DA2 takes a dip off the third week.

[Volourn]

Are you claiming that every DA series fan is a ME series fan? Perhaps it's a way to basically start the amrketing for ME3 to get those who wrote the ME series off to try out ME2, possibly like it, then they buy ME1 and wait for ME3.

Game over, game fuckin' over.

 

[Jaesun]

r00fles! a 2 second glance at the user-base on the forums showing what games they have registered is really hard! FFS!

 

[Volourn]

Avoiding the question. You are a Codexer.

 

[Mangoose]

Are you claiming that every DA series fan is a ME series fan? Perhaps it's a way to basically start the amrketing for ME3 to get those who wrote the ME series off to try out ME2, possibly like it, then they buy ME1 and wait for ME3.

Game over, game fuckin' over.

Shouldn't they offer ME1 for free instead?

 

[Volourn]

ME1 is a 4 year old game. It's dead. Tiome to move on. They're trying to get ME3 sales.

 

[serch]

Haha EA-Spain is awesome: We've reached 1 million copies sold, quite faster than with DAO, that's why we offer you ME2 for free if you buy this turd. How much evident can your marketing lies be. Sales must be declining at an impressing pace

 

[Volourn]

DA and ME series had special deals when first released. Your point?

 

[serch]

Not like this one. They also have mailed me with the offer, which is a first for me. The 'we reach 1 million copies sold faster than DAO' and extra marketing effort post release is pretty telling, don't you thing Volourn-cake? Don't you think something is happening with the sales?

 

[Volourn]

Yeah, they sold more than a million copies in less than 2 weeks and the game is selling fast than DA1. That's what is happening.

P.S. They mail plenty of offers to those who sign up for that service including a multittyude of them for DA1, and other games. This isn't new for BIO at all.

 

[serch]

I don't know Volounr, yes they sold a lot the first two weeks, brand recognition and all, but I think is pretty obvious that in the third week the sales have taken a steep dive.

kisses

 

[Esquilax]

I don't know Volounr, yes they sold a lot the first two weeks, brand recognition and all, but I think is pretty obvious that in the third week the sales have taken a steep dive.

kisses

Sort of reminds of how these shitty movies with a ton of money and hype behind them completely tank in sales after the first week, or even opening weekend after everybody realizes how shitty they are.

 

[Kaanyrvhok]

Lol Aplha males (wherever you live) play Crpgs? Where i live they are handsome/muscular drive flashy cars have tons of dosh and all the women wanna fuck them: where the fuck do you live? Santas workshop?

I live in Seattle. The alpha males got to jail so the new alpha male is a metrosexual programmer with a large enough pay check to buy hookers so they can practice their puss eating skills and yes they play CRPGs.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

buy hookers so they can practice their puss eating skills

 

[Stalin]

I live in Seattle. The alpha males got to jail so the new alpha male is a metrosexual programmer with a large enough pay check to buy hookers so they can practice their puss eating skills and yes they play CRPGs.

WTF was that even in Engrish?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

buy hookers so they can practice their puss eating skills

 

[Captain Shrek]

DOHOHO!

Now they are giving Cerberus network card free with this shit!



That's like 15 dolla more!

 

[Volourn]

Damn, companies are weaklings. This is ebcause of the crybabies yestrerday whining thatb they'd have to pay for Cerberus. I would have told them to stop being selfish little pricks and shut the fuck and enjoy your free game.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Damn, companies are weaklings. This is ebcause of the crybabies yestrerday whining thatb they'd have to pay for Cerberus. I would have told them to stop being selfish little pricks and shut the fuck and enjoy your free game.

Quoted for its inherent epicness.

 

[Alex]

A friend once told me that, from EA's point of view, buying a well known company and ruining its IPs is actually lucrative. As they see it, consumers don't think about designers (except in rare instance, such as Sid Meier or Will Wright) or gameplay. Instead, they think about brand names and intellectual properties. Having the x-com brand is much more important, at least for big companies like EA, than having a good turn based combat.

So, if they drive a company's name into the ground and ruin the brand name of its titles, it is ok, because it is still better than having to compete with that company. Even if the important employees are fired and then reform into another company, they still will lack access to their original brands (company name and game names), which companies like EA see as crucial. Their objective is to leave popular brands out of the hands of small studios.

