Jack9 wrote on May 11, 2013, 03:08:
This kind of idiocy is probably why your marginal views end up here. Can't be science fiction with drama, no siree. If a show doesnt (insert random fantasy, like exploring the the impact of technology X) pander to your tastes, it's a soap opera. Amirite?

Cutter wrote on May 11, 2013, 01:33:
I'll agree that TNG didn't hit its stride until season 3 but the first 2 were hardly "bad". Defiance is tripe. Utter tripe. So it's not me who isn't the sci-fi fan.

Tanto Edge wrote on May 10, 2013, 17:36:
I thot this show was terrible.
Has it improved since the first episodes?

Mr. Tact wrote on May 11, 2013, 00:32:
Even if Defiance is bad, you aren't much of a sci-fi fan if you are giving up on the show after only four episodes.

jdreyer wrote on May 10, 2013, 14:20:
Also, this is pretty damning:

InBlack wrote on May 9, 2013, 09:18:
Since this is DICE and EA, I have some trouble believing that a DoS attack is keeping their servers down for a 'couple' of days. Im thinking that their infrastucture was poorly operated and the whole thing came crashing down and now they are fixing it and invented this DoS bullshit so they dont end up looking bad.

Dev wrote on May 8, 2013, 21:23:
8m (current) to 12m (peak) is 50%. Thats not insignificant.

Wallshadows wrote on May 8, 2013, 23:06:
Devil's advocate but the game is nearly 10 years old, of course it'll start to dip in subscription numbers.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on May 9, 2013, 00:23:

How long have we been saying we want SP and MP as separate entities?

I'm not so sure about that. Remember Unreal 2? How it had this awesome multiplayer that was cut at the last minute because Atari wanted "Unreal 2 to be SP and Unreal Tournament to be multiplayer"? And how Unreal 2 while pretty alright as a single player game didn't have enough content or spark to sustain an audience? And then, when sales failed to meet expecations, they patched back in the XMP multiplayer mode, and it remains one of the best multiplayer shooters ever? But by that time, Unreal 2 had failed at retail, and not enough people had a copy of Unreal 2 to sustain a community for the new multiplayer?

I'd be willing to bet that Unreal 2 would've been a much more successful game, both successful financially, and successful for those who tried to be a part of a new multiplayer community for a dying game, had they actually shipped a complete SP/MP product.

MajorD wrote on May 8, 2013, 10:14:
That's all part of their roadmap with gearing up the cookie-cutter-machine to recycle the SOS BF games that was so successful for Activision with CoD.

UttiniDaKilrJawa wrote on May 6, 2013, 12:43:

ViRGE wrote on May 6, 2013, 09:27:
Most F2P games are right up there with collectable card games in terms of how dishonest they are about the real cost to play the game on a competitive level. So the fact that he brings up MechWarrior Tactics - itself based on a CCG - is fitting. Most F2P games won't be quite so blatant, but they're following the same general system.

hmm and hear I thought Mechwarrior Tactics was based on BattleTech....not MW:Dark Ages, but THE BattleTech.

Cutter wrote on May 1, 2013, 10:59:
It's likely they're not looking to get rich on this but punish Sega/Gearbox and open the way more easily for a class-action suit. Let's hope they win.

BadIronTree wrote on Apr 28, 2013, 16:06:

Cutter wrote on Apr 28, 2013, 14:41:
I'm sure that'll make both people interested in this very happy.

LoL do you know any other MMO that 10 years after it came out is still getting BIGGER with more and more subscribers ?
from 350k it went to HALF a million now...

Redmask wrote on Apr 27, 2013, 15:53:
Costs too much money and PAX makes more sense anyway.

vrok wrote on Apr 27, 2013, 17:05:
Google has nothing to do with the issue. The author of that article is just ignorant. It's all up to OEMs and carriers. Google has no part in it.

Beamer wrote on Apr 25, 2013, 09:22:

Verno wrote on Apr 25, 2013, 09:19:
No surprise here, EAs future plans seem to be doubling down on internal projects and microtransactions. Shame, Partners had some very creative stuff released but ultimately EA is more focused on things they can iterate on every year, their entire business is structured around it now.

I'd call it a huge surprise.