Les trolls vidéoludiques bien gras !

[D_Y]

Euh, je l'ai déjà dit

[Quizzman]

Ouais mais c'est pas le cas de l'UE3, surtout qu'avec lui on s'est tappés du Bioshock, GoW, Bioshock, Batman, qui sont loin d'être des jeux moches.

Sans oublier Bioshock.

Toutefois, n'oublions pas Bioshock.

[D_Y]

Ah ben ouais tiens

Heureusement que tu m'as quoté je l'aurais jamais vu sinon.

[BY2K]

Hi everyone,

I would think myself to be part of some noble cause, like the original EA Spouse trying to save her husband from a hellish work environment at EA. That had a happy ending, however, with tons of publicity and a total change of overtime wages and salaries and how they are handled within the company. I do not expect a happy ending, so I’ll be personal and selfish, and this is just for me.

So just call me EA Louse.

I found out recently that I will be dismissed from Bioware Mythic during the next round of layoffs EA coming this November. I’m sick of seeing EA outsource their art and find every excuse to get rid of us and still not achieve anything. Mythic is dying, and its not us who killed him but we’re taking the fall.

But if you want to know what really went down with Warhammer, I’ll tell you right now.

First, the project leaders did not know what they were doing. Jeff Hickman was the saddest excuse for a producer I’ve seen. All he did was drink the Koolaid and suck up to the right people. He was the perfect yes-man, and this reached down to almost all managers.

My boss who will not be named, again and again would tell us that Rob Denton, one of the original owners, said we should “do this” and “do that” and we would say “omg it makes NO sense, please explain A, B, and C to him. “And then he’d come back and tell us, after we thought he had gone to talk with him,” No, Rob wants in this way. Jeff agrees, this is what we’re going to do. Understood? ” They never actually talked back to Rob. We didn’t talk back to them.

Rob said jump, our leaders said, “How high?! And on who?”

So we shut up and did what we were told, by people too afraid to tackle real problems. It is a culture of fear, especially since Mark Jacobs was fired.

Oh, he left voluntarily you say? No, he was fired, and everything placed on his shoulders by those closest to him so they could divide his salary and annual bonus. I bet Rob is enjoying that sweet new Maserati he bought after leaving the knife in his partner of 15 years.

Want to know more? Keep reading. I can keep ranting.

Rob was never there during the development of Warhammer. We always joked about when his next weekly holiday was coming. (Answer? Next week!) Mark was not available, was way too head down trying to design his own contributions or whatever. Rob always handled things. We were told NOT to speak with Mark in person, never, or else we would be explaining to Rob.

The coup began long before Warhammer, and Jacobs did not even realize it.

And yet, this is common gossip in the company, and nobody in this industry seems to get it. So get it! Rob was responsible for the entire project, then blamed Mark when things went wrong.

Ah, but could not do it alone. No, he needed Jeff Hickman, promoted from customer service to produce the Warhammer project. Wait, let me let you have that sink in. The man running customer service, on the theory that the management of a large team of CSRs qualified him to run a game development project, was put in charge of a $50 million project with no previous experience.

And he needed Eugene Evans, the man who brought you the almost non-existent marketing campaign behind Warhammer. We could not even believe how bad they fucked up the marketing campaign. There was almost none. We slaved for years, and this is how we were rewarded for it by Eugene and the people of EA? Being told that Warhammer was not “worth” a lot of money spent on it? LOL. Now he’s in charge of Bioware Mythic.

Oh yeah, and he needed Paul Barnett. You know him as the crazy British dude that appears in random videos at EA to promote his latest bullshittery. We know him as the crazy British dude who we have no idea of how he still has a job. This man was supposed to be the savior of Warhammer’s vision and design. Now all he can do is promote his strange ideas about his little secret project web Ultima game that’s been almost universally criticized by all of us and focus groups. What’s that? You didn”t know Paul loves one of those old Ultima games sooooo much he’s making a literal copy of it for Facebook? Well, the cats outta the bag. Too bad it sucks ass.

So what do they all have in common? All of them failed, badly, in Warhammer, and each of them is in a position of authority in the new company, while the rest of us are facing pink slips. How do they sleep at night? They spin aruond, blame everything on Mark, divide his old salary between them, and never speak about it again. Oh, and they fuck us little guys as well.

Almost makes me congratulate them for having the balls, but after watching them work, it’s obvious they don’t have any. They’re cowards running scared trying to hide under the wing of Bioware, now that Rob has become a general manager of EA.

And Bioware? Don’t make me laugh. They’ve spent more money making the Old Republic than James Cameron spent on Avatar. Shit you not. More than $ 300 million! Can you believe that?

