I'd love to know how much it actually sold and what their expectations were. We're obviously not gonna find out, they're far too comfortable sitting on that information for themselves, though.
I'd go out on a limb and guess they might've expected/ needed it to do the "Magical Million", and perhaps it sold something like 1.2 million. This seems exceptionally unlikely however, seeing as I very much doubt an enhanced port became million seller on a system with an install base somewhere between 15 and 20 million units, so... A scenario where they expected to sell 500 000 and got 600-700 000 seems the most likely to me.
Unless there are actually numbers out there and I just made an ass out of myself, that's what Imma guesstimate.
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The only issue I have with this prequel is it's going to be weird to have a Rocksteady Batman game without the Joker being voiced by Hamil.
I wouldn't be surprised if they recast everyone, considering how different modern Batman is from Silver Age.
My guess is that "prequel" is the wrong word for this. If it's really Silver Age, I have to think this will be another thing entirely and not actually related to the Arkham games directly. So it's a "prequel" in that it takes place in like the 50s or whatever, but otherwise it's not related to the same storyline.
I'd guess that the tone would be much closer to the old FREEDOM FORCE games. That shows you how long the DCUO game was in production, it was being worked on at the same time as FF2.
I remember a lot of Europeans on forums trying hard to find copies of Tales of the Abyss. They got it 3 months earlier than us, and during the critical holiday season. I'm not surprised at all that it did well there. It's still one of the only RPGs for 3DS.
Personally I enjoy it quite a bit, I haven't finished it because it's really long but it's fun with decent graphics and sound for a handheld. Plot has its ups and downs.
I remember a lot of Europeans on forums trying hard to find copies of Tales of the Abyss. They got it 3 months earlier than us, and during the critical holiday season. I'm not surprised at all that it did well there. It's still one of the only RPGs for 3DS.
Yeah, it probably helped that the PS2 version was never released in Europe.
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IGN/Gamefront is running a report of a rumor that the board of directors may replace current CEO John Riccitiello with COO Peter Moore after the next earnings call on July 30th. While, I am not sure about Moore being CEO, I think it would be a good move on EA's part. Riccitiello seemed too obsessed with dethroning Activision's CoD and WoW.
Steve Ballmer, the bullish CEO of Microsoft, has outlined his determination to stop Apple having things its own way in its key markets.
Admitting that Microsoft has “in the past ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation to Apple” the exec would have the world believe that the upcoming Surface tablet represents a changing of the tide.
"We are trying to make absolutely clear we are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple," he told CRN. "We are not. No space uncovered that is Apple’s.
“We have our advantages in productivity. We have our advantages in terms of enterprise management, manageability. We have got our advantages in terms of when you plug into server infrastructure in the enterprise.
"We are not going to let any piece of this. Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch. We’re not going to leave any stone unturned, so to speak, as we pursue that."
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Steve Ballmer, the bullish CEO of Microsoft, has outlined his determination to stop Apple having things its own way in its key markets.
Admitting that Microsoft has “in the past ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation to Apple” the exec would have the world believe that the upcoming Surface tablet represents a changing of the tide.
"We are trying to make absolutely clear we are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple," he told CRN. "We are not. No space uncovered that is Apple’s.
“We have our advantages in productivity. We have our advantages in terms of enterprise management, manageability. We have got our advantages in terms of when you plug into server infrastructure in the enterprise.
"We are not going to let any piece of this. Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch. We’re not going to leave any stone unturned, so to speak, as we pursue that."
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I guess you could say Microsoft is going majorhard in trying to turn the Apple rotten.
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That's a great comment by Ballmer...."Yeah, we let Apple have innovation for a while, but now we need to tug that leash short, y'know? Cause we have sexy words like 'management', 'productivity','enterprise', and 'infrastructure'. The stuff that the average consumer on the street really cares about!"
