Avi Lewis, head of the Canadian NDP party, has expressed support for employees laid off by EA last week, and spoke out about the perils of private equity.
Can’t copyright gameplay mechanics, and the plot is basically “get a team of misfits together to battle an incoming evil”, ie. it’s Seven Samurai IN SPAAAAACE. Plus, one of the big criticisms that I saw about ME:A is that it’s lazy; it’s the same old aliens as we’ve seen before even though that makes no sense in a new galaxy, and the plot is just trotting out some weary old tropes. Very risk averse, very insipid.
So yeah:
could spend millions getting the IP off of the shitty owners, to make a very safe and boring addition of the ME games
make a completely new game with similar mechanics, but take some risks with the story. A fun game with a stupid plot is still fun; a fun game with a great story is exceptional. So why not roll the dice? You can get the staff easily enough to form a new company.
Stormgate was broken from the reviews I saw. It simply wasn’t working well. It also didn’t really add something new to the StarCraft concept. If it for example had a survival mode where you fought together with other players to kill waves of another race, or allowed mods and had some prebuilt ones like a tower defense mod, or a MOBA mod, well… that would be interesting!
And it has to work on Linux. We’re in the process of ditching Winblows. Click that damn toggle and make it work on Linux.
Why buy it back? Support them to create a new company. Don’t reward the shitty company owners by giving them millions after they fired everybody.
Intellectual Property.
Can’t copyright gameplay mechanics, and the plot is basically “get a team of misfits together to battle an incoming evil”, ie. it’s Seven Samurai IN SPAAAAACE. Plus, one of the big criticisms that I saw about ME:A is that it’s lazy; it’s the same old aliens as we’ve seen before even though that makes no sense in a new galaxy, and the plot is just trotting out some weary old tropes. Very risk averse, very insipid.
So yeah:
could spend millions getting the IP off of the shitty owners, to make a very safe and boring addition of the ME games
make a completely new game with similar mechanics, but take some risks with the story. A fun game with a stupid plot is still fun; a fun game with a great story is exceptional. So why not roll the dice? You can get the staff easily enough to form a new company.
In the end you’re buying an existing fanbase with the IP.
Otherwise you get a Frost Giant scenario with “Stormgate”.
Stormgate was broken from the reviews I saw. It simply wasn’t working well. It also didn’t really add something new to the StarCraft concept. If it for example had a survival mode where you fought together with other players to kill waves of another race, or allowed mods and had some prebuilt ones like a tower defense mod, or a MOBA mod, well… that would be interesting!
And it has to work on Linux. We’re in the process of ditching Winblows. Click that damn toggle and make it work on Linux.
True, it had other issues too, but a lack of traction was a big one.
I just replayed ME2 and this really hits home.
The ME setting is cool but has some elements I’ve outgrown, like sexy blue space vixens (both Asari and EDI)
Here’s to hoping they get the band back together and write some new material.
Well i haven’t. Sexy blue space vixens 4 lyfe!