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| Fredulus:
--- Quote from: Menen on January 23, 2013, 01:50:47 AM ---Go watch the original spore prototype videos. Theres blood and love. where did the blood and love go? --- End quote --- the developers took it out i see no evidence that they were forced to by EA, they probably just realized they'd get way less sales |
| Menen:
--- Quote from: Fredulus on January 23, 2013, 01:55:40 AM ---the developers took it out --- End quote --- there is no evidence of that either. You are defending a company that wanted to buy steam for only 1 million dollars. |
| Fredulus:
--- Quote from: Menen on January 23, 2013, 02:01:21 AM ---there is no evidence of that either. --- End quote --- no, they're quite obviously the only ones that touched the game during development, hence the term "developer" now, they may have been DIRECTED to take something out of the game by EA, but EA didn't remove it themselves. I'm just trying to find out if there's any actual evidence EA influences the production of their games as harshly as everyone likes to think and i'm not defending anyone, i'm just trying to find out if everyone's claims that EA is a ruthless game-destroying motherforgeter are true, and so far no one has evidence |
| Menen:
--- Quote from: Fredulus on January 23, 2013, 02:02:58 AM ---I'm just trying to find out if there's any actual evidence EA influences the production of their games as harshly as everyone likes --- End quote --- Im starting to think that you down understand how EA works. they aren't some random company that merely suggests what game developers do. They OWN the game development studios and have executive order over what is produced by said studios. If they [EA] don't like something the developers made, they can make them remove it. |
| Fredulus:
--- Quote from: Menen on January 23, 2013, 02:07:38 AM ---Im starting to think that you down understand how EA works. they aren't some random company that merely suggests what game developers do. They OWN the game development studios and have executive order over what is produced by said studios. --- End quote --- here's how it works EA is a producer. Company X is a developer. Company X has no money of their own to finance the production of a game they want to make. They turn to EA. EA gives them all the money they could ever need to develop the game, and handles things like advertising and distribution. In turn, EA can influence production of the game (since, after all, they're paying for it) and I'm sure receives some portion of any profits. EA never once directly changes development of the game. They may, I'm sure, see the direction a game is taking and say "No, that won't work, not enough people will buy it - if you want our money you'll have to change that." They're just trying to make a smart investment, and who can blame them? They're paying another company millions of dollars to develop a game that could just flop. So all I'm trying to figure out is if EA was actually the one that ruined games like Spore. I've never seen a single shred of evidence to suggest that. (And, on another level, you should ask yourself if Spore was actually ruined - sure, it wasn't the game YOU wanted, but it was pretty successful and plenty of people loved it) |
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