If PD2 & Payday games were bought by EA

[Stret]

And EA began to care about the game, and they would begin to make considerable profit & increase and players with few changes for no specific reason,and randomly ( so dont come with " If there is more players = they are making good choices ")

what do you think would happen?

[Roloca]

引用自 Salem φ：

Can't be worse than what Overkill did.

Kinda what I wanted to say. The game has ~50 DLCs on top of microtransactions. Balance is all over the place and non-PC versions are almost abandoned.

[TSense]

They would make a DLC, cut it in 2 and sell them both overpriced.

Like 1 map, 1 heister, 2 weapons, 1 perk deck and useless ♥♥♥♥ nobody cares about to fill it up (4 melee reskins, 4 masks, 4 patterns, 4 materials) so it doesn't look so empty.

All that in 2 DLC that are both 7 bucks and don't go on sale at all at the next sale.
Even if they could have made a profit with selling it both together for 5 bucks.



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引用自  Lancelot  ：

引用自 Arrancar：

Bad things, same with Activision or Ubisoft.
Blizzard would be best, after that Bethesda. Although Valve would be pretty decent, maybe they would get rid of cheaters, but probably modders(or mostly them :() as well, so dunno about that.

Bethesda better than Blizzard / Activision / Ubisoft? You mean the same company that keep re-releasing the same game over and over, goes with paying mods and so on... I mean... If I would have read that 10 years ago. Fair enough... but right now they are no better than ubisoft.

Bethesda consists of more than just Bethesda Game Studios, ya know. Wolfenstein 1+2, Dishonored 1+2, Doom 2016, Prey have all had some of the least BS in the games industry for the last 5 years. Their publishing division is on point and frankly I agree they would be better than any other AAA publisher.

[0ptimistPrime (the Gray)]

引用自 Arrancar：

Bad things, same with Activision ...
... Blizzard would be best ...

Aren't they literally the same thing, though? "Activision Blizzard."

[BlackRibbon]

引用自 Optimist Prime (the Gray)：

引用自 Arrancar：

Bad things, same with Activision ...
... Blizzard would be best ...

Aren't they literally the same thing, though? "Activision Blizzard."

Somewhat. They are still technically their own entity, but Activision still has their own say.

[BitsOfSkin]

引用自 Black Ribbon：

They'd shut down Overkill for Dead by Daylight not selling well.

...Since when does OVK make DbD ?

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On topic : EA buys Starbreeze and OVK, Payday franchise gets milked dry and dies, DbD gets killed off/milked some more then dies, new Walking Dead game gets released as is, incomplete and full of bugs, then killed off silently.
Just like you see with everything else they do that isn't Battlefield.

And the Dev teams all get fired and studios either filled with new devs or dissolved outright.

Can't happen though, since the games have steamworks and/or Valve's Market System embedded, and EA refuses to do business with Valve on that level.
The cost would outweigh the profits.
And we all know that EA only answers to it's shareholders...

[NIKFS]

EA would obviously shut down the game due to "your opinions, our idiocy" :P

[JeanneOskoure]

Nothing.
There is nothing left that isn't ruined.

[_Vexxii]

引用自 NIK_F_S：

EA would obviously shut down the game due to "your opinions, our idiocy" :P

EA Knowledge: Your opinion, our DLC and microtransactions
OVERKILL isn't that bad, but still have a tiny issue of "Your opinion, our choice".

[∴ Snake ∴]

引用自 JeanneOskoure：

Nothing.
There is nothing left that isn't ruined.

Pretty much. I stopped having fun with the game and I might actually uninstall it.

引用自 Vexxii：

引用自 NIK_F_S：

EA would obviously shut down the game due to "your opinions, our idiocy" :P

OVERKILL isn't that bad, but still have a tiny issue of "Your opinion, our choice".

That's literally what every other company does. You don't just make plans for huge content updates and then scrap it because a few people didn't like it.

[drewbstar]

引用自 ∴ Snake ∴：

引用自 JeanneOskoure：

Nothing.
There is nothing left that isn't ruined.

Pretty much. I stopped having fun with the game and I might actually uninstall it.

引用自 Vexxii：

OVERKILL isn't that bad, but still have a tiny issue of "Your opinion, our choice".

That's literally what every other company does. You don't just make plans for huge content updates and then scrap it because a few people didn't like it.

"A few people"
Lol
"Stats say otherwise! Players seem to be loving it!"
Until... the numbers don't say otherwise lol.
"You" also don't make your community jump through hoops or threaten to not release the content. Like boosting people's twitters.

[_Vexxii]

引用自 ∴ Snake ∴：

引用自 JeanneOskoure：

Nothing.
There is nothing left that isn't ruined.

Pretty much. I stopped having fun with the game and I might actually uninstall it.

引用自 Vexxii：

OVERKILL isn't that bad, but still have a tiny issue of "Your opinion, our choice".

That's literally what every other company does. You don't just make plans for huge content updates and then scrap it because a few people didn't like it.

引用自 Vexxii：

tiny issue

[💗Vaultinspector Butterbrezel]

引用自 Salem φ：

引用自 💗Vaultinspector Butterbrezel：

looks like you know 0 about ea´s history.

I know they've ruined some of my favorite IPs (SimCity) only to kill off the studios because sales didn't meet their crazy expectations.
But imo Starbreeze are exactly the same, look what happened to LGL. Nearly all the devs have been supposedly fired. I can't say it's directly because of Starbreeze, but they likely abandoned them. As for the Payday series, they ruined it for me as well. And they also pulled a microtransaction controversy.

Both companies are way more similar than what you'd think. Though I think it applies to all AAA publishers (and those who believe they are *winks at Bo*).

i have to agry.starbreze is a bad puplisher too. i wasnt there from the start in payday. i joint 1-2 month after the microtransaction stuff. but what i saw is that ovk tried to rollback alother bad stuff from the past.
if they did a good job is on a other page. i disagree with a few stuff, most is how they did the ethan dlc. if they whant to help them ok, but youtuber as heister... even ronald mc donald would have been a better choice.
but you could see that the will was there after they bought theyr rights back.

and yes AAA= bad game nowadays. :/

[Infinite Thwomp Works]

引用自 Stret1311：

And EA began to care about the game

...And, at this point in this hypothetical scenario, enough pigs are flying that you could solve world hunger by selling pork wings.

Say what you will about Overkill, but they're literal, canonized saints compared to EA. There is no remotely realistic scenario in which EA owning the Payday license would be a good thing or even an improvement.

I know that "Overkill is the new EA" was a spicy meme back in the day but honestly those people were WAY off the mark from an overly literal standpoint (I, personally, would compare them more to modern Capcom). EA is an all-consuming black hole where anything good in gaming goes to die.

[Grey Star, The Rival Defender]

引用自 Salem φ：

引用自 Rex：

Apparently that raid devs being fired was a fake thing with no grounding.
So even a flop like RaidWW2 didnt get the studio burned to the ground unlike what we know EA does.

That's only the official version, but there's way enough circumstancial evidence to believe the opposite. Some devs that disappeared all of a sudden like Renic, the really slow update rate with only bug fixes and reskins, the fact that Ilija didn't deny that devs were laid off (only that support was still on-going), various testimonies...

Where can I subscribe to the Breibart of gaming information?

引用自 ∴ Snake ∴：

引用自 JeanneOskoure：

Nothing.
There is nothing left that isn't ruined.

Pretty much. I stopped having fun with the game and I might actually uninstall it.

Good idea, thanks.