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EA: Battlefront won't have single player because "people don't want it."

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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.”
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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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Pecrow said:
I have another example. Destiny!.

Its a Buy the game and if you want to keep playing keep buying DLCs, its like one is paying for a demo and has to keep paying for the full game. I hope companies start following the Witcher 3 format. Release a game and all DLCs are free.
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I don't think DLC should be necessarily free. But I do think that the price I'm paying should feel fair.
 
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RevPokemon said:
Yup retards like you are to dumb to notice that they aren't even going to put the money there and are just going to get the profits

I feel sorry for you if you honestly believe these companies saying they are using their time and money to make it better.
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Decided to reply to this since I have to wait for another ****ing virtual boat.

You're completely misguided if you think that deciding to create a singleplayer would save on any sort of money. They have a budget and most likely a time restraint for making the game.
Even if they decide to make a singleplayer, you're just further proving the point that they're just choking the multiplayer budget to do so.
Chances are quite high that they would never have spent MORE or taken LONGER to create a singleplayer portion, even if that WAS on the table. They simply would have cut back on the multiplayer development time and money. That's how AAA game development works.

So again you're still just crying that the company is managing its budget and time efficiently to deliver a better multiplayer experience. If you have no faith in the game anyway, i'm not sure why you would even want a singleplayer, since in your opinion it will be shit anyway. They probably could have admit to the budget rather than passing it off as "no one wants this" of course, but everyone knows EA's PR is complete and utter dogcrap.

The only one who isn't thinking here is you. You're just crying that you aren't getting what you want and that everyone is sheep for understanding how AAA development works.


Anywho my boat is here.
 
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Hells Malice said:
Decided to reply to this since I have to wait for another ****ing virtual boat.

You're completely misguided if you think that deciding to create a singleplayer would save on any sort of money. They have a budget and most likely a time restraint for making the game.
Even if they decide to make a singleplayer, you're just further proving the point that they're just choking the multiplayer budget to do so.
Chances are quite high that they would never have spent MORE or taken LONGER to create a singleplayer portion, even if that WAS on the table. They simply would have cut back on the multiplayer development time and money. That's how AAA game development works.

So again you're still just crying that the company is managing its budget and time efficiently to deliver a better multiplayer experience. If you have no faith in the game anyway, i'm not sure why you would even want a singleplayer, since in your opinion it will be shit anyway. They probably could have admit to the budget rather than passing it off as "no one wants this" of course, but everyone knows EA's PR is complete and utter dogcrap.

The only one who isn't thinking here is you. You're just crying that you aren't getting what you want and that everyone is sheep for understanding how AAA development works.


Anywho my boat is here.
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You are not thinking at all hells to understand that I am saying quite simply is they are not spending the money wisely but are just going to pocket it. If you really think they are putting the money where it counts then you are more fing stupid then I thought. They are not putting it to multiplayer and I doubt they really would treat the Mp any different regardless of sp.

I will say I'm glad you admitted ea (well KT least the PR branch) can be bs.

Anyway you idoit I have to say no I am not crying for what I want but I am simply expressing my opinion on thier descesion that they have made nothing more nothing less.

I do know how triple a dev goes and its all about the money which I have stated because that is all that companies like Nintendo ea and all them care about at the end of the day

Ultimately the only retard here is you for believing that crap and not accepting people can express thier opinion.
 
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coming a bit late in the debate but I'd like to point out that that we're talking about Dice here.

For those who don't know Dice they are responsible for the battlefield franchise, a franchise where most of the titles don't actually a SP campaign.
Even BF2 which was (and still is for many) considered a staple of the fps genre didn't have a SP campaign.

Dice started adding SP campaign in Bad Company, BC and BC2 campaign weren't particularly good but they had a spark, a little something. Unfortunately that spark died with BC line as BF3 and BF4 campaign were pure stinking shit and the mp part of the game suffered.

I have to say though that the excuses provided by EA are bullshit and the most probable reason is because they're trying to keep the scale of the projects within certain bound in hope that dice will finally be able to deliver a quality product which will also contain the EA checklist of shitty thing a modern MP game must have
 
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RevPokemon said:
No tom, fanboys who defend bs moves like a few of you have are creating a model where companies like Nintendo and Activision can and will do whatever the fuck they want because they have retards like the Nintendo fanboys who will buy a game that is shit if it has Mario on it and that's what is wrong.
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Or maybe people just have different opinions and tastes to your own and buy products that they enjoy and then have to put up with people like you who ridicule them for that.

If you don't like what Activision or Nintendo put out, don't buy their products. If other do like what they put out, then good for them; they've found some happiness in the world. No need for you to shit on someone else's happiness.
 
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SickPuppy said:
I think this debate should be about why isn't there a wii u version of the game instead of worrying about a campaign. I won't be getting it either.
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Well, like they care about the WiiU lol
 
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EA knew the singleplayer experience is mandatory for this generation. EA uses the typical "bestfriend that stabs you in the back" method which is legendary in the game industry. The first method is release 7 to 8 map packs and release the other 10 for DLC. Now As much when I played Battlefront 2 on PSP and PS2 all there was at the time were bots so this is kinda disrespectful in today age and it's equivalent to when Phil Spencer congratulated Shuhei Yoshida on The Last Guardian knowing it was in development hell for the longest of time (Well that's how I looked at it and took it).
 
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Logan97 said:
EA knew the singleplayer experience is mandatory for this generation.
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Saying I am optimistic would be stretching the limits of the "and they say I am ???" format but I will try if it means single play is back as the driving force. The only thing I would want more is local co-op.
 
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FAST6191 said:
Saying I am optimistic would be stretching the limits of the "and they say I am ???" format but I will try if it means single play is back as the driving force. The only thing I would want more is local co-op.
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Yeah local co-op would be great, so many piece's are missing :wtf:. Now as I'm still thinking is it ok for shooting genre to replace the term "Singleplayer" with only "Multiplayer" now? I'll say it's mandatory for this new generation and older titles that's so far into multiplayer (milking aspect though), also there hasn't been a battlefront game in 10 years and this is potentially hurtful for a title that didn't even have growth as it's backbone...
 
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They know their userbase if you don't like it don't buy it. Most importantly you need to find forums to complain about it on, hopefully not just this one because someone somewhere could be disagreeing with you.
 

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