Its time, no more hiding

[nova91]

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What I find annoying is, they have cut off almost all interaction with the community, not even stopping by to say "Hi" or anything on OS or the EA Live forum. I get that there may be an NDA or whatever but that doesn't mean you have to completely stop communicating with fans. When footage is released, you can say "leaked" all day long, the way it was released doesn't matter, it was released, you say it's "pre-alpha" and then leave with nothing else said, I tend to lean toward it pretty much being your finished product and you didn't like the reception it got.

[wheelman990]

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I've seen videos with the WIP and read the not final build statements from EA this entire generation. Yet when the game releases it always looks just like the video showed it.

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Re: Its time, no more hiding

What I find annoying is, they have cut off almost all interaction with the community, not even stopping by to say "Hi" or anything on OS or the EA Live forum. I get that there may be an NDA or whatever but that doesn't mean you have to completely stop communicating with fans. When footage is released, you can say "leaked" all day long, the way it was released doesn't matter, it was released, you say it's "pre-alpha" and then leave with nothing else said, I tend to lean toward it pretty much being your finished product and you didn't like the reception it got.

As I said... no other game company has ever done this and gotten by with it

Im sticking to my point though... IF its a pre alpha, show it to us right now since you have a later version now.

I dont want a lie or a PR statement, what is really going on?

No company has a great product and hides it... even Sony showed us NBA 09 with no shame and they didnt even like it, so whats up with the tail tucking?

[PurePlayinSerb]

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I see there are no marketing professionals in the house.

1. If the competition is ahead of you, your marketing should be dedicated to two weeks before release.

2. If you feel your product is inferior, lacks depth etc.. your strategy should be dedicated to two weeks before release so you build hype fast enough to hook the core audience.

basically swindle the sheeple into buying a inferior product, aka rip people off

[btrapp]

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You are not lying. They have been in bad shape ever since this gen started in my opinion so their best bet is to wait, see the technological advancements these next-gen consoles provide and start rebuilding the franchise then, if they can.

Technology isn't their problem now, and it never was. EA's problem is that they don't see Live as valuable enough of a franchise to sink the proper resources into to make it a great game. It's as simple as that.

[chandlerbang]

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Technology isn't their problem now, and it never was. EA's problem is that they don't see Live as valuable enough of a franchise to sink the proper resources into to make it a great game. It's as simple as that.

thats because they cant buy out the exclusive rights and get rid of competition. THANK GOD the nba didnt buy into that BS exclusive contract EA was trying to establish. I hope the NFL changes its ways then its Bye bye EA sports

[Thunder Storm]

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thats because they cant buy out the exclusive rights and get rid of competition. THANK GOD the nba didnt buy into that BS exclusive contract EA was trying to establish. I hope the NFL changes its ways then its Bye bye EA sports

Man ... the hype surrounding NFK 2K14 would be crazy. EA has done nothing with the license except fool naive fans year after year.

EA has actually prevented us from witnessing next gen football.

[mrclutch]

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I would guess EA is "hiding" while they put some mad rush on to do something to make the game at least a little better than the vid we saw. I mean if they have a big enough team of a lot of top talent they could maybe make it playable enough to be a download or something. Trying to keep hope alive as i would love to see a great EA hoops game.

If they had something they were confident to show you would have to think they would have by now. As it's been said this isn't a marketing thread so I wont go there. BUT they would be at least be taking advantage of all of the "free" internet buzz games can get these days if they had anything to show.

It's looking bad guys.

[ForeverVersatile]

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It's Time?? It's been a long time!!

[22cedric]

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EA Sports should announce something after Madden NFL 13 drops that would be a good opportunity for them.

[RayRay34]

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EA Sports should announce something after Madden NFL 13 drops that would be a good opportunity for them.

I honestly think they have had plenty of good opportunities. Anytime 2k put something out EA should have matched it! But I guess at this point in time anything is better than nothing.

[fluent2332]

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So because EA hasn't started the heavy portion of their marketing campaign yet, that means they are hiding? Well, I guess technically you are right in a way. They are hiding information from us at this point, because they haven't started the heavy marketing yet, lol. I'm sure whenever they start releasing info for the game we will have plenty of it to go around. Just be patient.

[rangerrick012]

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So because EA hasn't started the heavy portion of their marketing campaign yet, that means they are hiding? Well, I guess technically you are right in a way. They are hiding information from us at this point, because they haven't started the heavy marketing yet, lol. I'm sure whenever they start releasing info for the game we will have plenty of it to go around. Just be patient.

Are you kidding me? The game's supposed to come out in October. It's almost September now. A little over a month from release and all we have is a few screenshots - no info on gameplay, features, modes, nothing from devs. And you want to say this is part of the marketing plan?

In what world would devs intentionally sit on their hands when their closest competition is putting out info left and right? This 'EA is doing this on purpose' nonsense has gotta stop. Please. There's something fishy going on, and EA's silence is speaking volumes at this point.

[fluent2332]

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Are you kidding me? The game's supposed to come out in October. It's almost September now. A little over a month from release and all we have is a few screenshots - no info on gameplay, features, modes, nothing from devs. And you want to say this is part of the marketing plan?

In what world would devs intentionally sit on their hands when their closest competition is putting out info left and right? This 'EA is doing this on purpose' nonsense has gotta stop. Please. There's something fishy going on, and EA's silence is speaking volumes at this point.

Well that's your opinion. We'll see what happens. No one can predict the future, I don't care what "signs" you think you are seeing. This could be all part of their strategy for all we know. They could be purposely waiting until the last minute to wow everybody. I'm not worried. Patience.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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This could be all part of their strategy for all we know.They could be purposely waiting until the last minute to wow everybody.

Man the Internet is always full of people trying to be 'that guy'.

If the game was as good as you think it is, why in the world would they need to wait til the last minute to "wow everybody"? This ain't exactly Rockstar and GTA we're talking about where they can easily wait til the last minute because they'll do numbers regardless, lol.

Matter of fact, since when are they in a position to "wait til the last minute" to show folks anything? Last I heard, the last Basketball game they put out was crap(well except to you and maybe 2 other people)and when you put out crap games, you don't really get the same benefit of the doubt that other companies get when they put out games that aren't crap.