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In a recent interview with Peter Moore, COO of EA, Moore was asked about the controversy of yearly released sports titles, as well as some information about Star Wars Battlefront's lack of a single player campaign.

Peter Moore acknowledged that sports games have come under fire for being pushed out every year with menial updates, but he also thinks that in the future there may be a place for a yearly update, but for the time being “there is still a thirst for a great, brand-new boxed game.” Looks like we’ll be forking out for a new game every year for the foreseeable future, then…
Star Wars Battlefront was also on the table during the chat. When asked why the game won’t ship with a full-on single-player experience, Peter Moore stated that “very few people actually play the single-player on these kinds of games” going on with “that’s what the data points to.”

How do you feel about this line of thinking? Are games that seem to have a primary emphasis on multiplayer content, somehow excluded from the need for a single player campaign? Especially when it comes to narrative content such as the Star Wars universe.

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[CathyRina]

Are they retarded? SP in swbf2 was gracefully executed. We need Space, SP, and Galactic Conquests in this game full stop.

The're are none of the things you mentioned in the game. Alpha testers leaked the list of features and none of them were on the list.

 

[I_AM_L_FORCE]

What the actual fuck.

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Anyone got spare vials of cianide?

 

[CathyRina]

Ikr. this game is targeted at battlefield fans because targeting it at actual battlefront fans would be ridiculous in EA's eyes.

 

[RevPokemon]

Ikr. this game is targeted at battlefield fans because targeting it at actual battlefront fans would be ridiculous in EA's eyes.

Yeah you are so right. Might as well add battlefield costumes instead of those ugly star wars ones

 

[grossaffe]

What do you call the Wii U? That was a several million dollar risk. Splatoon in itself was a risk, it was a shooter that was completely different from pretty much every other shooter.

Nintendo isn't doing what everyone else is doing. WHY WON'T THEY TAKE RISKS?

 

[FAST6191]

It seems people are somewhat upset. Normally I would play devil's advocate regardless of my actual opinions, however here I actually can see some logic in it. What about if you view it the other way -- I am sure we have all seen games that had weak multiplayer modes added because that was the thing to do, and if the time and effort was instead spent on single player then something great could have happened. If the game is primarily a multiplayer one then...

All this said star wars + online shooting... if they somehow managed to work a football simulation into that it would probably be my anti game.

On achievement thing for people doing the single player. Nice to see stats and reasoned argument, however I have to wonder here if it was played as a key component/selling point or just as some kind of time killer.

 

[I_AM_L_FORCE]

I used to play galactic conquest with my brother when I was about 3-6, it saddens me to think that something as simple as that will not be included. I'm afraid to say if they don't buck up their ideas I will not buy this fake game.

 

[CathyRina]

well to be frank they only got 4 Planets (12 maps) so the mode would suck anyway. 5 Planets if we count the EP7 DLC.
But that just shows where Dice is putting their focus towards. Quick cash in on the EP7 hype.

 

[I_AM_L_FORCE]

I guess they would need at least 8 planets.

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Either way I'm not buying Ea Wars: Cashfront

 

[Blaze163]

Why do I get the feeling that whatever survey they're basing this choice on was run by this guy?

Spoiler

 

[RevPokemon]

Why do I get the feeling that whatever survey they're basing this choice on was run by this guy?

Spoiler

Because ea hates us

 

[CathyRina]

Why do I get the feeling that whatever survey they're basing this choice on was run by this guy?

Spoiler

I doubt it even was based on a survey. I participate in EA's surveys multiple times and I don't recall them ever asking if Singleplayer is important to me.

 

[RevPokemon]

I doubt it even was based on a survey. I participate in EA's surveys multiple times and I don't recall them ever asking if Singleplayer is important to me.

Its a survey that does not exist they just said it to cover thier ass

 

[Blaze163]

I doubt it even was based on a survey. I participate in EA's surveys multiple times and I don't recall them ever asking if Singleplayer is important to me.

Yeah, I can speak categorically for myself and pretty much everyone I know that we were never asked about this. We would have told EA to go jam a cactus up themselves. Still, as the internet and modern technology continues to grow and feedback becomes even more powerful in the entertainment industry, I'm sure one day even companies like EA will learn that they have to ASK what we want, not try to TELL US what we want. They clearly don't have a clue what we want and yet they see fit to jam their ill-informed opinions down our throats. Give it time. Once this fad of the Doritos and Mountain Dew 'Bro' gamer wears off, things should improve. It's always the same. Look at the motion control fad. It was fine for a while, the novelty wore off, the companies were left with the hardcore gamers they pissed off by going so casual friendly, and now we get a better balance.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Perfect, I'd rather have no singleplayer than a shitty tacked on singleplayer any day.

 

[CathyRina]

Perfect, I'd rather have no singleplayer than a shitty tacked on singleplayer any day.

if you don't like it just ignore it. Deleting something isn't fixing anything if anything it hurts those who actually wanted a SP even if its shit.

 

[RevPokemon]

if you don't like it just ignore it. Deleting something isn't fixing anything.

Perfect, I'd rather have no singleplayer than a shitty tacked on singleplayer any day.

Why not just let then add single player and make it good?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

if you don't like it just ignore it. Deleting something isn't fixing anything.

Why would you want a piece of shit, when you can...not have a piece of shit? I'd rather a developer put all of their effort into what they want to make, not shit out something because a couple hundred people on a forum like to bitch about shit. If you want to play a soggy sack of shit developers don't care about, good for you, but I don't. If they went and just shoehorned a shitty singleplayer in, you'd all just bitch and moan about that.

 

[RevPokemon]

Why would you want a piece of shit, when you can...not have a piece of shit? I'd rather a developer put all of their effort into what they want to make, not shit out something because a couple hundred people on a forum like to bitch about shit. If you want to play a soggy sack of shit developers don't care about, good for you, but I don't. If they went and just shoehorned a shitty singleplayer in, you'd all just bitch and moan about that.

Because they aren't putting their time in multiplayer game

 

[FAST6191]

On the survey business they probably did not need to conduct a pointless survey when they ask people things but instead just looked up the numbers for the relevant games -- metrics is a way of life for a lot of these companies.

if you don't like it just ignore it. Deleting something isn't fixing anything if anything it hurts those who actually wanted a SP even if its shit.

It will still cost for that single player though. A couple of hundred grand putting such things together vs spending that on multiplayer refinement would be a discussion worth having.