Some people seem to think that the reason why there has been no Live/Elite games the past few years is solely due to the competition customers that go and exagerate the game flaws ... that might be partially right, even if so, they are part of the market they are trying to shoot for ... yet mostly, if not solely, the failure to deliver those games it was due to EA own actions.
This whole prerendered video stuff we get, what we dont get is how do they choose to present it if it would be showcasing most of our visual complaints, complaints that have been fervently expressed over and over through the past few years.
Lets detail some of them:
- EA decided to showcase Live along some of their other brands, which were either more prepared for this occasion or at least better rendered, therefor deminishing Lives outlook.
- EA went with preserving its last gen player models (stick like), when most consumers didnt want them to.
- EA kept its current gen lightning over player skins (plastic like look), when most consumers didnt want them to.
- EA chose to stick with some of the players stance (defensive hunchback lookalike stance), when most consumers didnt want them to.
- EA decided to praise an engine that it didnt showed up at all with Live rendered video.
As you can see, it is not gameplay some of us are judging, but the presented video ... purely based of what was shown and going of past experience with the brand other cancelled tittles, there are some implications that one can educately inffer (such as they possibly also ignoring gameplay complaints) after seeing such questionable direction.
EA, once again, keeps taking bad decissions, keeps showing exactly the opposite of what people is looking to see ... even if the game is an early build, more so if the game is the opposite of what was presented on the video, you dont "show of" all the bad things that custumers have been criticizing since, ever.
I personaly liked the arena ambience and the players facial animations (not the players faces) but I will tell you this tho, given the recurrent miss timed showings, missguided directions and general repetition of mistakes, EA is solely raising to absurd levels its game expectations and moreso, hindering its costumers tolerance all while not been able to release a game for the past few years.
Here is to hope for a worthy showing at E3, then again, at this point, I am merely being either naive or taking my videogame bball fanatism over my rationalism. EA has yet to show that we were taken (even slightly) in account.
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