IGN/Gamefront is running a report of a rumor that the board of directors may replace current CEO John Riccitiello with COO Peter Moore after the next earnings call on July 30th. While, I am not sure about Moore being CEO, I think it would be a good move on EA's part. Riccitiello seemed too obsessed with dethroning Activision's CoD and WoW.
Wouldn't be shocked in the least, especially since Riccitiello's been getting flogged lately, and with The Old Republic being a bit of a financial flop on top of things being rather shaky I could see the company wanting to initiate change.
I'd love to know how much it actually sold and what their expectations were. We're obviously not gonna find out, they're far too comfortable sitting on that information for themselves, though.
I'd go out on a limb and guess they might've expected/ needed it to do the "Magical Million", and perhaps it sold something like 1.2 million. This seems exceptionally unlikely however, seeing as I very much doubt an enhanced port became million seller on a system with an install base somewhere between 15 and 20 million units, so... A scenario where they expected to sell 500 000 and got 600-700 000 seems the most likely to me.
Unless there are actually numbers out there and I just made an ass out of myself, that's what Imma guesstimate.
I'd bet it probably ended up selling around 100k after all of its production runs.
IGN/Gamefront is running a report of a rumor that the board of directors may replace current CEO John Riccitiello with COO Peter Moore after the next earnings call on July 30th. While, I am not sure about Moore being CEO, I think it would be a good move on EA's part. Riccitiello seemed too obsessed with dethroning Activision's CoD and WoW.
Wouldn't be shocked in the least, especially since Riccitiello's been getting flogged lately, and with The Old Republic being a bit of a financial flop on top of things being rather shaky I could see the company wanting to initiate change.
It'd purely be a scapegoat move. Moore's high enough up that he agreed with most of the moves Riccitiello has made.
This is just shareholders wanting someone to blame.
Riccitiello tried turning EA into a publisher of awesome and interesting new games and IPs. That didn't work, so, to please shareholders, he tried relying on sequels and "Let's Copy Activision" with Battlefield and TOR. That is.. well I guess Battlfield has done really well, if not COD well, and I guess TOR has done mediocre (ie not good enough). So now I guess the shareholders and/or board has lost faith. Time to blame him and throw on a new guy!
IGN/Gamefront is running a report of a rumor that the board of directors may replace current CEO John Riccitiello with COO Peter Moore after the next earnings call on July 30th. While, I am not sure about Moore being CEO, I think it would be a good move on EA's part. Riccitiello seemed too obsessed with dethroning Activision's CoD and WoW.
Wouldn't be shocked in the least, especially since Riccitiello's been getting flogged lately, and with The Old Republic being a bit of a financial flop on top of things being rather shaky I could see the company wanting to initiate change.
It'd purely be a scapegoat move. Moore's high enough up that he agreed with most of the moves Riccitiello has made.
This is just shareholders wanting someone to blame.
Oh, sure. EA isn't doing THAT badly; in fact their digital initiative has done pretty darn well. But the negative PR has piled up.
On another topic, the Theatrhythm DLC is rolling out on a steady clip, marking a new chapter for the 3DS. North America's already getting music from other Final Fantasy games, like XIII-2 and even Versus, which still doesn't have anything approaching a release date. Maybe that's a hint that it still exists?
At any rate, a check of the Japanese DLC list shows that even with all the stuff from side and unreleased games and craptons of additional songs for the on-cart games, they've gone out of their way to not release a thing from FF XIV. Wonder why. :P
First of all to the 3DS XL, we will not be selling this at a loss, we don’t have a huge profit margin on it we intend to sell it a profit. As for Wii U we having even announced price so it’s too early for me to comment.
When we looked at the design of the 3DS XL we had to look at various factors, one was battery life, one was the overall size of the unit, and we had to make some trade-offs. The choice, if we were going to include the second analogue stick, was to reduce the size of the batters or make the unit much bigger.
What we wanted to do was have a bigger screen in comparison with the overall size of the system, so had various discussions and had to make trade-offs and this is the outcome.
