EA as a brand has been tarnished

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EA as a brand has been tarnished

About time someone told them. Poor QA, bad ports, buggy launches, and overall decrease in the game quality/content, constant milking of franchises with mediocre content is going to bring down EA. Here's hoping that Crysis, Army of Two and some other new ips will restore EA to it's former glory.

"Poor reviews and quality are beginning to tarnish the EA brand," Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson told investors in a note distributed this morning. "According to our ongoing survey of GameRankings.com aggregated review data, Electronic Arts' overall game quality continues to fall."

"Reviews of all of EA's annualized titles, its primary source of profit, have declined over the past two years," Wilson noted. "Although market share has not declined dramatically to date, in years such as 2007, which promises to have tremendous competition, it seems likely if quality does not improve. EA's aggregate review has also declined significantly in the past two years."

Wilson listed 20 of EA's recent annualized franchises, with averaged GameRankings scores by year across all platforms. For more direct comparisons, he also included scores for just the PlayStation 2 versions of the games. In nearly every case, the most recent version of an EA game scored lower than the version released in 2004. The company's NHL franchise maintained its 75.1 percent average across all platforms, while its MVP Baseball franchise notched up its multiplatform average from 86.3 percent to 86.7 percent.
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Analyst: EA brand tarnished - Xbox 360 News at GameSpot
 
2K games is punching EA sports in the gut. Overall EA still has plenty other genres, it should expand further.

EA sports has been ruling the sports genre for a long time, weak competition sometimes does that to you.
 
I really wanted EA to release a Need For Speed : Bikes edition

Where one could mod the Busas , R1s , CBR's

All custom NOS kits , fairings , vinyls etc.........

Hope EA listens to me and some day comes out with NFS Bikes EDt.

Never have see any game that wud provide customizing bikes like we

customize cars in nfs carbon or most wanted or the since the underground

series
 
They're using that for backup I guess .. Cause it's sure to do well ... So they'll bring it out only when they absolutely need to ..
 
People have been saying this about EA for years now. Strange to see it is finaly taking effect on them.
 
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