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Unfortunately, the target audience of EA actually *is* those kids who spend their parents' money on whatever crap that's being hyped at the moment and then forget about it half a year later, ready to buy the next crap. There's also a gigantic blob of casual players who play FIFA, Sims, maybe some Battlefield every full moon... people who don't engage in communities, don't read the media, don't play multiple times a week... people who don't want to hear about loot box drama or some niche game being hacked. People who are just happy to spend their money on the 10th, 11th, 12th installment every year without having to put too much thought into it. As long as those people keep feeding them, EA is doing just fine and they can afford to ignore smaller/older titles, including the few thousand people who are still playing them.
One might think that one single, mentally unstable guy completely destroying two of their beloved games might damage their reputation in the long run. But their reputation has been among the worst in the industry since forever and they can affort to just roll with it.
I also remember times when the "Arts" in Electronic Arts stood for something, but those days are long gone and it's just another big factory somewhere in the world...
@DeadEcho82 Absolutely - I'm in the same boat. I've pre-ordered every version of Battlefield for the PC starting with 1942. Even played it competitively starting with the Desert Combat mod through BF3. The only one I didn't purchase was Hardline because I played the beta and it just felt like a re-skinned version of BF4, not something new. I'm not buying 2042, as much as I may want to. Not until we Titanfall fans - again, I pre-ordered both versions and spent some on cosmetics in TF2 - get our due.
That means:
1. They're still selling both games on Steam and Origin. They need to restore and secure the servers from this jack-hole that is causing all the troubles.
- or -
2. Stop selling them.
3. Give us Titanfall 3. When I was the moderator of the official Respawn Titanfall 2 forums, the Respawn employed Community Manager told us that TF3 was coming, under active development, all the way up until the forums shut down and these were opened. Promises were made to the community by the Respawn representative.
Titanfall and Titanfall 2 are unique games that opened up an entirely new way of movement in the game and made piloting the Titans perfect. I'm also a hard-core Mechwarrior fan, from back when it was called Battletech, and you played it with pen, paper, and dice. I've played most versions of MechWarrior. As many little issues as there were with both versions, the games were beyond awesome. It wouldn't take much to have made them absolutely perfect - and to have Respawn abandon it like that, and abandon us as fans like that is disgusting.
Apex Legends is a bad joke, like all battle royale games. I hated the version of it they put in BFV, and won't try any others. Apex Legends, right now, is nothing but a cash-cow that they're milking, and as long as they have that, they don't care about any of the other fans. Look at the *-poor installment they put out in the Star Wars game. No mutiplayer, and that was after Vince Zampalla made a lot of noise about not needing single player in games, that single player games are over.
I've created a couple of cases about Titanfall 2 with EA over the last couple weeks. Both have been closed without comment. I've contacted EA Help on Facebook and Twitter, with no response in several days.
This is THE WORST customer service of any company I've dealt with, and I've had to deal with Comcast customer service, so that means something. I can't believe the abhorrent service, the total lack of regard for their fans, and complete and total disregard for the negative press that's coming out about this.
I will never buy another EA game until these things are fixed. I bought Skate or Die! as one of my first games back in 1982 when I was 15 years old. I have been buying EA games since then, and I'm now 53 years old. I will not buy games for my children or my grandchildren from EA games anymore. Especially since they love Titanfall as well. I have talked friends out of buying EA products over this. I've spent the last eight or nine years in digital marketing - I'm even considering starting a marketing campaign about this. I mean - if they're treating Titanfall fans like this, and they did something simliar with BF:V by not delivering on the promises made and abruptly abandoning the game, how much longer can we count on the Battlefield franchise to be supported? How about Apex Legends? What happens when Respawn devs get tired of that game? How about their sports games - how long until they just put out half-done parts of that?
- 4 years ago@Magikf1ngers I also love the Mechwarrior/Battletech games. I always wanted to get into the board game, but there are no players in my area. But I have two miniatures standing next to my monitor, a Thor and a Madcat (kinda resembling the MW3 intro as they march into the city).
Skate or Die! on Game Boy got me into skateboarding when I was a little kid, my other life long obsession. Titanfall gives me a similar feeling, like skating through the maps with cool guns. The movement is just great. No other game nails it so perfectly. Apex is just a joke in that regard.