Following in the footsteps of CAPCOM and EA, game developer Deep Silver has apparently included locked on-disc content on Risen 2. The content is only available through the purchase of downloadable content (DLC.) The ostensible point of DLC is to extend the life of a game by offering future downloadable content produced after the main […]
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Yesterday EA product manager Kevin O’Leary took to Twitter to bash Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, calling the franchise “tired.” Now Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of the popular indie title Minecraft has taken a swing at EA for releasing its “Indie Bundle” on Steam, calling the company “cynical bastards” on Twitter. Twitter […]
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EA global product manager Kevin O’Leary called Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 title tired and in need of a rest. Is the gaming industry becoming more like politics?
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Nexon, a South Korean developer and publisher of free-to-play games currently headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has offered to buy Electronic Arts according to Bloomberg News. EA shares have responded accordingly. This comes on the heels of Nexon’s announcement last week that the firm was looking to buy up developers, leading to a large spike in […]
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Valve’s Gabe Newell said in an interview that he thinks EA’s digital distribution service, Origin, doesn’t do anything very well right now, and has a lot of catching up to do with competition like Valve’s Steam.
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You really have to hand it to the PR folks at BioWare and EA. This promotional image for the game quotes Entertainment Weekly but leaves out all the context, spinning widespread discontent into pure gold: One can’t help but wonder if this was done on purpose, just to needle all those “entitled” fans out there […]
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Whatever forces lurked behind the curious case of the EA spambot affair, one thing is certain: EA has a poor track record when it comes to building fan trust. Part of this is due to its history of somewhat shady marketing techniques. William reminds us that EA has earned its reputation, whether or not the […]
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[updated below] Yesterday AllOut.org took down a petition aimed at shooting back against anti-gay boycott groups placing pressure on EA due to gay characters included in the game publisher’s titles. The petition had been hit with what looked like spambots, as well as by obvious spammers who took their disdain of EA to the comments […]
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I’ve seen the images floating around the internet right now, showing how spambots have been used to inflate the signatures on the Allout.org anti-boycott petition we discussed yesterday, which defends EA against right-wing boycott artists. (Examples of the screenshots can be seen here and here, though the comments themselves are no longer visible at the […]
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Brevity is the soul of wit, and William sums up very briefly why the internet rallied against EA and gave the gaming publisher a Golden Poo award. If you haven’t been playing close attention, “it’s not just over the Mass Effect 3 ending,” writes , “it’s over Origin, it’s over Project $10, it’s over early server closings, it’s about DLC […]
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