EA seems to give deadlines that are near impossible to meet, and cause the games to be rushed. At least, that’s how it seems to me.

They also shouldn’t charge for the tomato you didn’t originally get when you ordered you salad because they rushed it. If they decide to add extra parts to the game they were forced to cut because of a deadline, they should give it as free content and not paid DLC. Never understood why companies like EA will release a game for $60 then make you pay for small extra content.

But I don’t want my salad now! Someone else decided for me that I should get my salad now. Left up to me, I’d happily wait for them to make my salad right, pay a fair price for my salad, and then eat my salad. Instead the manager of the salad place is standing over their shoulder and demanding that they make the salad inside of 30 seconds, so that they can time the salad being done with the release of their new salad dressing. And this metaphor is getting away from me.

The point is, it’s not unreasonable to complain about a lack of content. It may not be the dev’s fault, because they have to make a certain release date. But “It’s not my fault!” does not make the game better (or make the hyperdrive work). LIke, I don’t blame Obsedian for having a terrible ending to Knights of the Old Republic 2, because the game was rushed to release before it was done. That’s not their fault, but it doesn’t mean the ending isn’t an unfinished mess.

To go back to the metaphor, this is also like getting two perfectly good salads, then coming back to get tomato slice because the salad people rushed. It’s not unreasonable to expect a salad to live up to the standards of the two salads that came before it.

So you’d take the salad even if they haven’t taken the time to wash off the pesticides because you want your salad and you want it now? Or before they cut all of the wilted parts of the vegetables off? This sense of enitlement, along with terrible development ethics to your defense, is whats wrong with the gaming industry. Its not just them, its us as well.

what it already offers? 😛 no space battles, no clone wars. It’s already 1/4 of the previous games. No offence but if i order a salad i want to be given a salad not a slice of tomato no matter if it is the most expensive slice of tomato in the world

Hardline is a great game. WAY better than BF4 is. Gosh, BF4 just isn’t fun at all….every time I try to play it its just obnoxious. Doesn’t help that they destroyed the Rush gametype.

Because a large part of the game is supposed to serve as a prologue to Episode 7. Because of this, episodes 1-3 are too far from the target of the project. It’s supposed to serve as a new entry in the battlefront series AND lead up to the unprecedented release of the new trilogy.

They have a huge deadline, and rather than rush it and stretch out the project, and possibly risk missing release date, they cut the game down and polish everything they CAN make.

Does this suck for content? yes. Is this disappointing for players? yes. This is just how contracts work though, especially working with a huge franchise like this. If they were an indie developer or making their own property, they could delay delay delay. With this game, they don’t have that freedom.