I don’t understand how what EA does isn’t just a straight up crime. There has to be some kind of checks and balances that prevent a corporation from buying another profitable corporation and making it unprofitable on purpose almost immediately every single time.
I guess Mass Effect andromeda after they fixed the game. Everyone hated on it, because of the bugs. It overshadowed everything. No one was actually talking about how the game was in general.
I am the guy, who is willing to look past bugs. I played Red Orchestra 2 on launch day.
It was one of the most buggiest games I have played at that time, but when the game worked, like it was supposed to, nothing comes close to it. The intensity, the atmosphere, everything was just amazing.
I played Andromeda years after it came out with zero expectations and it was still kinda buggy but I just didn't like it. The moment-to-moment writing was just so far below the standards of the trilogy and the story beats never impressed me. Even the visuals look uglier than ME3 outside of a few moments where the lighting effects look cool (this one I can blame on EA forcing Bioware to use the Frostbite engine).
I can overlook bugs too, I played Cyberpunk on release and finished it within a couple weeks of it coming out and despite the bugs I thought it was a really good game that could be great with some polish (no pun intended) and tweaks to the skill tree.
It was one of the first games to be thrown under the bus by undeserved rage campaigning against ”Wokism”.
I played it at launch and while it would have been better to get polished a month longer, it was just fine, a couple of patches and the facial animations were fixed as well.
Kotaku leaked that EA didn’t give them that month because they needed sales for their quarterly report.
Out of those two major issues EA had complete power over the release date. If they’d prioritized maximum sales and a good release they’d let them push the release date back a month and the 8/10 reviews likely would have been enough to counter the hype train against woke companions.
It’s all on EA in my book. The game is fine and would have been great with the planned DLC content.
The management were/are completely out of touch with anything that isn’t a new touchup of a sports game.
Andromeda and Veilguard were decent games, both sitting somewhere in the range of a 7/10 Metacritic score, they just weren’t the exceptional games that BioWare was known for.
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u/HankTuggins 8h ago
I don’t understand how what EA does isn’t just a straight up crime. There has to be some kind of checks and balances that prevent a corporation from buying another profitable corporation and making it unprofitable on purpose almost immediately every single time.