2012-09-15, 13:15 | Link #122 | |
sleepyhead
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And I like my goddamn base building. =P
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2013-02-27, 13:15 | Link #124 |
sleepyhead
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Okey so about this whole free to play model. I'm afraid it sounds a lot like the AoE Online model. And having played (or tried to) AoEO recently, I can safely say it's garbage (and I am one of those people that actually likes free to play in general). Some of the problems I encountered in AoEO: screwed up skirmish mode (by "buy power" boosters you can't even opt out of if you pay), screwed up shoddy multiplayer because (a) goddamn leveling systems are not good in RTSes! and (b) you can't practice shit. Why you can't practice? because the only sensible mode is the so called "champions" mode where "booster" nonsense is off, but they want to nickle and dime you so everywhere else in the game is on and you have no means of turning it off. Literally your only way to improve is to get beat on. To give you an idea of how terrible this is, after losing my first match and winning my second match I was 1000 on the ladder which doesn't seem to reset... what? how is it even possible to turn of so many people to have stats that bad. The whole booster and "leveling goodies" are also horrible and ruin the game. "Hey come by buy factions." ....... "Congratulations on buying the Norse, enjoy! ps. we've automatically leveled you to 20, so you can enjoy the leveling experience" ..... "Oh yeah forgot to tell you, all you can do with the awesome norse is grind these 5 boring repeatable quests." No I'm not jocking these are 5 quests that COMBINED are less sophisticated then 1 tutorial mission of AoE2! Greatest service ever... I really hope C&C:G isn't going to be that, but who am I kidding,
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2013-05-08, 15:17 | Link #127 |
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
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Meh could be good or bad.
Can someone explain to me why EA is so dead hard on these Free to play and microtransactions? I mean you'd think with their track record and such that someone in the company would go, "Uh boss, we've been doing nothing but taking hits and being in the red on all sides shouldn't we try something else?" A business is suppose to create money and if a strategy isn't working out usually the directors will do something to change it yet they still keep on going down that path. You'd also think that with all these microtransactions they'd get a decent enough experience to know how to make it better for consumers but noooo they still can't get it right. |
2013-05-08, 16:50 | Link #128 |
sleepyhead
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In one of their "for business, we are stupid and forget this is going to get out to the general public" they're obsessed with android/iphone games and have this idea success on those platforms will reach to the PC/whatever market, as I recall they were all excited about nikle and diming us with microtransactions. Expect buying power...
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2013-05-08, 18:08 | Link #129 |
The Dark Knight
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Then they have a really pathetic board of directors and investors or a really good liason that tells them to keep investing because so far they're not getting anywhere mind boggling with the microtransactions.
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2013-05-09, 11:21 | Link #131 | |
sleepyhead
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Very rarely is there a case where a game in a series just needs to be erased from existance, but damn don't think anyone would actually care if we just pretended like that one never existed.
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2013-05-14, 05:05 | Link #132 |
Labda Prakarsa Nirwikara
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Will this game actually have offline skirmish? As in, I can play against AI's without connecting to the net? Cuz with my crappy connection, online games are just impossible for me, free to play or not.
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2013-05-14, 05:10 | Link #133 | |
Logician and Romantic
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Micro transaction and F2P = online only.
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2013-08-16, 20:56 | Link #136 | |
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TB4 was designed to be a game changer....but the studio probably ran out of monies and...well...sucks. (I suspect a major reason is because EA spent a whole ton of money hiring movie stars and swimsuit models when they should be busy designing an real game)
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2013-08-17, 13:58 | Link #138 |
Master of Coin
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I didn't mind Kane, but it was just weird how Red Alert II and C&C 3 had so many actors from Hollywood when some random actress could had served. The old school C&C had only 2-3 actors a side, but C&C3 had to get a whole bunch of sci-fi stars, some are redundant from each other.
And then C&C4 they hire some crap actress to be your wife. W-T-F was that?
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2013-10-29, 19:11 | Link #139 |
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And... its been canned, along with everyone in the studio getting fired.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/...studios-closed After watching a few streams of it, sadly its for the most part just another "lets dumb down RTS" attempt. Yeah, wake up game industry, RTS are the LAST genre that would ever work on! The hell do you think RTS fans play it for.
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