EA clarifies recent offline games comment

I think they could've meant that completely offline is not being done anymore, that multiplayer/co-op modes will be in all of them with the option to try some.

Crysis 3 had an open multiplayer beta which I never used personally, this is how I read it anyway.

"we don't deliver offline experiences any more."

"Many, if not most, of our games include single-player, offline modes that you can play entirely without an Internet connection,"

It took them, what, a day to reverse their decision?

Peter Moore says as many stupidities as Peter Griffin, except the later is funny.

Long story short: "Forget what I said, I was kinda drunk and chose my words poorly."

I figured it'd be something like this, but you can never be sure. Often companies talk about something as if it's the best thing ever and, obviously, you then need to implement it in every goddamn game or you'll be left out and regretting not doing so for the rest of your life.

Having every EA franchise become free-to-play sounded like overkill, so I'm glad they're not doing that. Where's the "free" part in free-to-play, if you're not free to play something that isn't free-to-play?

It also sounded as if this change wouldn't take immediate effect and so I imagined/hoped that Dragon Age: Inquisition wouldn't be defiled by this business direction. Time will tell if this will lead to any seriously negative effects.

So can I consider this a 180? I guess so

i wonder how call of duty will beat this.

Meh who cares, World War 3 is about to start in a few days.

I honestly don't have any desire whatsoever to buy (or illegally download) these big budget, AAA games from publishers like EA, Ubisoft etc. For the past couple of days, games like Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Lost Planet 3 and Saints Row IV have been out, yet none of them piqued my interest. They all look like "been there, done that several times, already" experience. Stale, carbon copy iterations of things that felt fresh several years back.

I seem to be happy playing games from smaller studios like Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings 2 (yeah, it still occupies my time hours on end), Shadowrun Returns and other indie titles. They pull me into their worlds, unlike those money sucking black holes above. Something needs to radically change in the way big studios see us gamers. But to be honest, I don't see it happening.

"Free to Play" What a piss-take title.

Jesus Christ. Watching EA and Microsoft try and put together a coherent vision of the future is as embarrassingly painful and ultimately pointless as watching a fat person trying not to take the last slice of pizza.

Say so BS then redact it, give it a few months and this idiot will say it again, its not the first time and its not the last time. Months ago they laid out their belief that games of the future should be like shopping buying the bits of the game you want. Just makes me happy to be boycotting them.

OH BTW,i think this defines Peter Moore....Peter comes from Peter...its ok...now what about Moore...Mo-st W-or-s-e(Moore)...so its Moore...back in ur hole EA...

Translation of the statement:EA just figured out they want more money & want to give everyone the utmost pain & confusion as they(EA) think they're the GOD of games....

whatever they said didnt change anything from their previous statement. they basically said everything has mp...no online drm

But seriously EA, this is why I hate you.......and I love you!

How the hell asked EA to make the Dragon Age series Free to Play ??????

Seriously I really want to meet them.

Dang EA was way off, APRIL is like 8 months away!

Is that person even in touch with his own company ?
I'm a bit afraid he doesn't even know what products (oh excuse me, "services") they're offering / selling.

He's constantly putting out nonsense statements only to correct them shortly after, so basically he should better not have contact to social media (or media in general).

Then again, perhaps he's just testing out the waters to see how far he can go.
- Stupid statement + gamer resistance = rephrase statement.
- Stupid statement + less resistance = go ahead.
- Repeat

do game companies have a clue of what are they doing anymore?...

Phew, EA almost became douchbags. Good thing they clarified what they said. Now all they need to do is disband Bioware and they'll be a great company!

which explains why they jumped on the Xbox1 console for the Exclusive games, as they want an environment you have to be online with.

Too bad for EA that Microsoft did a 180, so now they need to come out and be the bad guys instead

The 180s are so trendy as of late!

Microsoft taught them everything about doing 180s

I can swear that game publishers throw out their brainstorming ideas to game journalists to see what the public reaction is before the actual policies are implemented. At least some that use that type of strategy listen to feedback, but I think EA is the type of company that pushes forward with ideas regardless of the backlash that might be conjured up.