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EA Sports' Peter Moore Comments by Ellie Gibson

21 August, 2008

The ex-Xbox boss on EA, E3 and Moore.

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HolyJebus
21/08/08 @ 13:27
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Were any of the questions actually answered?
jonsaan
21/08/08 @ 13:31
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It's funny. Of all the games that I thought would benefit from online all those years ago, sports was the one. You'd have one game and it would just get updated for new Teams etc.etc. Instead they are probably the total opposite of that. Yearly minor updates where very little changes bar the rosters and some new motion capture. Greedy licensing deals are probably to blame.
stampax
21/08/08 @ 13:41
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Good interview - although why does anyone hide behind the fact that EA will keep on releasing newer yearly updates of things like FIFA, etc - they are simply a license to print money. They'd be mad to stop doing them.
jonsaan
21/08/08 @ 13:44
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Yes but decent team and venue updates would also be a license to print money.
Xerx3s
21/08/08 @ 13:45
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"There are different consumers coming in who would love to be a part of the EA sports nation - but sometimes the games can be just a little difficult."

Fuck that. Games are not too hard, casual gamers are just too fucking lazy. You don't dumb down monopoly either just because people don't want to read the manual, do you?

The games YOU want are shit simply because you have dumbed them down so much that you would still win if you are sleeping.

/storms out of thread
/kicks casual bastards in the groins on the way out
jonsaan
21/08/08 @ 14:09
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Half the fun of playing games is feeling a game click after you stick with it and learn its ways. An instant game, such as guitar hero, fades very quickly for me. Something that makes you work to get it's ways (Disgaea 2 ) is far far more rewarding in the long run.
Xerx3s
21/08/08 @ 14:19
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GH's system is good - even though it's not my thing. It's easy to learn and hard to master but he is pushing for dumbing down games (it has been a goal for EA for ages now) and that's bad. It's not just EA though, everybody seems to be going for this. The extra money that is earned by selling to these lazy bastards and in the process completely diluting the quality.
davc4
21/08/08 @ 15:16
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with the making games easier bit is he tryig to launch FIFA to the US market.
nvm nice little interview with not really all that much said.
Krelle
21/08/08 @ 17:05
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@jonsaan:

"Half the fun of playing games is feeling a game click after you stick with it and learn its ways. An instant game, such as guitar hero, fades very quickly for me."

wut? how is GH instant? The (music)games doesnt really become interesting until you get to the top, or close to, difficulty.
Games lile GH,DDR,PopN etc gets better the better you become as a player.

Note, that I agree with you in general. GH just seems like a weird example.

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Tweakmonkey
21/08/08 @ 18:07
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Eurogamer: Why should people play FIFA instead of Pro Evo?

Peter Moore: ...our investment in licences... We've always taken great pride in the investments we make in football, to make sure the football videogame fan gets the most authentic and fully licenced experience.

Investment for the consumers benefit is it? More like monopolising the market so that competitors don't stand a chance.

bad09
21/08/08 @ 18:30
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Good read.

I'm on a EA revival with Mirrors Edge, Dead Space, LOTR: Conquest, Tiger, FIFA, Next Fight Night when it arrives.

"Eurogamer: Why should people play FIFA instead of Pro Evo? "

FIFA all they way baby! Pro is pure crap on presentation (and I hear gameplay these days from Pro fans...)

I nearly picked up a cheap 08 the other day (took a FIFA break for a couple of years) but held out to get 09 in a few months. Can't wait, get in!
jonsaan
22/08/08 @ 09:37
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@Krelle. Maybe it was a bad example. I found it instantly fun from the word go and incredibly easy (medium and most of hard). later difficulty levels just felt pedantic to be honest. Not fun. The actual game is as shallow as a puddle though.

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