Hey EA, about that Anthem game

TLDR; I am not going to buy this game. As EA are known to drop support for games if they don't do well.

Over the last year EA have clearly shown, if a game is broken, they will dump it and run. They aren't interested in spending any money just burning goodwill.

The two examples of this is EA:Battlefront 2 & Mass Effect: Andromeda. Andromeda has been abandoned with just few patches but fundamentally a flawed game.

Battlefront 2 is in the process of being dumped with what I guess will be one final patch with a new map then onto Battlefield 5.

Anthem on the other hand is being marketed as a games as service setup. Like Warframe, Destiny 2 and The Division.

I feel though, that the games focus groups and market analysts have completely missed the mark on what people want to play ( its not loot shooters any more, its battle royal ). And so they have engineered a complete flop with all the latest loot box real money transaction systems in place.

The thing is, it doesn't have to be a flop. You can go back and fix games and to me this shows you care about your customers.

Three Prime examples of this are No Mans Sky, a utter disaster at launch, which promised the universe but delivered a very basic game. Since release though Hello Games have keep busy pushing out several major updates with the next update being multiplayer in July.

Diablo 3 was a abomination at launch, the entire game was tuned to the real money auction house. It was just not fun but Blizzard stuck at it, released a expansion which pretty much fixed the entire game and to this day still pushes out session content.

Lastly The Division. This is a game I hated at launch, it was complete utter garbage but once again UBISoft keep at it, released free updates along with some good DLC ( Survival is my fav ) and instead of killing the project turned it around into something people enjoy. I know I will be getting the Division 2 on release.

But EA, if you think I will trust you for a second with Anthem, then you are wrong. You have to prove me wrong by having the game last more than a year with substantial updates for your customers.

Battlefront 2 has Chromatic Abberation force on

If your a dev or from DICE or EA, please put in a option to disable:

Chromatic Abberation

This is a visual effect that off centers RGB making the image burly around the edges. It must be popular but it adversely effects some people giving them migraines, eye strain and eye muscle spasms.

Notice the Left side of the screen and how blury it gets around the edges. This is Chromatic Abberation

This is a huge deciding factor if I am going to buy this game now. I can't play games with this effect on, it hurts my eyes. If you put in options for colour blind people then I beg that you add a option to disable this effect. 

Forcing this option on is discriminating against those with this condition.

Ultima Forever: What have you done ?

Warning, the following post is a rant of epic nature and may be offend readers. So much so that its after the break.

UPDATE: The Dark age has ENDED

http://www.yamama.co.nz/2013/03/shroud-of-avatar-forsaken-virtues.html

Bioware founders retire

It happens to everyone ( who sign up with EA ) sooner or later.

"This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make; after thinking about it for many months, I made the decision to retire from videogames back in early April 2012 -- at that time I provided six months' notice to EA, to help enable a solid transition for my teams at BioWare,"

Better start the counter down for them doing a Kickstarter project. They can't do Baldors Gate, someone else already beat them to it.

Dragon Age III Inquisition Announced

NO

NO

NO

NO

Dragon age 2 is one of the worst games I have ever played and I stopped buying Bioware games that day. The very fact they are calling it Inquisition is just a excuse to put a court room scene into the game, like every other game they have done.   

Mass Defect 3

Mass Effect 3 is only on EA Origin. I won't start my rant on Origin again but this is why I won't ever get Mass Effect 3.

EA Claim it to be this:

Will ME3 be available on Steam?
During initial release Mass Effect 3 will be available on Origin and a number of other 3rd party digital retailers, but not on Steam at this time. Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to deliver patches and other downloadable content. We are intent on providing Mass Effect to players with the best possible experience no matter where they purchase or play their game, and are happy to partner with any download service that does not restrict our ability to connect directly with our consumers.

  Strange way of spinning that they can't have there own 3rd party store and must use steam for DLC.

The funny thing is, I am more likely to buy DLC via steam than any other system. This is due to the fact that I already buy items via steam.

After the utter disaster that was Dragon Age 2 and Mass effect 2. I won't be buying another Bioware game. This is another rant in itself =p

Battlefield 3

I know this is oldish and theres way more coming out of E3 but it shows why you should be excited about the game.



In the past people would ask me if I was going to get x shooter ( modern warfare ) and I would respond, na, I have Arma who needs anything else but even with Arma 3 looming, I am more exctied about playing Battlefield 3.

EA Origin

This is EA's second try at doing steam, this time it looks ok but there is no incentive to use it over getting a boxed retail game.

Example is Battlefield 3, which is priced as $89 NZD ( 73 USD ), this is the same as boxed retail but more than what it would be if I got it via steam.

EA are cunning though and it doesn't look like Battlefield 3 is coming to steam it will only be on Origin.

Still its better than Activision who inisit on charging console prices for their PC games $119 NZD ( 97 USD ) for call of duty at retail.