Attaching a second analogue stick is possible but it would have made the system even bigger and, though it perhaps puts a burden on people that really want that second stick, it’s a call we had to make and these people will have to live with it.
This [the lack of a second stick] isn’t my main focus when I look at the 3DS XL, it’s one point we had to cover, but for me personally I’m quite happy with the product we’re able to offer.
But I think it’s an important element, it makes graphics more impactful, it proves a sense of immersion that 2D doesn’t have, so I would say generally that 3D is better than 2D. It’s nice to have good graphics but not necessarily on their own, so I don’t think we’ll present [3D graphics] as one of the key features of our consoles but will probably stick with 3D as one of the minor elements of our consoles in the future.
Tales of the Abyss went through a reprinting in both the US and as far as I can tell Europe, but it also must be said that the first print run was tiny.
This won't be the first time though that a Tales game was successful on a Nintendo platform but followed up with less successful games on other systems making it over. Tales of Symphonia lead to the less successful Legendia and Abyss titles on the PS2. ToS2 was followed by the less successful ToV, and ToA was followed by the absolute crater-like impact of Graces F.
Namco being Namco though they'll probably rush over Innocence R now.
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Riccitiello tried turning EA into a publisher of awesome and interesting new games and IPs. That didn't work, so, to please shareholders, he tried relying on sequels and "Let's Copy Activision" with Battlefield and TOR. That is.. well I guess Battlfield has done really well, if not COD well, and I guess TOR has done mediocre (ie not good enough). So now I guess the shareholders and/or board has lost faith. Time to blame him and throw on a new guy!
Well that's the thing. What's triggering them to put him under; having tried the "we need original IPs" thing or trying the annual-titles business model? If it was the former, NOTHING will change at EA nor for the shareholders. If it's the latter, then hey, maybe there's some freakin' hope for this industry yet.
Riccitiello tried turning EA into a publisher of awesome and interesting new games and IPs. That didn't work, so, to please shareholders, he tried relying on sequels and "Let's Copy Activision" with Battlefield and TOR. That is.. well I guess Battlfield has done really well, if not COD well, and I guess TOR has done mediocre (ie not good enough). So now I guess the shareholders and/or board has lost faith. Time to blame him and throw on a new guy!
Well that's the thing. What's triggering them to put him under; having tried the "we need original IPs" thing or trying the annual-titles business model? If it was the former, NOTHING will change at EA nor for the shareholders. If it's the latter, then hey, maybe there's some freakin' hope for this industry yet.
I am completely certain that the board of shareholders are upset at a lack of new IP and high-quality games.
You know, it's a lot easier to type that with a straight face, than it is to say it.
Bioware/EA's latest....thing. An F2P "Action RPG" set in Ultima.
....Who the hell is Lady British?
Lady British is the new Lord British, because Richard Garriott - I believe - has the rights to the Lord British stuff and EA doesn't feel like going through his hoops to use it, especially with how bitter Garriott's "departure" from EA was.
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I'd imagine that the use of "Lady British" will piss off 95% of the people who would actually like to play a new Ultima game.
Oh, Amazing Alex is out today... that's the first non-avian thing Rovio's done. We'll see how that one goes.
I would hope that EA has no illusions that this new Ultima game will attract the series' former demographic. I can't think of a demographic less likely to play a FTP action RPG than cranky old PC RPG fans like me. I mean, we rebelled against Ultima 8, for crying out loud.
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I'd imagine that the use of "Lady British" will piss off 95% of the people who would actually like to play a new Ultima game.
Oh, Amazing Alex is out today... that's the first non-avian thing Rovio's done. We'll see how that one goes.
I would hope that EA has no illusions that this new Ultima game will attract the series' former demographic. I can't think of a demographic less likely to play a FTP action RPG than cranky old PC RPG fans like me. I mean, we rebelled against Ultima 8, for crying out loud.
