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[BruceVC]

  On 4/10/2019 at 12:31 AM, injurai said:

 

  On 4/9/2019 at 5:36 PM, BruceVC said:

https://www.pcgamer.com/new-games-2019/

 

Great list of upcoming games for 2019 

 

In a very real sense the video games industry seems over-saturated.

 

 

 

It does feel like that at times, we are almost overwhelmed by choice    I  suppose you can see it as " glass as half-full " , it reminds me of all the available TV shows...you cant watch\play everything so you just have to be selective 

 

I must have about  20 games I have yet to play on Steam ...Im bad I know 

[bugarup]

So Kotaku keeps kicking Bioware while its down. In short: RIP Dragon Age 4. 

[Chilloutman]

at this point its more like

[BruceVC]

  On 4/10/2019 at 6:18 AM, bugarup said:

So Kotaku keeps kicking Bioware while its down. In short: RIP Dragon Age 4. 

But DA4 isnt RIP,  its been recreated according to the article. See the quote below 

 

 " A tiny team stuck around to work on a brand new Dragon Age 4, code-named Morrison, that would be built on Anthem’s tools and codebase. It’s the game being made now. Unlike Joplin, this new version of the fourth Dragon Age is planned with a live service component, built for long-term gameplay and revenue. One promise from management, according to a developer, was that in EA’s balance sheet, they’d be starting from scratch and not burdened with the two years of money that Joplin had already spent. Question was, how many of those ideas and prototypes would they use? "

[Chilloutman]

Unlike Joplin, this new version of the fourth Dragon Age is planned with a live service component, built for long-term gameplay and revenue.

 

dead

[bugarup]

  On 4/10/2019 at 9:53 AM, Chilloutman said:

Unlike Joplin, this new version of the fourth Dragon Age is planned with a live service component, built for long-term gameplay and revenue.

 

As I said, yeah, RIP. Anyway -- Dylan, Morrison, Joplin...someone into muzik of the sixties.   So, who do you guys think was Andromeda initially named after?

[Mamoulian War]

Dunno, but it looked like something what should be called N-Sync

[Malcador]

  On 4/10/2019 at 10:57 AM, bugarup said:

 

  On 4/10/2019 at 9:53 AM, Chilloutman said:

Unlike Joplin, this new version of the fourth Dragon Age is planned with a live service component, built for long-term gameplay and revenue.

 

As I said, yeah, RIP. Anyway -- Dylan, Morrison, Joplin...someone into muzik of the sixties.   So, who do you guys think was Andromeda initially named after?

 

 

 

Naming projects after people who died too soon was probably a bad idea.

[injurai]

  On 4/10/2019 at 12:19 PM, Malcador said:

 

  On 4/10/2019 at 10:57 AM, bugarup said:

 

  On 4/10/2019 at 9:53 AM, Chilloutman said:

Unlike Joplin, this new version of the fourth Dragon Age is planned with a live service component, built for long-term gameplay and revenue.

 

As I said, yeah, RIP. Anyway -- Dylan, Morrison, Joplin...someone into muzik of the sixties.   So, who do you guys think was Andromeda initially named after?

 

 

 

Naming projects after people who died too soon was probably a bad idea.

 

 

Future EA projects to be:

 

Bullfrog

Westwood

Origin

Pandemic

Mythic

Maxis

Visceral

BioWare

[Amentep]

The bottom line, for me, is that if I have to be online to play DA4, I won't buy it despite liking all of the games.  Same is true for any future game by Bioware.

 

And since EA seems to have married the idea of games as a service, I've already built my expectations that Mass Effect Andromeda was the last Bioware game I'm likely to play.

 

EDIT: Didn't see this posted, so...

 

[BruceVC]

  On 4/10/2019 at 1:17 PM, Amentep said:

The bottom line, for me, is that if I have to be online to play DA4, I

 

What is the aversion to the game being online, Im sure there are several reasons but what would your reasons be?

