Does EA honestly think consumers are stupid?

[Eaglesfan27]

Actually most of the Xbox 360 cards are only 64MB, not 512.

[Mota]

Originally Posted by Noble_Platypus

Maybe that is part of the answer. If they are selling a ton of games and everyone hears about them al of the time through marketing and tournaments why would they bother to make the game better? Its not hurting sales to just throw out what they have been.

I think a great game is usually made by someone who is truly passionate and loves what they're doing. EA games are made by people who have been worked like dogs, whipped into submission and essentially treated like crap for years (if you believe all the blogs that created the big stir last year).

I'd say we're lucky that we get semi-updated rosters, a few things added into the game (that were probably already in the current gen consoles), and a game that may or may not make it through to the end without crashing.

That's exactly why I haven't bought an EA sports game for 360 yet.

[Mota]

Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/20/fi...ea-gyps-again/

This kind of stuff is really getting old. Last gen systems can hold all kinds of information, but new systems cannot? Then we get fed the 'it took so much work to rebuild the engine that we didn't have time to input the stats for all the leagues'. I haven't bought an EA game in 3 years now and they're doing nothing to change my mine in the next generation. Unbelievable.

Perhaps they should have made the wise decision and waited to release one of their sports games until it was ready?

They have to be burning through the goodwill of the gamers by releasing crap like this on a yearly basis. At what point does a backlash occur? Or are we the only gamers that can see beyond the shiny chrome and realize that their games seem to be getting WORSE every year instead of better?

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by Mota

I think a great game is usually made by someone who is truly passionate and loves what they're doing. EA games are made by people who have been worked like dogs, whipped into submission and essentially treated like crap for years (if you believe all the blogs that created the big stir last year).

I'd say we're lucky that we get semi-updated rosters, a few things added into the game (that were probably already in the current gen consoles), and a game that may or may not make it through to the end without crashing.

That's exactly why I haven't bought an EA sports game for 360 yet.

I think you are right. You read posts by the VC programmers who are working on NBA2k7 on OS, and you can really sense the passion in their posts, and I think this game is most likely going to be the best sports game on the 360 yet.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by aran

Isn't there more space on modern memory cards/harddrives than there used to be? Even if the save size doubled or quadrupled, that still wouldn't matter. Storing a 2MB save on a modern SD card (512MB, most likely) beats the crap out of saving a 512kb save on a 4 or 8MB PS2 memory card.

I believe the native memory on a core 360 is just 64MB.

[stevew]

Supposedly the developer for the Wii version of Madden is not Tiburon, but rather some Canadian outfit(I think). I'm interested in whether it will be some steaming pile of poo, or entertaining since it is a different build, alledgedly.

[kingnebwsu]

I thought Tiburon was Canadian?

And as far as EA goes, I haven't purchased an EA product since summer of 2002 and I've been doing just fine thanks

[dervack]

Originally Posted by kingnebwsu

I thought Tiburon was Canadian?

And as far as EA goes, I haven't purchased an EA product since summer of 2002 and I've been doing just fine thanks

No, i believe Tiburon is fla. based.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by kingnebwsu

I thought Tiburon was Canadian?

No, Tiburon is located in a suburb of Orlando. EA Canada is in Vancouver, and they make (or they used to, not sure if they still do) EA's baseball and soccer games.