EA Finalizes DICE Acquisition

I think that pretty much makes it concrete that DICE is stuck on the Battlefield franchise for a long, long time now. They have, if I remember, 3 studios around the world so hopefully they'll get to do new IP's that are NOT Battlefield related. But who knows. I'm interested in whats going to happen to their North American (London, ON. Canada) studio.

Out of curiosity, has anyone interviewing DICE or EA ever asked, straight up, why they knowingly ship buggy games?

EA is using Unreal 3, right? I want DICE to use it. More stable, works well online (I assume), is gorgeous. Mmmm.

Normally it would be time to say "another good developer bites the dust" but I dont think DICE were too good to begin with.

Sure, bf1942 was a fun game, but it had a lot of problems, including horrible infantry combat and terrible bugs, with a few dodgy gameplay designs (musical bases anyone?)

BF2 was just 1942 set in the 'near-futur!' but stunningly it still had poor infantry combat (it was better, but still painfull), horribly overpowered vehicles and even more bugs. Musical bases was back, and 10x worse. The shitty patch cycle didnt really help, with one recalled patch and another patch that really should have been recalled as well.

Now we have 2142, which is again 1942 but now in the 'distant-futur!' but has the same stale musical bases, one or two things ripped directly from other games and again infantry combat is horribly jerky and unrewarding. Judging from the beta, its also going to be chock full of bugs and have even more booster packs.

I hope EA kills them off quickly. BF is dead to me now, sadly. And unless they manage to pull out a miraculous save with the next one (2142?) then I cant see people really flocking to it like they have in the past.

Is this the same DICE that develops(ed) Rallisport Challenge?

Battlefield 2007
Battlefield 2008 ....

What is the next progression in Battlefields?

My prediction : a graphical overhaul of BF1942 is next on the plate.

Battlefield Classic.

Dear EA + DICE:

Fix your broken buggy games before releasing a new one.
Fix your broken buggy games before releasing a new one.
Fix your broken buggy games before releasing a new one.
Fix your broken buggy games before releasing a new one.

EA: This is how we roll.

Get it? Dice? Roll? Sorry I got nothin'...

UNLEASH THE HATERS!

I hope they got enough lube to last the year!

...another one bites the dust!

maybe now, EA will get rid of all the incompitent DICE employees (mainly their programers) and pull in some people that can make the BF games without as many bugs

So how long till everyone leaves and EA quietly shuts the studio down?

indeed mate indeed, sad
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we just gotta wait til gfx cant improve no more so ea cant bring out rehashes of old games with beefed up gfx nad minor gameplay changes

then they wil have to actaully think harder "what can we make gameplay better with"

unlike the probable thoughts now at ea, how much money can we wring from these titles, deosnt matter if its destroying some of their titles credibilitys on the way
cause money makes the world go round and they just buy out another company

wonder if anyone actually has a brainstorming session meetings at ea, and after hours and hours they come up with just adding the current year to the game title

ill stop now

just like a cancer :(