Ea's Vision Fr The Future
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Join Date: 2004-02-12 Member: 26455Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">interesting gamespy article.</div> <a href='http://www.gamespy.com/articles/634/634928p1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespy.com/articles/634/634928p1.html</a>
TBH i think it needs to be restrained. Its becoming a bit too much like Microsoft and Intel, they drive the market and they decide what to inovate. + we all know they make poor developers and coders cry...
have a read..
TBH i think it needs to be restrained. Its becoming a bit too much like Microsoft and Intel, they drive the market and they decide what to inovate. + we all know they make poor developers and coders cry...
have a read..
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Google should become a games publisher. That'd rock <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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So they say that people want games with more pixels. BS. It'd be nice, yes. But I'd take a strong gameplay or story element over graphics any day.
Emotional involvement is all very well, but he should understand that this can be done equally well with the power of imagination or with powerful writing. Yes it's a nice element to invest research in, but it sounds like he's trying to push the idea that this ground-breaking technology is just what we needed. EA should concentrate on the core of their games, not just the superficial.
He talks about his daughters, who he admits aren't gamers, and then bases design theories around like-minded <b>non-gamers</b>' needs. That sounds like greed to me: the desire to ship as many units as possible, not the desire to set new benchmarks in gaming history and deliver quality to the gamer.
Love this quote: "[...] I think relative to the size of the market [...]", and the way he calls us "consumers". Since when did I become a <i>consumer</i>?
<!--QuoteBegin-GameSpy+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (GameSpy)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->How do you prevent EA from becoming a victim of its own success?
<!--QuoteBegin-Entis+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Entis)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> That's a great question. You ask different people in EA, and I think different people have different answers. To me, it really comes down to this: being motivated by more than simply winning. I think that leads to a very competitive company. I think that the important thing is that everybody at EA finds something that they are motivated by to go beyond just winning.
For me, I'm a pretty gregarious person, so I'll tell you what motivates me right now. I believe EA is a place where we can have one of the greatest creative communities that I could imagine working at, and I have a place in helping to form and guide that community. There are more great artists, designers, graphics people at EA than any company I ever worked at.
I would say that each person at EA has got to fall in love with some aspect of the company that goes beyond competition and winning and say: "This is my life's work. This is a personal battle for me to make this the best I can." If as a company we can do that, I don't think we'll ever be a victim of our own success.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->The fact that they simply have more artists doesn't mean they have the cream of the creative crop, and it shows.
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Gee, i dont know, probably when you bought there games? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Google should become a games publisher. That'd rock <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It would, but they'd become one helluva monopoly.
WTH? Get outta my industry.
But you forget:
1) Google is the Light.
2) Google can do no wrong.
3) Google is all.
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You've always been one. You work, you earn money, and then you go out and spend that money on goods. You consume. You keep the system running. You're important to the system, but not because of who you are, but because of the consumption that you do. Therefore, you are not a person, but a consumer. You could be a mindless slave barely aware of his own existence - it would not matter. Just keep consuming.
WTH? Get outta my industry. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
This one deserves to be spelled out - Quoted For Truth
WTH? Get outta my industry. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This one deserves to be spelled out - Quoted For Truth <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh hell yeah. Quoted For Truth!
thank you lolfighter for that lesson in capitalism <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Electronic+Arts&word2=Google' target='_blank'>Dark vs Light</a>
The best films are directed by people who put all their effort into creating a masterpiece in terms of its story or concept. If we follow this through, shouldn't games developers be doing exactly the same thing?
Entis was the one that made the film industry parallels, you'd think that he and all the members of EA that they'd hired from that area would have seen how investing merely in special effects doesn't always pay off, and when it goes wrong, it goes very, very wrong.
WTH? Get outta my industry. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I agree.
gameplay, story, sound, visuals, creativity, uniqueness, solid controls, hybridization, non-linear, realism/abstraction, compatiable software (easy to install/uninstall and runs stable & efficent on my PC), <i><b>FUN</b></i>!?! etc. Those are qualities that I'd be looking for in a good game.
But seriously, i dislike EA more nowerdays. Even how Valve was basicaly forced to go to it for distribushion of HL on Xbox... Sad really.
Am I the only one starting to hate the gaming industry?
This is not a good sign.
Edit: For some reason, when I saw "EA's Vision for the Future" this image appeared in my mind:
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Edit: For some reason, when I saw "EA's Vision for the Future" this image appeared in my mind:
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Why do you think I'm not buying an XBox 360 or PS3?
I dislike their "OMG GRAPHICS F1RST!" attitude.
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Because they're not out yet?
"Tell me!! Tell me now!! Im getting interviewed soon!! What do gamers want???
To which some researcher says; "Well there is graphics and then... "
"Yess thats it! Enough, be gone! I will rally the gaming masses by showing them i like the good graphics!11oneeleven!! More, i shall give them more!!.. Kilroy, get me my cigar." "Yes saah, pardon my saa, here saah."
in the end there is no possible way that they could come out with something spectacular that would revolutionize the industry, only what is expected of the market.
companies like valve, or ID will always be around to push the advancement of the industry, ea will not.
if ea were to buy out one of these next generation companies, they would be doing nothing but hindering the market as they put tight restraints onto a team that needs artistic freedom.
Although we should blame them as well for supporting all these crappy movie tie-in games that EA does. I mean EA KNOWS that these movie tie-in games have only a lifespan of like a few months or more if the movie was successful? Yet EA makes it because of that short term demand. C&C Generals is a prime example of shor term. On the surface is quite amazing for its time but as you play its utter crap and buggy
There are so few companies that now look at the long term. Companies like Valve and Blizzard are those few that actually look at several years and support their communities.
EA game companies don't give crap after a year or two cos they rather you keep buying the darn sequels they make.
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Because they publish like 90% of all games?
this guy makes real game designers weep.