/v/ - Video Games

>>13837507

>It seems we can add one more story to add to the list.

Who edits this shit?

>>13837519

Pre-acquisition Popcap were some of the better guys in recent years. They were just unlucky to have gotten big in a time where everyone was doing the same shit they were making them look like copycat Jews.

Also i am amazed that a developer can get fired for disagreeing with the publisher.

>>13837507

jew gets fired by jewest jew for not becoming a jewer jew

>>13837507

You know the firing happened in 2012, right?

>>13837617

OP pulled some clickbait bullshit with EA is going rogue as if this firing is new, and you're an illiterate faggot.

>>13837625

To be fair, the article itself also did that. I assume OP posted it before reading it first just like I did

>>13837639

Re-read the OP, then read my response, then neck yourself.

>>13837519

Plant vs Zombies was alright for a casual game.

Why is it that casual publishers cannot just focus on making simple but fun games and instead always do the most scummy stuff imaginable?

>>13837698

Something something south park something something

>>13837698

Because they're more interested in getting buddybuddy with Hollywood types and get invited to those sodomite cannibalism parties. Being an honest businessman won't do that for you.

But both PvZ2 and PvZ Heroes are pay2win. They are not the worst offender of pay2win but they are still pay2win.

>>13837761

Why do you think they fired the guy that didn't want p2w to shit up his game?

>>13837692

>"EA is a soulless company that doesn't give a damn about their consumers"

This is every single profitable business in existence. Examine any product you own or consume, and you'll find equally scummy practices if you look deep enough, and at the end of the day, nobody really cares. The only upheaval the industry is going through is money moving away from AAA singleplayer experiences with tacked on multiplayer modes, into p2w "games", mobile or otherwise, and the multiplayer market being dominated by a handful of titles that have completely saturated the market.

Pirate all of your media, and just be done with it.

>>13837507

Adding fuel to the fire already? They couldn't wait for the Star Wars shit to blow over?

>>13837788

No wonder why PvZ2 is a mobile only game with pay2win. PvZ Heroes have some good ideas for a CCG (it is not a 100% Hearthstone clone) But it is too grindy/pay2win. How bad was the grind or pay2win in Garden Warfare 1 and 2?

You know, with all this talk about P2W and shit, has there ever been a situation where hacking groups managed to destroy the living shit out of the companies involved in the scams by letting players own a shitload of fake currency for free? I recall there being a group of TF2 autists doing just that with an exploit in the drop server, but that got shut down pretty quickly.

>>13837527

Strange how I never heard anything about that movie again even though it had strong symbolism regarding "refugees".

>>13837823

Someone tried it with Kancolle I think and ended up in either in jail or court. Can't really remember the details.

> All these fucking retards not reading the article or the thread, thinking it happened after BattleFront II

> Literally talking out their asses over the title of an article they haven't read

You fags are fucking embarrassing sometimes.

>>13837828

>boss tells you to do something

>you make counter offer that is sensible and most likely better idea

>they fire him instead of listening

>company is not doing great and fails

<Battlefront II will get probably get around 50% of Battlefront I sales and Disney wants to take license away from them

Nothing is new.

It is very common for higher ups to make shitty decisions and fuck over end product. Usually it results in shitty job, sometimes in product flopping.

He was just regular guy telling higher ups they are retarded. Not to mention the fact he also didn't want EA to take giant dump on franchise he created, just like Disnay didn't like SW stuff.

>2012

Why do you make it sound like this was a recent event? It was only revealed now. The firing happened ages ago.

>>13837970

>I think the truth of it is just that the best of chans have grown out of it, and are now using their skills in the real world to make the events that the internet can later claim they were responsible for.

No, more like past posters in /v/ have been time and time again shown that they can't spend all their time in /v/ any longer. A lot of the older posters now main /pol/. I can't speak for them but I'll probably come back to /v/ in larger capacity once the world isn't such a bad place for vidya.

>>13837897

>you make counter offer that is sensible and most likely better idea

it will get you less profit, so it's not a better idea

>>13838092

>immediate profit is better than establishing a positive relationship with your customers

yes?

>>13838169

If that was the case, EA wouldn't have to shut down so many studios every time they're hurting (though they sometimes do it just to get an IP). Keeping around a ton of good devs allows you to maintain a good customer relationship and allows you to make more IPs to milk in the future.

However, thanks to microtransactions, the sale of games don't matter as much because milking one whale makes up for a hundred buyers. And these whales care about being the best, not whether the game is good. You don't need good devs to make mediocre games.

>>13838442

I don't understand why EA politics is to turn every game into shooter like battlefield. Wasn't original PvZ was tower defense?

>>13837507

A dev with a spine? Holy shit.

>>13838474

>like battlefield

Son, they turned Battlefield into Cowadoody. The last two Battlefield games were 2, and 2142, and they were two sides of the same coin.

