News Visceral Star Wars Project: EA schließt Dead-Space-Studio und vertagt Adventure

icetom schrieb:

und trotzdem kaufen immer wieder so viele Leute das nächste 08-15 Battlefield und ein Battlefront das den Namen nicht verdient hat. Features rausnehmen damit man sie in der nächsten Version mit Tralala als geiles Feature wieder ankündigen kann. Alles immer voll mit Bugs die man teilweise in der Engine eigentlich schon ausgebügelt hat. Der Erfolg von EA ist Zeichen wie blöd die Kunden geworden sind, die fressen alles weil die Franchises ziehen.

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Blood011 schrieb:

Finds auch immer lustig jeder knaut wegen Lootboxen und co. rum aber anscheinend kaufens trotzdem die meisten.
Ist wie mit COD jedes jahr heulen alle rum aber den rekord brechen se trotzdem immer aufs neue da kann denne ja was nicht hin hauen..

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Freu schrieb:

In jedem Thread über EA ist eine ähnliche Anmerkung zu finde.
Obwohl ich seit Jahren keine Spiele von EA gekauft habe fühle ich mich von dir angesprochen. So global würde ich nicht Kunden von elektronischen Spielen für blöd bezeichnen.

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[...] in order to compete with the likes of Uncharted 4, Visceral’s game needed to have a strong hook. To many on the team, that premise seemed absurd. They were starting from scratch on a brand new game, the first game like this that most of them had made, and EA wanted them to compete with Naughty Dog? Visceral hadn’t even made their own version of Uncharted 1, yet their game was supposed to be better than Uncharted 4?

According to one source, EA was pressuring Visceral to hit a 90 or higher on Metacritic [but the] team knew that even under the best circumstances that would be impossible. Other similar games across the industry, like Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs and even the first Uncharted, were viewed as first steps, games that could be used as stepping stones to reach the heights of something like Uncharted 2. Reaching 90+ Metacritic on Ragtag seemed unattainable. “We didn’t have the foundation; we don’t have 13-14 years building on a single engine, doing this specific game like Naughty Dog did,” said a former Visceral staffer.

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For years, four sources said, Söderlund and Jade Raymond had been asking about what Ragtag’s innovation would be. “What was this game’s ‘gravity gun’?” they would ask, a reference to Half-Life’s iconic weapon. And while the team had come up with lots of ideas—sabotage mechanics, a rotating cast of companions, and so on—executing those ideas had proven difficult. By the middle of 2017, people who saw the game say it resembled Uncharted too much for EA’s liking. “The three levels we made for the 3.5 gate, every single one of those levels you could hold up a video of Uncharted beside it,” said one former Visceral employee, “and you could literally say, ‘OK, this part is like this part from Uncharted. This level is like this level from Uncharted.’”

The team crunched hard on those demos for Gate 3.5, which landed in the middle of October. There’s confusion on the exact timing here—and EA declined to get into specifics—but in the days after coming to see Gate 3.5, EA’s executives made it official. After nearly two decades, Visceral’s time in the video game industry was coming to an end.

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