Battlefield 4 shipped with "dirt all over it," says Oddworld creator

I just find it hilarious that EA and Activision charge us all $60 to play their games and then charge us all at least $50 more for the complete experience. Basically, these morons are shipping half a game. I don't mind paying $20 for a Season Pass but $50 is just greedy. Just another example of corporate greed. I remember the days of Goldeneye when we got the full game with all the maps and we were just fine playing it over and over again.

Listen to this guy Lome Lanning! He speaks the truth. The developers here wanted to delay BF4 release date. But EA had already promised its shareholders that the game would be released at a certain day and so therefore no delay. So EA went ahead and pushed BF4 out onto the market knowing that it had flaws. The mindset here was that whatever flaws the game has can always be patched later through updates. This is a clear case of EA putting its shareholders in front of the consumer. This is the essence of what Lome Lanning is talking about.

you are hooked on the game - then screwed! if you think the same "like"

it's all about the money. Every companies is the a fking same. They are good when they were small. Until they got big, and fk the people who got them there.

Lets not forget Cock on Duty franchise too, charging premium for remap and textures game.

Its true the stockholder are the reason why it shipped before it was ready, simcity before that and so forth. Publisher/stock holder should have no say in when the game comes out/ is ready.

Take2 is only publisher that gets this rockstar says when the game is ready and shipping * the developer* not the publisher

right. Oddboxx package had severe compatibility, crashing, not just minor bugs or glitches. 2 of the games would not even run at all for people.

like! I haven't played bf4 since the first 2 months and I have spared myself SOOO much frustration.

Replace "dirt" with shit and you'll be 100% right

<< LINK REMOVED >> i blame the casuals,people who just want to put a game and have fun in their free time. Only gamers really care about the content,

I was never a BF 4 fan until about 2 months ago. I rented it and liked it. Bought the game for PS4 and couldn't believe what I was missing. I rarely lag, glitch out, or have any problems. Obviously that is because I bought it later then the true fans. Everything is good, about to play naval assault. Ns if its broken or not, but BF 4 is epic.

Its sad to see DICE go through this, they are having to release games before they are even ready to meet deadlines for EA. What will happen if they do not meet that deadline well then shareholders get upset. This is what happens when big business gets involved. The same goes in all aspects of life as well, things lose their more personal feel.

BF4 may have been shipped with dirt on it, but Naval Strike is stuck in the mud.

"more than 10,000 people beta tested the game."

Is that what you call letting a load of people who own battlefield 3 play a demo of battlefield 4?

Couldn't finish the article; Lorne sounds like a grade-A d*uchebag.

And just yesterday DICE indefinitely postponed the release of Battlefield's latest DLC on the day it was supposed to be released. The delay is for PC gamers only which is their biggest consumer base. A little heads up would be nice, or atleast a future release date. EA/DICE just keep fucking us over even though we bought "PREMIUM" membership like fools from them. I swear I've had it with BATTLEFIELD.

By the way. THE GAME STILL HAS A LOTTA BUGS!!! Game breaking ones that too.

More problems still happen! anyone notice severe lag/rubberbanding on naval strike maps today for PS4?

As someone who has played these games since BF 1943 and loved them, it is so frustrating dealing with this game when all you want to do is enjoy playing some video games.

The fact that BF4 has been so heavily advertised and has been allowed to release a game that is so fucked up systematically boggles my mind.

I spent almost $700 in total buying an xbox one and BF4 Premium and still to this day it doesn't function in the way that it is supposed to. The sound in multiplayer doesn't work, constantly the game crashes, and all sorts of small other bugs are still present. Today Naval Strike is supposed to be available to me, oh yeah can't even see that on the menu!

It's an absolute joke to me that these guys are still making money off of hard working people like me who unknowingly buy into their false advertising. The developers and companies involved with BF4 are going to lose everything if they forget who pays theyre pay cheques.

I know I'm in the minority here, but this is my favorite game of 2013-2014. I can understand the frustration of the first month or so, as I suffered through many lockups and reboots myself. However, my system (PS3) has not locked up or booted me from a server in months. The problem is corrected. I played BF3 the whole year prior and plan to play this until the next release. Of course I play other games, but always seem to come back to the online play of Battlefield. The new DLC is awesome and have had no apparent issues.

Now... I'm not saying there haven't been issues in the beginning, however, the good here highly outweighs the bad. At the end of the day, its about something that you have fun playing and keeps you coming back. BF4 does that for me (even though I suck at it and have a k/d ratio of .50)

There are now atleast 10000 fewer people playing bf4,

done forget whiny gamers that demand a new iteration each year then complain its nit finished. Takes 4-5years to make these new Battlefield games to run the way they are meant to. Not 1.5 years. Its just as much fault for these type of gamers as it is the developers for putting it out there. EA should use MS Azure servers for XB1 and their normal servers for PS4

I can count on one hand the industry guys who aren't either full of shit and/or themselves.

Lorne Lanning is one.

I wish people like him had more power and influence.

Well, with Unreal Engine 4 being offered to developers at $19.99/month and Cryengine 3 at $9.99/month, developers are more enabled than ever to develop amazing games with incredible visuals all the while free of greedy publishers, and I'd wager that companies like EA brown their suit pants at the thought of developers leaving en-masse, simply saying "we don't need you anymore," and then paying ultra-low prices for professional game-making tools to the best game engines in the industry.

He is spot on! Large companies beholden to the shareholders. This is quite accurate and also a larger problem that not only extends to the gaming industry, but to many large corporations.

He says, "I'd rather not make games than go f**king be a slave for public companies who care more about their shareholders than they do about their customers," You could simply swap out the word "games" for anything else and it would describe so many other large greedy ass corporations today.

We are seeing so many game companies going under and it's turning into a few massive AAA game studios and everyone else becoming indies. The middle of the road studios are becoming so rare today. Kind of like America today: The super rich, and everyone else. There is no balance in this.

Btw.. no I don't play Battlefield games or many other AAA titles anymore. There are some amazing games out that came from Indie, or smaller devs. Getting really tired of most huge AAA publishers. EA has so much hate for a reason.The only huge AAA left that is in a league of their own is RockStar. They are the exception.

TO any EA rep: Ill say this you greedy sons o bitchs... I played bf since bf-1942, bought bf2 an all its glorious exps, LOVED bf2142 and its exp. bought BF for 360, bfbc for both ps3 and 360, bought bfbc2 and its exp for pc ps3 and 360, bf3 for ps3 pc and 360 all premium too!!, bought bf4...... For ps3....... Couldnt ever finish a match, you assholes ruined my fav franchise. Way to go. You greedy sons o bitchs. I highly doubt youll get any more of my money... U cheated me. Go to hell.

BF3 is crap; I bought it thinking it was like Bad Company 2. What a mistake :/

I'll just keep ignoring the sequels...

Smells like sour grapes to me. So, he's saying a company like Rockstar doesn't know what it's doing?