I actually tweeted this sentiment (pretty much) earlier. It's already pretty far removed from the hallmarks of what the series is known for. It has that smell of "attract the new gaming audience" all around it. Which isn't a bad thing necessarily - it's only a bad thing when established brands get taken down that road.
I'd imagine that the use of "Lady British" will piss off 95% of the people who would actually like to play a new Ultima game.
Oh, Amazing Alex is out today... that's the first non-avian thing Rovio's done. We'll see how that one goes.
I would hope that EA has no illusions that this new Ultima game will attract the series' former demographic. I can't think of a demographic less likely to play a FTP action RPG than cranky old PC RPG fans like me. I mean, we rebelled against Ultima 8, for crying out loud.
Well, it's strongly tied to the whole "virtue" thing of yore, so they're definitely trying for it. Though you can only raise the "sacrifice" virtue meter by doing guess what.
Yeh, actual fans of the Ultima series/Lord British/Richard Garriot aren't going to say "Hey, there's a Lady British, this will be just like the old Ultima's!".
(EA would still be in the lead of MMORPG's if LB had been allowed to keep UO the way he originally designed it.)
(EA would still be in the lead of MMORPG's if LB had been allowed to keep UO the way he originally designed it.)
Are you speaking of a quality assessment or actual business? I sure hope you mean the former because that's a fair enough opinion to hold, but if you mean the latter, you're just as crazy as EA thinking they can smooth things over with 'Lady British.'
I'd imagine that the use of "Lady British" will piss off 95% of the people who would actually like to play a new Ultima game.
Oh, Amazing Alex is out today... that's the first non-avian thing Rovio's done. We'll see how that one goes.
I would hope that EA has no illusions that this new Ultima game will attract the series' former demographic. I can't think of a demographic less likely to play a FTP action RPG than cranky old PC RPG fans like me. I mean, we rebelled against Ultima 8, for crying out loud.
Well, it's strongly tied to the whole "virtue" thing of yore, so they're definitely trying for it. Though you can only raise the "sacrifice" virtue meter by doing guess what.
That's actually pretty amusing. Though if Lord British himself didn't have better things to do right now, I'd love to hear his musings on just how much having the Virtues be bars that need to be filled misses the entire point.
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Just leave the dessicated corpse of Ultima alone. EA fucked up UO beyond all recognition, I have zero expectations regarding this game. I hope this flops hard and Garriott swoops in to reclaim the IP. That would be just swell.
Fortnite, the game from Epic that seems to be a mix of Minecraft, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 is gonna be the first Unreal Engine 4 product to hit the market, and it'll be free to play PC game to boot.
... Wait a minute, wasn't this hyped as a 360 exclusive or something way back when? If so, that'd be kind of a dick move on Epic's part (maybe they're pissed off at Microsoft for not putting 8 gigs of RAM in the Nextbox, eh? Pffssshhh, yeah right)...
Anyhow, the screens all look pretty neat-o.
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Fortnite, the game from Epic that seems to be a mix of Minecraft, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 is gonna be the first Unreal Engine 4 product to hit the market, and it'll be free to play PC game to boot.
... Wait a minute, wasn't this hyped as a 360 exclusive or something way back when? If so, that'd be kind of a dick move on Epic's part (maybe they're pissed off at Microsoft for not putting 8 gigs of RAM in the Nextbox, eh? Pffssshhh, yeah right)...
Anyhow, the screens all look pretty neat-o.
LOVE the aesthetic they chose. It's like TWD meets TF2. I'll be all over this if it's actually good.
Just leave the dessicated corpse of Ultima alone. EA fucked up UO beyond all recognition, I have zero expectations regarding this game. I hope this flops hard and Garriott swoops in to reclaim the IP. That would be just swell.
I guess. It's not like Garriott is batting a thousand either.
So I guess EA was serious when they said F2P was the way of the future.
