http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/01/03/opinion-ea-and-dice-have-broken-consumer-trust.aspx

Yikes. Just when you thought "how can it get any worse"?

Why wouldn't they do that? No one seem to hold game industry responsible for anything, neither consumers nor any official authorities, so how is it a surprise when a half finished game gets released. Again.

This is why I appreciate Rockstar. They actually listen to their fans (to a reasonable degree). Ever since the timed-DLC release (of 14 months) of GTA IV, Rockstar hasn't taken money for a timed exclusive since.

EA just continues to [censored] on all the people that buy their games. That's why I buy their games pre-owned, and I've only bought 1, in the past few years for console: NHL 12...after NHL 14 was released.

Just how broken is Battlefield 4?

This is why I am still apprehensive about Inquisition. While the game looks much improved, it still is EA. All I can do is wait and watch. EA is in some very serious trouble with its investors at the moment as well who are accusing them of lying to them. If EA doesn't do something to turn its attitude around the sims 3 might not even be enough to save them.

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I don't have BF4. It looked cheap as hell in the beta. They swore it would be content implemented when it launched, but I've been in enough [censored] betas to know better.

Rockstar too.

And here I thought there hasn't been any kind of consumer trust of EA in over 5 years. Does this mean there are still people who haven't woken up to the kind of company EA is?

that link is not fact, its someones "Opinion", as stated in the name of the article,

Jack, you should edit your OP to state it is one person "Opinion", because the way the OP looks atm makes it look like you are trying to push it out as fact.

How can you honestly say they haven't?

I fail to see how this is so outrageous? They released a MASSIVE game with MASSIVE effects(freaking skyscraqers falling), of course it's going to be buggy as hell. From what I read, EA is making the devs at DICE work their asses off to fix it.

Gamers are one hundred percent the whiniest [censored]es on the planet.

And that attitude is a big part of the problem i mentioned.

If MP doesn't work for this type of game, it's worthless. They honestly should be giving refunds. It'd be like buying a scratched music disk and the store telling you 'tough, that's what you get.'

I bought BF4 on a PC that should have been able to handle it on High settings at around 40 FPS. I played for about 8 hours, and there was nothing but lag and servers just not working. I tried lowering my settings, all the way down, but the lag still persisted. My internet is fine, I can play any other multiplayer game without issue. But BF4 wouldn't run properly. Luckily, I bought it just in time for EA's new return policy(I'm actually not sure if its new, but they were advertising it like it was). So I just returned the game and got my money back. I feel sorry for the people that really love battlefield who want it to work.

In no way is this limited to Battlefield 4. Every single game EA published is met with controversy it seems. I've never seen anything like it.

They released a game that is supposed to be done and free of game-ruining bugs. And it wasn't, and still isn't, even 3 months after release. That is a problem, its not just "whining gamers".

Yeh, I bought BF4 when it released on PC.

Had none stop connectivity problems, games crashing, been kicked off and my rank reset constantly. I stopped playing for a couple of months, hoping that it had been fixed, tried it a few days ago, got kicked off a game in the middle of it, no kills recorded.

Never have I seen before such a shambolic game.

Likely what happened is the release date was set too early so Dice had to rush things without proper QA testing. And now they have to rush to fix it, all the while EA leering over them. But hey, if you want to sleep with the devil...

because they have not..

they still release titles that sell extremely well, they have one of the most helpful 24/7 support lines for any dev/publisher, and they always try very hard to fix game breaking issues (they currently have a team working overtime to try and fix BF4s issues)..

Seriously, don't believe everything you read on some gaming site, as gaming journalists are among the most unnecessarily hostile of the entire journalism field..



EDIT: Once again, i request you edit the OP to show that the article you are linking is someones "Opinion", and stop trying to pass it off as fact

...What?

It's their job to hire bug testers and find/fix these bugs before release. You really don't see the problem with them using paying customers as beta testers?

It's not just journalism. This thread is full of horror stories already.

I've found glitches in the single player campaign here and there but nothing to bad, I haven't tried multiplier yet and I doubt I ever will.

Why is that every time a FPS shooter hits the market it's judged more on it's mutiplayer rather then it's single player campaign. I don't play mutiplayer and solely judge the game based on it's single player. This is why I get annoyed at some people when they say games like Call of Duty or Battlefield svcks solely on it's mutiplayer...I doubt a lot of those people even bother playing the story mode .

MP is the bread and butter of military FPS. You can cruise through the campaign in 8 hrs and there's no replay value, but gamers will stick to MP for months. They're not meant to be SP games really. SP is there because it's expected.

A few hundred payed testers can do a lot. The hundreds or thousands who are playing every possible scenario in the game are going to turn up a lot more.

@Jack People have been mad at EA since the hissy fit that was thrown over ME3. It has a lot less actual problems and a lot more with reputation at this point, in my opinion.


Did they try and get it out of the door too fast? Probably, but that's business, and no matter the business time will always be money. They're doing what they can, and in six months BF4 will likely be magnificent.

Dragon Age 2 actually. Or was it ME2? Tiberian Twilight? I don't remember anymore, there have been so many hissyfits in reaction to EA's games. The ME3 one was probably the biggest, though