I think EA needs to get back to basics by reconnecting with its roots. Remember when just about every game that EA made was a "Construction Set" (Music, Pinball, Adventure, Racing Destruction)? Remember how good they all were? Maybe EA should make "Horrible Online-Only DRM Construction Set"? Perhaps the "Stultifying Corporate Mouthpiece Construction Set" would get big scores on Metacritic?
We need to bring back Bill Budge, Stuart Smith, and Will Harvey... to pound Peter Moore with the cluebat a few dozen times.
That's odd. It's as if Microsoft executives and marketeers put absoluetly no thought into how platform critics would derive satiric names from a product called "Xbox One". I mean, "Xbone" seemed immediately apparent to me.
In regards to the feelings of XB1 developers, it is a shame that they're hurt. I wonder if Microsoft executives will own up to the distress they themselves have inflicted upon their platform developers through their astonishingly poor marketing and messaging.
When Disney gets around to re-releasing "Return of the Jedi", they better darn well make sure that "slave Princess Leia" is covered from head to toe in CG walkie-talkies.
Lots of interesting dialog going on. I'd love to launch into a diatribe on the zeitgeist of modern gaming press and pundits struggling mightily to find sexism in the industry anywhere and everywhere.
For now, I think I'll settle for the somewhat easier point of scratching my head over the dissembling social anxieties of a developer who writes games that encourage the player to kill everything in sight.
Game world the size of Jupiter? Really? Your game world has an approximate surface area of 23.7 billion square miles? Well, let's hope that none of those billions of square miles are occupied by creatures that eat their own poop.
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