I remember back in the late 90's I had a magazine article talking about players hacking somehow and killing Lord British. But I mean, he was built to be indestructable anyway.
I'd imagine that the use of "Lady British" will piss off 95% of the people who would actually like to play a new Ultima game.
Oh, Amazing Alex is out today... that's the first non-avian thing Rovio's done. We'll see how that one goes.
I would hope that EA has no illusions that this new Ultima game will attract the series' former demographic. I can't think of a demographic less likely to play a FTP action RPG than cranky old PC RPG fans like me. I mean, we rebelled against Ultima 8, for crying out loud.
Well, it's strongly tied to the whole "virtue" thing of yore, so they're definitely trying for it. Though you can only raise the "sacrifice" virtue meter by doing guess what.
That's actually pretty amusing. Though if Lord British himself didn't have better things to do right now, I'd love to hear his musings on just how much having the Virtues be bars that need to be filled misses the entire point.
I don't know. Virtues were always rewards for specific actions, so those bars were there from the beginning. I thought it was weird how in Ultima 7 onwards how those bars weren't there any more and you were almost completely free to do all the unvirtuous stuff again.
... Wait a minute, wasn't this hyped as a 360 exclusive or something way back when? If so, that'd be kind of a dick move on Epic's part
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I wonder if there are any big companies that don't feel the need to shove an old IP onto a new game.
Not really and it's pretty pathetic. All they're doing is ruining these once great IPs and making it so that no one will ever want to buy a game with that name again. XCOM (the one everyone hates) or Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor anyone? It wouldn't be so bad if they were putting out quality games that were legitimately interesting fresh takes on old concepts but they're not. They're actually managing to one up Hollywood in the "who can put out more blatantly cash grabby bullshit" game.
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I'd go out on a limb and guess they might've expected/ needed it to do the "Magical Million", and perhaps it sold something like 1.2 million. This seems exceptionally unlikely however, seeing as I very much doubt an enhanced port became million seller on a system with an install base somewhere between 15 and 20 million units, so... A scenario where they expected to sell 500 000 and got 600-700 000 seems the most likely to me.
Unless there are actually numbers out there and I just made an ass out of myself, that's what Imma guesstimate.
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I'd guess that the tone would be much closer to the old FREEDOM FORCE games. That shows you how long the DCUO game was in production, it was being worked on at the same time as FF2.
Personally I enjoy it quite a bit, I haven't finished it because it's really long but it's fun with decent graphics and sound for a handheld. Plot has its ups and downs.
Yeah, it probably helped that the PS2 version was never released in Europe.
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I guess you could say Microsoft is going majorhard in trying to turn the Apple rotten.
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Wouldn't be shocked in the least, especially since Riccitiello's been getting flogged lately, and with The Old Republic being a bit of a financial flop on top of things being rather shaky I could see the company wanting to initiate change.
I'd bet it probably ended up selling around 100k after all of its production runs.
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It'd purely be a scapegoat move. Moore's high enough up that he agreed with most of the moves Riccitiello has made.
This is just shareholders wanting someone to blame.
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Oh, sure. EA isn't doing THAT badly; in fact their digital initiative has done pretty darn well. But the negative PR has piled up.
On another topic, the Theatrhythm DLC is rolling out on a steady clip, marking a new chapter for the 3DS. North America's already getting music from other Final Fantasy games, like XIII-2 and even Versus, which still doesn't have anything approaching a release date. Maybe that's a hint that it still exists?
At any rate, a check of the Japanese DLC list shows that even with all the stuff from side and unreleased games and craptons of additional songs for the on-cart games, they've gone out of their way to not release a thing from FF XIV. Wonder why. :P
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This won't be the first time though that a Tales game was successful on a Nintendo platform but followed up with less successful games on other systems making it over. Tales of Symphonia lead to the less successful Legendia and Abyss titles on the PS2. ToS2 was followed by the less successful ToV, and ToA was followed by the absolute crater-like impact of Graces F.
