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Seasoned RPG devs from Obsidian and Bioware blame the temporary death of the isometric CRPG on 'vibes-based forecasting' from retailers (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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"I can't stress enough how often I'd hear a retail rep declare a genre/style/look was dead with zero supporting data."

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[–] emptyother@programming.dev 37 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I'm no fan of sports games. I dont play sports games. Also the kind of people I hang with also dislike sports games. And the last sport games I read about, a decade ago, had horrible reviews and awful graphics. So therefor I declare the Sports game genre for dead! /s

[–] Lath@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The /s is not needed. I was quite impressed to hear that EA Sports is one of the main money makers of EA despite having each new game as a buggier version of a previous one, only with an updated roster. I had no idea they were so popular and the last FIFA I played properly was in 2003.
So we are out there and we do think like that.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Did you know that EA lost the FIFA license? FIFA decided that they wanted the whole cake so they’ve taken to developing the future FIFA games themselves.

EA is obviously continuing to develop their golden cow, now called EA Sports FC.

[–] Lath@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I didn't. Huh. Still, golden cow is right. Because what it produces is still a pile of manure.

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Considering the way they responded to ESPN football back when I was younger, I cheer on every time I hear bad things about EA Sports.

For those too young or who don't recall... ESPN (or I should say, a company who licensed ESPN) came out with a budget football game 2000ish. They charged $20 for it, and it blew that year's Madden game out of the water in terms of quality and reviews. It was situated to force the industry to pivot from AAA to lovingly-crafted AA titles by teams that clearly cared about the product being fun.

So EA gave the NFL a metric fuckton of money for exclusivity to murder the competition.

The end.

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