EA: Buy this game or we'll shoot this IP.

[Merusk]

DA: Legends was the forgettable and terrible Flash game on Facebook for those that might confuse it with DA3.

It wasn't good enough to bother with microtrans, never mind even partially as addictive as Farmville, Mafia Wars or whatever 'game' is big these days.

[Hoax]

I'd like to play Mass Effect 3 someday so the sooner they can die off so I can get it without Origins the happier I'll be.

[luckton]

I'd like to play Mass Effect 3 someday so the sooner they can die off so I can get it without Origins the happier I'll be.

+1.  Money talks, and if the bar is set at $300M, it really doesn't matter if we can't get a ton of gamers to boycott a title; just a small chunk is apparently enough.  Plus that whole word-of-mouth thing and their own damning reputation.

[koro]

Err, you may want to take another look at that article.

UPDATE: Dino Ignacio, UI Lead at Dead Space developer Visceral Games, has denied today's story about the end of the Dead Space series.

"The reports of our death were greatly exaggerated," he tweeted. "Please stand by."

Ian Milham, creative director at EA and ex-art director on Dead Space, also took to Twitter to deny the story.

"Almost nothing in that article is true," he wrote. Then, in response to a question on Twitter: "I confirm nothing except the hooey in that story."

EA's US PR team has reportedly called the VideoGamer.com report "patently false".

"While we have not announced sales for Dead Space 3, we are proud of the game and the franchise remains an important IP to EA," an EA spokesperson told Eurogamer.

[Yegolev]

I'd like to play Mass Effect 3 someday so so the sooner they can die off so I can get it without Origins the happier I'll be.

I'll just get it on 360, like the first two.

[HaemishM]

For a video game to have to sell 5 MILLION copies to break even, that's such a poorly run business model, it is doomed to failure. I certainly hope that's wrong. However, if it is right, I look forward to EA losing the exclusive NFL license so we can have football games that aren't regurgitated shit every year.

[shiznitz]

For a video game to have to sell 5 MILLION copies to break even, that's such a poorly run business model, it is doomed to failure. I certainly hope that's wrong. However, if it is right, I look forward to EA losing the exclusive NFL license so we can have football games that aren't regurgitated shit every year.

The word "viable" does not necessarily mean break even, but if it does then that is crazy.  The fact that they benchmark to a gross sales figure is a warning sign that they don't really focus on efficient development.  A more rational economic model would be to require a 3 year IRR f 15% or more.  Smaller sales opportunity, smaller budget but don't set the benchmark at gross sales.  That is not even a meaningful economic variable since EA doesn't get gross.

[Fabricated]

Err, you may want to take another look at that article.

UPDATE: Dino Ignacio, UI Lead at Dead Space developer Visceral Games, has denied today's story about the end of the Dead Space series.

"The reports of our death were greatly exaggerated," he tweeted. "Please stand by."

Ian Milham, creative director at EA and ex-art director on Dead Space, also took to Twitter to deny the story.

"Almost nothing in that article is true," he wrote. Then, in response to a question on Twitter: "I confirm nothing except the hooey in that story."

EA's US PR team has reportedly called the VideoGamer.com report "patently false".

"While we have not announced sales for Dead Space 3, we are proud of the game and the franchise remains an important IP to EA," an EA spokesperson told Eurogamer.

Yeah and EA said they were going to stick with the Medal of Honor IP during the inital "WTF this is kinda bad" preview reactions and through the early part of the review bombing it got, because they wanted to do alternate year releases of MoH and BF.

[Lakov_Sanite]

EA claiming this is a false story seems to just be damage control. Dead space may not be cancelled YET but that's not the same as it being a done deal in the future.

[Paelos]

There's still microtrans to sell. Declaring it dead would kill the cash flow. Best to play PR shadow games for a month or two in the hopes people are dumb enough to keep buying.

Oh and keep that ridiculuous ad campaign going I see constantly on Adult Swim and Comedy Central. That ad budget needs to go somewhere.

[Lakov_Sanite]

EA blew all their money licensing Peter Gabriel.

[tgr]

[eldaec]

Still unclear why people are bothered that EA might not make a FORTH retread of dead space.

Even if you REALLY LIKE dead space, do you honestly need four of it?

[eldaec]

I mean, I really like the popular action oriented motion picture "Die Hard".

However I would probably not be inconsolable if "Die Hard 6 : Fuck off and die hard in a car fire" were to be cancelled.

"Die Hard" will still exist even if the "franchise" didn't produce any more crap.

[Simond]

Still unclear why people are bothered that EA might not make a FORTH retread of dead space.

I mean, even if you REALLY LIKE dead space, do you honestly need four of it?

Especially since the game Dead Space desperately wanted to be is on GoG now anyway, and still better.

[Fabricated]

Dead Space 1 and 2 are entirely alright games I think got slagged off a bit too much by people. The only thing I'll give them is the whole monster closet thing and how fucking annoying it is that they won't get rid of the loud strings that play when you see any enemy. That was stupid as hell.

I think 1/2 did a pretty good job of being reasonably atmospheric but more in an original RE-series sort of way than a Silent Hill kinda way. The story IMO was alright as well, it's just they did a terrible job at characterizing the villains, and I hear the badguy in 3 is hilariously bad. The "badguy" so to speak of 1 was a pretty good heel turn, and Tiedmann in 2 was alright but not present very often.

Ah well, RIP to a decent IP that could've been better without publisher meddling.

[tgr]

I dunno, I felt that dead space wanted to be a horror game, but went the doom 3 route of throwing too many monsters at you at inconvenient angles (often from the rear), which didn't really come off as all that scary after a while. Not after having played FEAR and Amnesia, anyhow.

[Fabricated]

That was the monster closet thing. The second game is vaguely more transparent at times about it (and randomizes a lot of stuff) but both 1 and 2 were filled to the brim with painfully, eye-rollingly obvious "Alright you're gonna pick up this key/hit this switch/walk through this door and shit is going to break loose" stuff, and way way overuses the trick where necromorphs play dead.

Both games have some good scares/scenes- the machine you need to use near the end of 2 and one of the jumpscares in 2 are going to be remembered like the dogs from RE1 if you ask me.