Namco being Namco though they'll probably rush over Innocence R now.
Well that's the thing. What's triggering them to put him under; having tried the "we need original IPs" thing or trying the annual-titles business model? If it was the former, NOTHING will change at EA nor for the shareholders. If it's the latter, then hey, maybe there's some freakin' hope for this industry yet.
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Bioware/EA's latest....thing. An F2P "Action RPG" set in Ultima.
....Who the hell is Lady British?
Is Richard Garriot married?
Edit - Oh fuck, not only is he married, but they just had their first child today.
I am completely certain that the board of shareholders are upset at a lack of new IP and high-quality games.
You know, it's a lot easier to type that with a straight face, than it is to say it.
Lady British is the new Lord British, because Richard Garriott - I believe - has the rights to the Lord British stuff and EA doesn't feel like going through his hoops to use it, especially with how bitter Garriott's "departure" from EA was.
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Oh, Amazing Alex is out today... that's the first non-avian thing Rovio's done. We'll see how that one goes.
I would hope that EA has no illusions that this new Ultima game will attract the series' former demographic. I can't think of a demographic less likely to play a FTP action RPG than cranky old PC RPG fans like me. I mean, we rebelled against Ultima 8, for crying out loud.
I actually tweeted this sentiment (pretty much) earlier. It's already pretty far removed from the hallmarks of what the series is known for. It has that smell of "attract the new gaming audience" all around it. Which isn't a bad thing necessarily - it's only a bad thing when established brands get taken down that road.
Well, it's strongly tied to the whole "virtue" thing of yore, so they're definitely trying for it. Though you can only raise the "sacrifice" virtue meter by doing guess what.
(EA would still be in the lead of MMORPG's if LB had been allowed to keep UO the way he originally designed it.)
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Are you speaking of a quality assessment or actual business? I sure hope you mean the former because that's a fair enough opinion to hold, but if you mean the latter, you're just as crazy as EA thinking they can smooth things over with 'Lady British.'
That's actually pretty amusing. Though if Lord British himself didn't have better things to do right now, I'd love to hear his musings on just how much having the Virtues be bars that need to be filled misses the entire point.
So I guess EA was serious when they said F2P was the way of the future.
Just leave the dessicated corpse of Ultima alone. EA fucked up UO beyond all recognition, I have zero expectations regarding this game. I hope this flops hard and Garriott swoops in to reclaim the IP. That would be just swell.
Fortnite, the game from Epic that seems to be a mix of Minecraft, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 is gonna be the first Unreal Engine 4 product to hit the market, and it'll be free to play PC game to boot.
http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/7/12/3155138/epic-games-fortnite-will-be-the-developers-first-unreal-engine-4-game
... Wait a minute, wasn't this hyped as a 360 exclusive or something way back when? If so, that'd be kind of a dick move on Epic's part (maybe they're pissed off at Microsoft for not putting 8 gigs of RAM in the Nextbox, eh? Pffssshhh, yeah right)...
Anyhow, the screens all look pretty neat-o.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
LOVE the aesthetic they chose. It's like TWD meets TF2. I'll be all over this if it's actually good.
I guess. It's not like Garriott is batting a thousand either.
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I remember back in the late 90's I had a magazine article talking about players hacking somehow and killing Lord British. But I mean, he was built to be indestructable anyway.
I don't know. Virtues were always rewards for specific actions, so those bars were there from the beginning. I thought it was weird how in Ultima 7 onwards how those bars weren't there any more and you were almost completely free to do all the unvirtuous stuff again.
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Not really and it's pretty pathetic. All they're doing is ruining these once great IPs and making it so that no one will ever want to buy a game with that name again. XCOM (the one everyone hates) or Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor anyone? It wouldn't be so bad if they were putting out quality games that were legitimately interesting fresh takes on old concepts but they're not. They're actually managing to one up Hollywood in the "who can put out more blatantly cash grabby bullshit" game.