>>13838452

> as much because milking one whale makes up for a hundred buyers

That doesn't matter either because you can falsify all microtransation data to foot investors.

>Wilders

Klote jood.

>>13838620

And now we can't play either anymore because EA CnD'd Revive

>>13837795

>Pirate all of your media, and just be done with it.

This. No excuses required. So long as publishers are courting whales they won't miss me, you or the first hundred-ish people they drive away that actually give a shit about any of this. But that point is made assuming they lose money due to piracy, which they don't.

>>13837507

>Plants vs Zombies Creator Fired by EA for Refusing Pay-to-Win System

is he {{{ourguy}}}?

>>13838627

That gets executives thrown in prison fam.

That's fraud.

>>13837828

>be employed

>boss tells you to let him cuck you

>say no

>get fired

nice cuck logic cuck

>>13837609

>Important to note: Fan being fired from PopCap (who was then already acquired by EA) is nothing new, since it was reported way back in 2012, though the actual reason for Fan’s termination has never been revealed until now.

Maybe you should have actually read the article.

>>13838888

I dont know but your quads are to be admired.

>>13837530

>i'm amazed someone can get fired by their boss

>>13838912

It's not like devs have unions to ensure they don't get fucked over.

>>13838900

>How poorly animated those crossed arms are angers me.

They've only fixed the animation in the scenes that were shown during the controversy. To this day the game is still a buggy mess and will never be fixed.

>>13837507

wew

dont buy EA games, period.

>>13838957

Good. Mass effect ended at 2.

Whatever his name is he's going to video game heaven.

Another one: The president of facebook's latin american division went to jail in Brazil for refusing to give the personal data of latin american facebook users to the brazillian government.

>>13839075

Nah, Mass Effect was always shit, and you're delusional if you think otherwise.

>>13839152

Disregard the flag.

i like to kick EA as much as the next guy, but we are getting second hand info on this.

i think it went down more like EA going-

"hey your going to make plants vs zombies 2"

"alright sure"

"it has to be pay to win"

"i don't really want to do that"

"okay then, we're going to do it anyway if you don't want to work on it theres the door"

"arlight bye"

and what we got is sensationalised hearsay

I can't help but view this as just a calculated way for them to get out from under EA's thumb while simultaneously generating maximum good will for some future project/kickstarter - and/or - he was already in talks with another development studio who would "give him shelter" for PR points they can use to market their games.

Nothing ever happens in this industry from the goodness of anybody's heart.

>>13838092

>I hope that someday Gamergate will be remembered as the event that pushed a politically apathetic people into the Right Wing Meme Squads that helped Trump get elected

Implying this isn't the case already?

>>13838847

Maybe you should suck start a shotgun you dumb nigger, because OP clearly didn't fucking read it before posting it as if it was something EA just did.

>>13837507

Holy shit, EA is at it again with their shekel grabbing.

>>13837813

Garden Warfare 1 and 2 was pretty much just cosmetic shit you get from card packs that you get with almost no work. Plus all added content was free. Bet if a 3 came out it would be complete cancer though.

>>13838474

It still had a tower defense mode along with the battlefield like shooter portion.

>>13837507

I just listened to that round-table with edmund. Came here to post it up lol

>>13838934

it blew up because super meat boy dev just talked about it. open secrets

>>13839942

>Garden Warfare 1 and 2

GW2 was grinding for loot boxes for a chance at getting a piece of a character class. It also has microtransactions. Of course it has microtransactions.

>>13840133

but Plant vs zombies is fun, anon-kun.

>>13840137

Unless you're just fucking with me and being ironic, I absolutely pity you for not having real fun and assume you never truly lived as a human being

>>13840151

The first one was pretty fun for how simple it was even though it gets more and more annoying as you go on, but I guess that's part of the fun. The game is never unfair in that aspect.

I feel like EA will never die. Casuals will keep buying their games as they always have. Commentary 5 years ago still applies today.

>>13838878

Edmund is one of the most based indie devs I've known

>>13840133

>>13840151

It's one of those games that makes you think they could do something cool with it and then EA happens. What a shame.

>>13840145

I liked PVZ and was using it a lot on the phone, the first had some microtransition but you could still grind your way through. The second you had energy to play level, plants locked on paywall and you either spent 3€ on consumable or you grind for a month most likely this dev is like all the whores in Hollywood and claiming retroactive rape after getting the deal of becoming famous

>>13840309

>most likely this dev is like all the whores in Hollywood and claiming retroactive rape after getting the deal of becoming famous

I thought so, which is why I was wondering if he was fired before or after all that, considering how full to the brim of microtransactions PvZ2 was.

>>13840293

delet this

>>13840411

>>13840527

requesting source

>>13840151

Im sorry you feel like that.