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[Korbac]

I am guilty of purchasing Football Manager 2014.

How the hell did they make the interface more boring than Football Manager 2005?

"Well, actually, what this program needs is a lack of ambient music and more of a white spreadsheet feel."

[werty892]

DUNGEON KEEPER WAS MY CHILDHOOD YOU MOTHERFUCKERS AND YOU HAD TO FUCK IT UP! I STILL REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I BEAT THE ORIGINAL. YOU KNOW WHAT IT FELT LIKE? VICTORY. YOU KNOW WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE? GETTING MY VICTORY TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND SHOVED THROUGH SATANS ASSHOLE. YOU COULDN'T JUST LEAVE IT ALONE! NOW, I CAN NEVER READ, PLAY, OR EVEN LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL 2 WITHOUT BEING REMINDED OF THIS. ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

* werty892 goes and cries in a corner

[misko27]

I wish I hadn't been too poor to get the originals.

I think the worst part about this was that I came to the topic thinking to chastise for use of "officially" in the title. Then I took a look at what had been done, and thought "Nope, that is absolutely the right word".

[Stuebi]

I dont buy EA-Stuff anymore. Simply because they sell subpar, bugridden, microtransaction-filled and generally worsening stuff the more time passes. I want that company to die horribly, just like THQ did after simliar BS.

Also, the very same goes for the mobile market. For every halfway decent game, there are 50 ripoffs that just try to milk you for your money. I think the last two Games wehre I was actually satisifed with my purchase, were Kingdom Rush and its sequel.

[Aklyon]

The mobile market isn't going to change unless something drastic happens, its in the same state games in general were in before you had to have a license to make console games, I think.

[BFEL]

Give it about 20 years. Then we'll have to drop 6000 bucks for our phones not to scream at us for five minutes. And by "have to" I mean "you won't be able to stop it the sane way (dropping it in a fire, hopefully started in EA offices) because it will be bolted to your head. And you'll have PAID to have it bolted to your head."

[Teneb]

The mobile market isn't going to change unless something drastic happens, its in the same state games in general were in before you had to have a license to make console games, I think.

So we are to expect a crash in the mobile game market as happened in the console before. Hopefully the impact on non-mobile areas will be minimal.

[nenjin]

The mobile market isn't going to change unless something drastic happens, its in the same state games in general were in before you had to have a license to make console games, I think.

So we are to expect a crash in the mobile game market as happened in the console before. Hopefully the impact on non-mobile areas will be minimal.

I honestly think it's coming. Mobile developer outfits are growing like weeds right now, and the business model is unsustainable. They'll do what Zygna did. Get huge, spend too much money expecting themselves to be a fixture in the gaming landscape then watch the market retreat, lay off developers or shutter it entirely. Much of mobile is simply leveraging this new format and the amount of suckers interested in it. When it becomes old hat, they're not going to be in a position to get the kind of profits they're currently fantasizing about.

[Aklyon]

The mobile market isn't going to change unless something drastic happens, its in the same state games in general were in before you had to have a license to make console games, I think.

So we are to expect a crash in the mobile game market as happened in the console before. Hopefully the impact on non-mobile areas will be minimal.

Well, I'd hope things don't have to crash, that would be terrible for the people involved. But it certainly looks similar to what I've read about the old times.

[Korbac]

The mobile market isn't going to change unless something drastic happens, its in the same state games in general were in before you had to have a license to make console games, I think.

So we are to expect a crash in the mobile game market as happened in the console before. Hopefully the impact on non-mobile areas will be minimal.

Well, I'd hope things don't have to crash, that would be terrible for the people involved. But it certainly looks similar to what I've read about the old times.

I wouldn't like it to happen either, but I guess that's what you get for supporting a industry which enjoys being derivative and ripping people off. :/

[Sigulbard]

"This just in: users on an internet discussion board have made the stunning revelation that EA might in fact be ruining their favorite game franchises. What will this mean to the gaming industry and is EA truly not the savior of gaming, but quite in fact the opposite?

More on this at 9:30"

[Max White]

Total Biscuit asks: Is this why we can't have nice things?

[Remuthra]

Worse than Ultima: Ascension?

[Aklyon]

Worse than Ultima: Ascension?

Depends on how bad you'd consider this to be:

It takes an unholy dump on the corpse of a venerated franchise. EA has taken the series tagline 'Evil is good' a little too seriously.

[Remuthra]

Worse than Ultima: Ascension?

Depends on how bad you'd consider this to be:

It takes an unholy dump on the corpse of a venerated franchise. EA has taken the series tagline 'Evil is good' a little too seriously.

Sounds like Ultima: Ascension to me.