@F1Lengend: Isn't it obvious though? Gamespot is an American website, Mircosoft is an American company, they will always be biased towards Xbox rather than the Japanese Sony Playstation.
Americans will always prefer their own stuff, to the point where they create their own sports so they can win every time...
@unaligned: Exactly, more features = more development time. Which doesn't make sense considering they took an extra year to develop this, and now all the reviews are saying it's lacking...
They could very easily have made this a better offline game in the same 2 years it took them to make this mediocre always online game for the same development cost, - the on-going cost of maintaining the servers.
I stopped buying EA games years ago and haven't regretted it since.
@unaligned: You're saying that EA making the game available offline would have cost them more and gained them less?
How is that possible when tens of thousands of people won't buy this game, precisely because it's always online? I'm also pretty sure maintaining servers for a few years costs more than having people simply download your game and play offline.
You forget that every single gamer (100%) can play a game offline, of those probably around half have the internet access to play a game that's always online. Buy making a game Always online you're excluding a big chunk of your market.
Which is probably why people are reporting that the game seems short and there's not much to do... because they scaled back the development cost knowing that they're going to sell less because it's always online.
The number of people who would have bought this had it been available offline would have vastly increased their sales.
I won't buy a game if it's always online, not because I'm poor and I can't afford internet (I'm on the internet right now). I live in a country where fast reliable gaming quality internet is expensive and I'm not going to spend roughly 1/4th the cost of a new console every month just to play games.
I don't mind updating games and downloading DLC but always online is a step too far. What happens a few years from now when EA stops supporting the servers because they can't justify the maintenance for the low number of sales, and just like that your game is gone forever.
@busterfriendly The word "gender" is commonly understood as meaning male or female. The meaning of the word "sex" is commonly interpreted as "the act" not the physiology of a living thing. Its not that hard to understand if you try.
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