 

[Captain Shrek]

A friend once told me that, from EA's point of view, buying a well known company and ruining its IPs is actually lucrative. As they see it, consumers don't think about designers (except in rare instance, such as Sid Meier or Will Wright) or gameplay. Instead, they think about brand names and intellectual properties. Having the x-com brand is much more important, at least for big companies like EA, than having a good turn based combat.

So, if they drive a company's name into the ground and ruin the brand name of its titles, it is ok, because it is still better than having to compete with that company. Even if the important employees are fired and then reform into another company, they still will lack access to their original brands (company name and game names), which companies like EA see as crucial. Their objective is to leave popular brands out of the hands of small studios.

If this be true (I can't decide yet, I will have to ask my father who is a Professor in a university and HoD for the MBA dept) then the times are darker than we think.

 

[DragoFireheart]

A friend once told me that, from EA's point of view, buying a well known company and ruining its IPs is actually lucrative. As they see it, consumers don't think about designers (except in rare instance, such as Sid Meier or Will Wright) or gameplay. Instead, they think about brand names and intellectual properties. Having the x-com brand is much more important, at least for big companies like EA, than having a good turn based combat.

So, if they drive a company's name into the ground and ruin the brand name of its titles, it is ok, because it is still better than having to compete with that company. Even if the important employees are fired and then reform into another company, they still will lack access to their original brands (company name and game names), which companies like EA see as crucial. Their objective is to leave popular brands out of the hands of small studios.

Wouldn't this eventually destroy EAs reputation?

 

[Captain Shrek]

A friend once told me that, from EA's point of view, buying a well known company and ruining its IPs is actually lucrative. As they see it, consumers don't think about designers (except in rare instance, such as Sid Meier or Will Wright) or gameplay. Instead, they think about brand names and intellectual properties. Having the x-com brand is much more important, at least for big companies like EA, than having a good turn based combat.

So, if they drive a company's name into the ground and ruin the brand name of its titles, it is ok, because it is still better than having to compete with that company. Even if the important employees are fired and then reform into another company, they still will lack access to their original brands (company name and game names), which companies like EA see as crucial. Their objective is to leave popular brands out of the hands of small studios.

Wouldn't this eventually destroy EAs reputation?

Only if this fact is publicized well.

You may not know this, but a VERY valid strategy in big corporations is to not to care about criminal behavior that nobody will notice. Business is mostly about short term profit. There is a huge economic theory about it.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Only if this fact is publicized well.

- Such secrets will never stay secret for long. Even if said company gets away with some things it's only a matter of time before said secret becomes public. The issue at hand is not if but when, all the while said company is causing damage to the industry.

You may not know this, but a VERY valid strategy in big corporations is to not to care about criminal behavior that nobody will notice. Business is mostly about short term profit. There is a huge economic theory about it.

- What theory is that?

 

[Captain Shrek]

Only if this fact is publicized well.

- Such secrets will never stay secret for long. Even if said company gets away with some things it's only a matter of time before said secret becomes public. The issue at hand is not if but when, all the while said company is causing damage to the industry.

That is not how it works.

You may not know this, but a VERY valid strategy in big corporations is to not to care about criminal behavior that nobody will notice. Business is mostly about short term profit. There is a huge economic theory about it.

- What theory is that?

i don;t know the name exactly. But it is related to devaluation of money/resource. Investment LOOSE value overtime due to several economic and commercial factors like business-cycles and inflation. I am hardly an expert though. I just know the basic facts from books I read. You would be better off talking to people who know better than me. Not that I am afraid that I am wrong, I am not educated in the right field to explain it sufficiently well.

 

[SCO]

They'll just change name.

See Blackwater/Xe, Infogrames/atari, millions of pyramid schemes etc.

 

[Kaanyrvhok]

A friend once told me that, from EA's point of view, buying a well known company and ruining its IPs is actually lucrative. As they see it, consumers don't think about designers (except in rare instance, such as Sid Meier or Will Wright) or gameplay. Instead, they think about brand names and intellectual properties. Having the x-com brand is much more important, at least for big companies like EA, than having a good turn based combat.

So, if they drive a company's name into the ground and ruin the brand name of its titles, it is ok, because it is still better than having to compete with that company. Even if the important employees are fired and then reform into another company, they still will lack access to their original brands (company name and game names), which companies like EA see as crucial. Their objective is to leave popular brands out of the hands of small studios.

Its true that one of the biggest reasons people choke away opportunity is that they think too much.