Congrats on coming up with one of the single dumbest statements I have ever read on this forum.

And thanks for that intelligent response. The reason I stated that I dislike EA Sports games is because I've played them, as have many of my hardcore gamer friends. Are they all that bad? Not really no. But the fact is that they do not garner the ratings that they are getting. The fact that a number of game sites give them similar ranking is irrelevant. I earlier used GameSpot as an example, for the fact that they give just about every EA title (not every one, but most) high ratings. Most other sites do too. If you look around, you'll see very few sites willing to really take a stab at EA games. And when EA releases a game that's so bad or unpolished that they just can't give it something near the top (and this does happen), they still give it a rating that's low, but higher than the title deserves. NFS Undergound and Nascar Thunder 2004 aren't bad, but they aren't that great and neither are the other EA titles out there. Many publishers are guilty of pushing out unfinished, untested garbage or just trying to milk a long-standing series, but EA has consistently been the worst at this. Many modern gamers buy titles purely because of reviews (though many won't admit it; these are usually the casual gamers who fall into this category) and when they spent a lot of money on a highly-rated title that they now can't return, they'll learn to like it. I personally believe that if a lot of large publisher games out there got more realistic ratings, they would sell more relative to what they should based on their quality.

The fact is that you say my statement is dumb because people continue to buy EA Sports games. Well, almost no one here agrees that Enter the Matrix was a good game, but that sold didn't it? Will its sequel sell too? Yes it will! Simply because many gamers see the name and bought it. Will people buy the next NHL and NFL games despite that they're paying $50 just to get an updated team roster and slightly improved engine? Absolutely they will. I remember back in the good old days where you paid like $9.99 for a roster expansion disc to a sports title. You got the updated players that you wanted to stay current, but you weren't paying for the SAME GAME over and over again. That's where my problem is. People are willing to do that, but they are calling the Tomb Raider series dead after one game that didn't do so hot. See what I'm getting at? Probably not, but oh well, I tried.


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This comment was edited on Feb 29, 19:23.