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TiberianFiend

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20462

can anyone confirm this?
its worrying,i've also got acounts of ea not making C&C:3 kanes wrath;
just overviewing the creation of it.

http://commandandconquerjunkie.com/tag/zero-hour
http://www.breakawaygames.com/entertainment/feature/

they all have very good arguments as well.
"Kane’s Wrath 3+ month lack-of-patch"

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Beowulf · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject:

EA axing Tiberium is old news.

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Sir Modsalot · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject:

Why post here about that? Do it at EA's boards where they can confirm it for you.

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject:

If they die it's fine by me, it shows that economic darwinism doesn't favour the large.

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TiberianFiend · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject:

wow no need to be agressive Laughing

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its a huge dissapointment but tbh not totaly
unexpected,plus i don't track Ea's every move so this kinda new to most people,to answer sirmodsalot this is only information i gained from a site
which may not have accurate source,and to ask directly on a forum that
is related directly to the company(with a possiblility of be a completely wrong) is a possible put down for many people.

Anyway not to be mean but Ea didn't direct C&C better than if it was just still westwood,after all some of the story lines are pretty in depth through-out C&C Tiberian Sun and Red alert 2,where as currently C&C:3 shows little or non intrest in what made tiberium what it was or whatever happened to most mutant life,cyborgs lost their ability to heal in tiberium and everything went down hill from Kaneswrath.
srry about that #Tongue

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Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

Lt A1br3cht wrote:

If they die it's fine by me, it shows that economic darwinism doesn't favour the large.

Economic darwinism (or economic evolution) doesn't favor the stupid. Which EA is.

Beowulf · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:23 am Post subject:

Not true. EA, while big and gargantuan, is an indisputably diabolical marketing machine. They know how to make money so that doesn't make them stupid, just not gamer friendly.

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Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

Hence, stupid. If they can't make friends with their customers (gamers), I question their intelligence as an institution.

Beowulf · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:04 am Post subject:

Yet people still make thousands upon thousands of purchases. Simply working against your opinion does not make them stupid.

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Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

Explain why their stock has been decreasing for over a year now. And unlike other studios they have had to lay off people.

The US economy is not so bad the gaming industry will fail. It's just EA being stupid in running a business.

Spore was proven less than it should have been, in part due to the very stupid business decision for SecuROM. Same thing happened with Mass Effect and the same WILL happen for Red Alert 3. All from one stupid decision.

Lt Albrecht · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject:

SecuROM is a stupid decision, just like in the 70's when GM kept churning out big (but cool) cars instead of building smaller, more fuel efficient ones. Now GM only holds a small corner of the car market opposed to the semi-monopoly the ford-GM-Chrysler trio used to hold.

Lesson, change when you see it coming, not when you have to catch up.

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Clazzy · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject:

SomeGuy[YR:SF] wrote:

Explain why their stock has been decreasing for over a year now. And unlike other studios they have had to lay off people.

Actually, I just looked and most companies (apart from Activision) have had dropping shares over the past two years:
http://finance.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ:ERTS
http://finance.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ:TTWO
http://finance.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ:ATVI
http://finance.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ:THQI

The EA drops seem mostly connected to the Take-Two merger, or lack of.

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

phew, the greatest disaster that never was. ea + take 2 = grand theft st00pid Rolling Eyes

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Ixonoclast · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject:

If this shit on PC continues, I'm buying a Wii and go have Wii-parties with cocktails and tapas and hot girls.

DoMiNaNt_HuNtEr · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:01 am Post subject:

Nice.

I'm gettin one soon.

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Daz · Energy Commando **Joined**: 26 Apr 2003

Meh, project cancellations happen all the time. Generally smaller companies, but still.

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Orac · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject:

EA has a point though, Tiberium would simply have faded into the legions of FPS games, they would have needed something exceptional to start an FPS franchise around it. If the game wasn't better than the rest of the market then EA has no reason to continue it - it wouldn't have made them the money they want.