Condolences.

I’ve been working on this for a little under four years or so. Started on Xbox 360, and transferred my save over to the Xbox One version and kept working. Hack away at it every couple of months:

Because Publishers (Take Two Interactive, in this case). Developers have no say on this stuff. Publishers (the one’s putting up the money) prod incessantly for a dev team to commit to a binary release date in order to give the marketing and PR wings some landing strip for promotional blowout, to generate interest from…

Keyword April lol. Minecraft has 122 million units sold. It’s one of the best sellers on every platform it’s on, year round. That’s my point. Nier barely scratched the top 20 and Horizon is lower than game franchises that come out every year (COD/2K, etc), and or are 2-3 years old (GTA V/Rainbow Six Siege). Not a bad…

It’s a promotion version of Pitta. Only the base set cards are tied to the real world versions. Throughout the season, most players get multiple versions. Some, based on great individual games (Team of the Week), some based on a month (Man of the Month promo), some based on a season (Team of the Year), etc. This is a…

Building community in sports games is hard. FIFA and Madden do so much better almost exclusively because of Ultimate Team. 2K having so many modes and so much stuff to do is almost a detriment in the sense, with FIFA and Madden, like a fighting game, most people playing consistently play competitively (unless they’re…

It’ll go down as one of the most profitable games of all time. They bought it for a bargain price in the long run. Top game on iOs and Android, sells millions (still) on PS3/360, X1/PS4, and PC. WiiU, Switch. Would wager MS made their money back on the investment within 6-12 months of making the deal. 122 million…

Core gamers massively overestimate their influence on the market (of course, not referring to you, but in general terms). Casual audience is a much much bigger percentage of the pie. Unfortunately, this is why 3rd parties (and even Microsoft) are avoiding new IP. It doesn’t sell well enough in most cases to validate…

Being one of the best selling games of a quarter of a year isn’t that hard to do for the name brands and tentpole franchises. You’re correct, but that wouldn’t be the motivating factor one way or another for EA. Most big games release in the fall and winter holiday season so for the rare AAA (particularly upper…

Check this out if you don’t mind. In about 8 minutes, he thoroughly breaks down some of what you’re describing.

Yep. The only reason I didn’t mention that information originally, because Nintendo games almost never get discounts, and definitely not deep discounts. Also, even still, $15 vs $40 says a lot, in and of itself.

Still praying this (I own all the Xbox 360 versions of Street Fighter, minus the cross with Tekken) gets made backwards compatible. Dying to play this stuff on an Xbox One controller.

Indeed. I paid $5-$8 bucks for every version of Street Fighter II tied to my Xbox Microsoft account. Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II HD Remix, etc.

I’ve been studying the phenomenon for awhile. Minecraft is a very unique situation. Naturally, 122 million units sold comes from a variety of places. Transcendent game certainly. Contend it’s surpassed Mario for global impact.

I’m as big a proponent of games as a service as anyone. But, this is the kind of game where it’s unfortunate. Essentially, this is the early access version of NBA Playgrounds, except you’re not getting a discounted price. In six months, would wager it’ll have been completely overhauled at least once. Have actual…

Very close to having enough money saved to buy a brand new Core i5 or i7 Surface Pro 4 (with at least 8GB of RAM, may get more). Seeing this gets me very excited about having a Nintendo Switch like experience for full fledged Console/PC gaming on the go. Have been dying for a Surface Pro for over a year. That and my…

Check out Josher14 and Surface Pro Gamer on YouTube. I’ve seen them play a ton of stuff on it. Metal Gear Solid 5, League of Legends, Rocket League, Battlefield 1, Battlefield 4, Dolphin emulator for wii/gamecube games/etc, FIFA, NBA 2K, even GTA V on low settings. They both have tons of videos testing and playing…

This news had nothing to do with online outrage. EA is a multi billion dollar company. Criticism is inconsequential to them. This is happening because the game most likely underperformed sales wise (by a mile, at least, if they’re already reallocating teams). Mass Effect 3 had quadruple the outrage, and yet it’s still…

It all comes down to expectations. Edmonton team got those opportunities in large part because the original Mass Effect (and even 2 to some degree) had minor expectations to satisfy. As a result, both wildly exceeded expectations, allowing for the time to evolve with sequels. Andromeda was dead on arrival because it…

In the same boat as an avid Forza Motorsport 6 player. Had been trying to hold off buying another car game. The dam is broken..