EA closing Visceral Studios -

They are worthless shit-gargling fuckwit whiny so-called "hardcore" gamer trolls who represent the worst of humanity.

Often insights from that blog are good but this is not the case. The whole article can be summed up with one phrase - bad management (both from the hypothetical studio and from a hypothetical publisher). Meaning, studio had hard coded deadlines and no game concept to begin with, while publisher/owner of the studio did not understand a thing about game-making and did not care to check up on the process.

Most importantly, it's not about Viceral (despite the title) - EA DID try to milk more money form Dead Space 3, ruining the game and DID openly state, that RPG concept is not what they want, hence - closing studio specializing on that kind of games.
Sorry, ES is still evil.

I would think you would have to be fairly naive at this point to not suspect Bioware may be next, dependant on Anthem.
Either way, I would suggest that (given the treatment of Andromeda)Bioware's focus as a SP RPG maker is gone, as it is not as profitable as loot boxes.

Which, incidentally, are starting to attract the interest of the UK Government as a form of gambling - which would be a big no-no.

This is sad and very frustrating. I have no doubt this would've been an excellent game, like everything else Amy Hennig has helmed. I fear we are seeing the final days of the story-driven SP game. Since that's the only type of game I enjoy, it's more than a bit disappointing.

Well its not really gambling in the strictest sense of the definition so the point may be a moot one.

There is also this...




So it seems to me like the original issue of something else being involved is somewhat true. The rest is spin from the statement by Jorgensen...which Schreier notes:

This is starting to turn into an alarming trend and to think this all started with DLC back in the day which i hated from the jump. Before all of this chaos Developers used to try to give you the most bang for your buck. Nope now let's charge for content that is already coded in the game ??(in some scenarios) and have them pay for it to unlock it.

Instead of including this story plot into the game let's charge extra for it.....what's this? micro-transactiosn and mp and social player themed games?....scrap compelling single player experience and lets do that....


Yes i'm exaggerating a bit, but the progression is just getting out of control. These development firms go in with publishers like EA for financial backing and to improve their games mechanics and to have higher production values and budgets. I've never been on the "hate EA bandwagon", but this trend of dev's that have been dissolved by them is being structured by them at an alarming rate.


It's either AAA or indy produced 2d platforming stuff that is playing it safe....i'm glad i have "The Last of US 2" "Days Gone" "Horizon Zero Dawn" "tomb Raider" and other 3rd person single player  games to look forward to and not this generic stream of First Person Destiny wannabe garbage....  

I'd argue it's more common sense vs an entity like the ESRB agreeing on it.

In the end the practice is as they say basically, playing a game like Magic the gathering, only a lot of games thankfully are more than multiplayer only.

I think people severely underestimate how lucrative that can be in a business of high costs, risks, and image problems.

We'll see how Anthem does. I'm skeptical of it because I'm not a big Destiny fan. Frankly EA has to understand the backlash from killing Bioware would be 10 times worse than it was over killing Visceral studios.

Something's just popped into my head, the only games I own published by EA are the ME & DA series, with the sole exception of Dante's Inferno, developed by Visceral.

Just thought I'd put that out there for no major reason.

All of the most graphically impressive games with the best mechanics that I have played in the last year or so have been Frostbite 3 games. It's obviously doing something right.

Your anger here is massively misdirected. The casual gamer crowd is who EA gears their games towards. Blame their vapid tastes and bug-like attention span.