 

I dont have a problem with this type of design  strategy but I may be missing something 

[Katphood]

  On 4/10/2019 at 9:53 AM, Chilloutman said:

Joplin

 

dead

Joplin was seventeen, working on a desk when...

[Oner]

Edited April 10, 2019 by Oner

[Katphood]

You can finally change your PSN id but:https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-04-10-you-can-finally-change-your-playstation-id-name-but-sony-warns-of-potential-issues

 

Doesn't seem to be worth the trouble, for now at least...

[Amentep]

  On 4/10/2019 at 3:04 PM, BruceVC said:

 

  On 4/10/2019 at 1:17 PM, Amentep said:

The bottom line, for me, is that if I have to be online to play DA4, I

 

What is the aversion to the game being online, Im sure there are several reasons but what would your reasons be?

 

I dont have a problem with this type of design  strategy but I may be missing something 

 

 

I don't ever want to be forced to have to play with another human being.  And if you're not forcing me to play with another human being there is zero rational reason to require the game to always be online.  I've only ever played Diablo III on consoles for this reason.

[Katphood]

The name change for the PSN id is ridicilous! Basically, if you want to change your id and you still play PS3 games, you're f-d.

 

Well done, Sony...

[the_dog_days]

  On 4/10/2019 at 4:44 PM, Amentep said:

 

  On 4/10/2019 at 3:04 PM, BruceVC said:

 

  On 4/10/2019 at 1:17 PM, Amentep said:

The bottom line, for me, is that if I have to be online to play DA4, I

 

What is the aversion to the game being online, Im sure there are several reasons but what would your reasons be?

 

I dont have a problem with this type of design strategy but I may be missing something

I don't ever want to be forced to have to play with another human being. And if you're not forcing me to play with another human being there is zero rational reason to require the game to always be online. I've only ever played Diablo III on consoles for this reason.

It also kills modding which used to be the lifeblood of BioWare games.

[LadyCrimson]

  On 4/10/2019 at 4:44 PM, Amentep said:

I don't ever want to be forced to have to play with another human being.  And if you're not forcing me to play with another human being there is zero rational reason to require the game to always be online.  I've only ever played Diablo III on consoles for this reason.

Agree.

 

If I'm going to play an MMO where that's just the game genre, that's one thing. If it's supposed to be a single-player game, always-online is a no-buy. I shouldn't have to be always-online for SP, which maybe I want to play on a laptop or when the internet has gone out or whatever else. And if the always-online is simply because they want to make sure you can always buy their microtransactions or get "important announcements" (for a SP game...), pffft. If I want to buy mcrot's I'll go online when and if I'm ready to spend.

Edited April 10, 2019 by LadyCrimson

[kanisatha]

  On 4/10/2019 at 6:18 AM, bugarup said:

So Kotaku keeps kicking Bioware while its down. In short: RIP Dragon Age 4. 

A very interesting ... and sad read. I was so looking forward to DA4. I still hope it eventually turns out good as a single-player game, but if it is an MP game with SP as a secondary afterthought I can't see myself buying it.

[Sarex]

After DA3 I lost all hope for Bioware and their games. They lost their drive to make anything original, instead they decided to pander to the lowest common denominator by making it an open space elder scrolls wanna be.

[injurai]

Its not even an Elder Scrolls wanna be. It's more like an extremely ****ty WoW.

[Humanoid]

If it was just DA3 but with co-op enabled I'd totally be into it. But just like Bethesda, they don't understand that we just want a small-scale 2-4 player experience with friends, not the entire world. Only Larian seems to get that.

[Katphood]

Well, for one reason or another, BioWare/EA have completely lost faith in single-player games.

[melkathi]

A shame about Breach shutting down the server at the end of the month. The game had potential.

[Mamoulian War]

  On 4/11/2019 at 7:16 AM, Katphood said:

Well, for one reason or another, BioWare/EA have completely lost faith in single-player games.

You can't exploit **** out of your players in single player game as good as in "Live Service" even if poor implemented. It's not about faith. It's the public traded companies goal of earning all of the money in the world by whatever means, instead of having lower but steady cashflow from maximally satisfied and happy customers.