Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:40:
But yeah, every EA game needs to move 3-5 million units. And I can tell you that terrifies them (it does every publisher) and that they're desperately trying to find a way to change that (as is every publisher.)

SimplyMonk wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 14:11:
EA CTO talks about the "Big Data" that their online games are generating and what they are doing with it. More of an architecture discussion for handling big data sets than anything else, but thought that some here might find it interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK_PXlbvOfM

netnerd85 wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:27:
Thief Youtube Coverage Trailer
"Dis is teef"

Sorry, what? What is teef?

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:02:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:59:
Come on, they made DE:HR and it was awesome. Give them a little faith.

Creston

You mean like the boss fights?

No. Faith is earned.

Slashman wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 08:56:

Dmitri_M wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 08:18:
Galciv 2 was good and I hope they're working on a follow up.

GalCiv was boring as heck to me. I just don't get the way people view it as some kind of 4x second coming.

It had an entire ship design section with a gajillion components that did not matter. All that mattered was laser 1, laser 2, shield 1, shield 2.

The research tree was boring and about the only thing I can get from people about it was that the AI was impressive.

Topevoli wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:45:
If you load money onto a prepaid credit card it is not backed by the FDIC.

Also laws are great when the offenders are held accountable. These same banks that had to adhere to laws are also constantly lobbying to change them in their favor.

I'm not (trying) to troll, I am merely stating that this guy is no less credible than the average credit issuing bank.

In fact, he actually has to be accountable for his actions (or lack of action) as proven by his current predicament.

Bhruic wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:46:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:09:
Obviously I see the differences between Arma3 and WarZ, but I still would much rather Steam not allow Alphas on there.

They don't really have a choice. They want to alpha test it, but they have gone the "integrated Steamworks" approach. So there's no real way to get it tested without going through Steam. And since Valve wants companies to use Steamworks (more money for them), they aren't likely to throw anything in the way of companies going this route.

Agent.X7 wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:24:
Often the marketing budget is equal to the development budget or more. Did you really think that million dollar statue of Isaac was going to sell more games?

If they'd rein in the spending and stop paying upper management money that they aren't worth, they could make all the Dead Space games they wanted.

ASeven wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:12:
http://i.imgur.com/vV8PLqv.jpg

Wallshadows wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:04:
The lawsuit brought on to Monster should be thrown out of court and the mother should be held liable for gross negligence and capitalizing on her daughter's death (if that's even a crime).

You have a kid frequenting Starbucks and regularly consuming energy drinks with a heart condition, it's either shitty parenting on not educated the kid and the dangers of caffeine consumption, mom not paying attention to daughter, or the kid was just a Darwin-award waiting to happen.

...or it could just be natural and is a classic case of correlation does not imply causation but try slipping that one by on a parent who's on the warpath to cash-in rather than being responsible and could have prevented this whole mess to start with.

Topevoli wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:41:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:17:
I wouldn't trust Kim StupidName with a stale crust of bread, much less with any of my actual money.

Creston

As opposed to your bank?

Verno wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 09:51:
I know indies paved the way for this but I am really iffy about alpha stuff being on Steam, it just doesn't seem like a good precedent to set even with all of their other efforts at curation.