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Banned
Because if there's one thing the shooter market needs right now is annualized Battlefield. As much as I liked BC2, I would really prefer for Visceral to do it's own thing.
Can't see how they would rotate Titanfall if they don't have the rights to anything but the first game.Didn't EA say their shooter rotation would be Battlefield/Titanfall/Battlefront?
Aren't they switching off with Ghost Games to release annual Need for Speed titles that look and play the same?What are Criterion doing then? With that few people could they be just working on concept for a new game or are they done for a while?
Can't see how they would rotate Titanfall if they don't have the rights to anything but the first game.
Didn't EA say their shooter rotation would be Battlefield/Titanfall/Battlefront?
Nice detective work Niro.
Now can you do me a favor and find evidence if Sledgehammer Games or Treyarch are working on 2014's CoD?
Dunno, but if the incident with EA signing the exclusivity deal with Microsoft is anything to go by, the relationship between EA and Respawn may have soured a bit.Yeah but what other publisher would they go to?
I would say that's a waste of talent... and then I remembered Dead Space 3.
I have to say, I can definitely understand the corporate suit logic of "OK, our bad for trying to make you turn your successful survival horror franchise into a mega-successful dudebro shooter. We realize it was a mistake. So instead, now we're making you do the next iteration of our established mega-successful dudebro shooter franchise."
The talent is still there, corporate exec interference was the real problem.
What's the word, man?Hi everyone.
So is EA going to adopt the ATVI strategy and have a couple dev teams tag-team their main shooter brand every other year such that there will be a new Battlefield every year?
He obviously can't say, but given that neither him nor Ian denied this, and EA hasn't either, I'm feeling pretty good about my prediction.What's the word, man?
Oh. Well I figured if he took the time to drop in like this, he'd have something to share. :/He obviously can't say, but given that neither him nor Ian denied this, and EA hasn't either, I'm feeling pretty good about my prediction.
Oh. Well I figured if he took the time to drop in like this, he'd have something to share. :/
We've always had multiple irons in the fire, always will. We typically have one game that's currently the "big production", one game with a small-ish pre-production team (about 20 people), and one or more that's in very early stages.
None of the things we're doing now have been announced officially, so I can't comment other than to say we're always doing more than one thing.
Is it?
You realize where sledgehammer games originally came from, right?
Yes, and after Dead Space 2 came out I saw that there was no great loss. And I still get a kick out of Schofield's sour grapes tweets about it.
There was certainly a drop off from 1 to 2, but obviously nowhere as bad as 2 to 3. 3 might as well have been a completely different series.
I knew an Ea FPS had to release next year. Something had to take the place of medal of honor. Something had to battle for that COD money. Ea is very predictable. I was expecting the game to be, until I read this, Battlefront. I was predicting a 2 year rush job and brand new biyearly companion to Battlefield. This makes more sense thankfully as my heart cannot take Battlefront launching as horrifyingly as B4.
Remember when the general consensus was that Titanfall would go to other platforms eventually because EA wouldn't be able to use it to compete with COD if it was Microsoft exclusive?I think most people expected that game to be TitanFall.
We already got something!: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=92659072&postcount=89
Note how he alleviates the concern that they're only working on Battlefield and Star Wars by listing out three projects, but does not actually deny the whole Battlefield part.
I wonder how much this is going to affect the BF4 expansion time table, and Visceral's game in general.Well I guess somebody had to, DICE are still busy fixing BF4.
EA isn't positioning Titanfall to be a COD killer. They're positioning it as a new IP.
They aren't mutually exclusive if you love putting all your eggs in one basket and potentially having it fail. As much hype as it's getting, it's still unproven and EA as already shown with Battlefield and Medal of Honor that they're more interested in positioning well known IPs against COD.And those are mutually exclusive... how?
They aren't mutually exclusive if you love putting all your eggs in one basket and potentially having it fail. As much hype as it's getting, it's still unproven and EA as already shown with Battlefield and Medal of Honor that they're more interested in positioning well known IPs against COD.
Also like I said right after: Why would EA try to make a IP they don't own from a company they don't have significant control over into their "COD Killer"?
Pretty big acqusition, I must say, for Visceral. If you want something to be a graphical, audio and stable experience, go for this guy.
I would rather have Visceral make a BF game than Criterion. Maybe make it a creepy BF game? If not, then just BC3.
Sledgehammer is definitely making a CoD game.
I haven't been able to nail that down for Treyarch, but they're still using Radiant so I would suspect they are.
Sledgehammer is doing the most hiring so I would guess they're next: https://twitter.com/SHGames
Yeah but what other publisher would they go to?
So, I don't play CoD or Battlefield, but would it be hypocritical for BF fans to buy an annual release franchise after ditching CoD?
Oh God NO, not Visceral.
Who says BF fans ditched CoD? They are wildly different first person shooters, liking one and not the other does not necessarily have anything to do with how they threat their customers.
So, I don't play CoD or Battlefield, but would it be hypocritical for BF fans to buy an annual release franchise after ditching CoD?
I was under the impression it would be Battlefield and Battlefront and Titanfall. Imagine if they released two of them every year (not 2 each, but 2 franchises in one year every year).
Tell that to the BF and CoD warriors who are fighting all the time.