge-shot, please.

Fixed.

 

[Esquilax]

I agree. Ass-shots are so last gen.

Am I alone here or is Ashley one of the few Bio characters that are actually somewhat believable? Not saying she was amazing or anything, but at least there wasn't the whole psychiatrist angle when you talked to her and she seemed like a reasonably normal person, which is rare for BioWare.

Liara will take more shit from you than a Korean mail-order bride, plus she's got that whole incredibly annoying "awkward-but-adorable love interest" thing so that nerds can relate to her without feeling threatened. BioWare loves to use that one for their female love interests, the other one being the "haughty but vulnerable" archetype so that the male player feels a reward for conquering a sexually aggressive vixen and making her submissive and in love - make sho' dat bitch be fiendin' fo' tha dick.

Then of course there's the male love interest, who's basically a handsome eunuch with a dark past and completely incapable of interacting with the opposite sex despite being well into his 20's.

The conclusion, of course is

 

[KevinV12000]

Dragon Age was supposed to be Bioware returning to its roots. That's what Bioware claimed. Regardless of whetehr one gives them credit for a good faith effort at that, the direction they went with DA2 makes it pretty obvious they made a conscious decision to run as far away from their roots as they possibly could.

I am an extreme Anti-Consolite, and I admit that this hard-line position may cause me to miss some good games once in a blue moon, but, on the other hand, it caused me to drop Dragon Age off my radar as soon as Bioware went back on its promise to develop Dragon Age for PCs only. Anyone who was paying attention knew at that point that what they were going to get was....a console game.

I feel the same way about Star Wars-The Old Republic. Despite my general unease with MMOs, so long as this remains PC-only, I'm in for at least a test drive.