And you know what they’re most proud of? This is the kicker. They are most proud of the sound. No seriously. Something like a 20Gig installation, and most of it is voiceover work. That’s the best they have. The rest of the game is a joke. EA knows it and so does George Lucas,they’re panicking , and so most of Mythic has already been cannibalized to work in Austin on it because they can’t keep pushing back launch.

Old Republic will be one of the greatest failures in the history of MMOs from EA. Probably at the level of the Sims Online. We all know it too ……

Anyway, back to Warhammer. We shouldn’t have released when we did, everyone knows it. The game wasn’t done, but EA gave us a deadline and threatened the leaders of Mythic with pink slips. We slipped so many times, it had to go out.

We sold more than a million boxes, and only had 300k subs a month later. Going down every since. It’s “stable” now, but guess what? Even Dark Age and Ultima have more subs than we have. How great is that? Games almost a decade make more money than our biggest project.

So there it is. Rewarding the incompetent. Firing the competent.

I say it anonymously so I can keep my next few paychecks coming.

So I’m a louse. A big fat EA louse.

En gros, le gars dit que faire Warhammer était un bordel et que The Old Republic sera le plus gros "fail" des MMOs depuis The Sims Online.

[Clem68]

C'est pas vraiment du troll et je savais pas trop ou posté mais je me suis posé des questions en voyant ça :

Le test de SW pouvoir de la force 2 sur JV.COM.

On attendait cette suite avec une certaine fébrilité et LucasArts devait le savoir. Au final, on se trouve face à un jeu qui a perdu tout ce qui faisait son charme. Le scénario tient à peine debout, le système de combat est inexistant (pas de combos), la gestion des points de compétences est risible et la durée de vie n'excède pas 5 heures. Alors, on veut bien admettre que par moments, le fan appréciera d'incarner le personnage surpuissant de Starkiller, mais clairement pas en y investissant 70€. A 20, on commencera à envisager la question... si on est fan.

Alors pourquoi :

[dread]

A cause de la preview :

Avec ses combos ravageurs et ses multiples façons d’envisager les combats selon les améliorations de pouvoir que l’on fera à notre guise, Star Wars : Le pouvoir de la Force 2 s’annonce comme un titre phare de cette fin d’année. Comme d’habitude pour les jeux de cette licence, le scénario a été travaillé avec soin et les nombreuses cinématiques en feront un joyau incontournable pour tous les amateurs de l’univers de la Guerre des Étoiles.

[Clem68]

pfff vraiment du n'importe quoi...puiser une impression dans une preview

[D_Y]

C'est la magie du marketing. D'ailleurs ça m'a toujours fait marrer ces citations complètement sorties de leur contexte, même sur les jeux les plus moisis on voit "l'un des meilleurs jeu de l'année" ou "un chef d'oeuvre incoutournable"...

[yoann[007]]

"On est loin d'avoir affaire à un chef-d'oeuvre incontournable" -> "Un chef-d'oeuvre incontournable"

Fastoche !

[Halouc]

EA

[mheishiro]

C'est une vraie pub ça?
Bah les mecs ont tout compris! Gran Turismo, c'est 5 ans de développements, un contenu à ne pas savoir qu'en faire, une gestion des dégâts qui semblent juste catastrophique, une impression de vitesse à revoir et des retards en chaîne.
EA, c'est son Need for speed/ an, des jeux efficaces et des millions de ventes à chaque fois.

What else?

[Quizzman]

J'arrive pas à trouver la vidéo en question...

[Clem68]

Gran Turismo, c'est 5 ans de développements, un contenu à ne pas savoir qu'en faire, une gestion des dégâts qui semblent juste catastrophique, une impression de vitesse à revoir et des retards en chaîne.

+1

D'ailleurs :

http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2010/0004 ... r-noel.htm

Si c'est le cas...le jeu va encore se prendre des coups sur sa réputation...

[BY2K]

Gran Turismo, c'est 5 ans de développements, un contenu à ne pas savoir qu'en faire, une gestion des dégâts qui semblent juste catastrophique, une impression de vitesse à revoir et des retards en chaîne.

+1

D'ailleurs :

http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2010/0004 ... r-noel.htm

Si c'est le cas...le jeu va encore se prendre des coups sur sa réputation...

Il vient de passer gold, en fait, il devrait être la pour noël.

À moins que Sony découvre que les camions de livraisons ont été volés par des extra-terrestres.

Sinon, ben le Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, je l'attends moi. (La démo déchire.)

[Quizzman]

http://www.gamekult.com/tout/jeux/fiche ... oluce.html

Enorme. XD