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Short Pause Reacts: EA Play 2016 Event

Short Pause: "Ben, Brent, Frankie, and Bender weigh in on the EA 2016 Play Event. While Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 didn't fail to impress, the fellas feel that the Mass Effect Andromeda and Star War sections were a little strange."

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TheDude793505d ago

I enjoyed the show overall, but I can't help feel that it didn't live up it's potential. BF1 and TF2 reveals were great, the sports stuff was there for those who live and breath it. It's just the Star Wars bit and Mass Effect bit felt like they deserved better than a behind-the-scenes look, especially Mass Effect considering that's much further along. Overall, good show, but could've been much better.

tazmeah3505d ago

As a huge Mass Effect fan, while I agree a fully cinematic trailer would've killed the whole show, I was still pumped to see what we saw, hear a little bit about what the story will be about, and getting a glimpse at our protagonist. Granted, I'm bias towards Mass Effect, but I was really happy about what we saw.

ps3vita4life3505d ago (Edited 3505d ago )

I found it extremely underwhelming. I swear most of the show was sports, cringey interviews/moments and dragged on introductions to their games. No gameplay demos or surprise announcements (besides Fe) was at their show. I expected at least short demos from all their big games especially Mass Effect (save for BF1 MP which was expected).

jb2273505d ago

Same here...I'm still not sure why it even existed. What little was there could've been shown at Sony or MS or PC events. It was an hour long show with maybe 10 minutes of worthwhile content at a stretch.

Been watching E3 a long time, wasn't expecting anything huge from EA but that was easily one of the most underwhelming conferences I've seen in E3 history. Really hoping this show doesn't set the pace for E3 2016. So far we most likely know Bethesda's entire conference but it'll be cool to see that stuff in motion, so it'll easily best EA...we've seen so many leaks from MS' show I can't imagine many surprises there, but again at least we will finally get to see a lot of games in motion....Nintendo is entirely about Zelda so that'll be fun...really Sony's show is the only one left with any potential for surprises, so most of E3 is hinging on Sony this year for me...

Pongwater3504d ago

Yeah I got excited when I realized an E3 showcase was about to start, but I ended up turning it off out of boredom, going back to it because I felt I might miss something good, and then turning it off again. That guy talking about the FIFA story mode was especially cringe inducing for me.

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Rockstar launches official marketplace for mods

Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.

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Christopher2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.

Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.

fr0sty11h ago

What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.

ActualWhiteMan14h ago

Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.

Christopher11h ago

It's okay as long as they get a cut of the money.

fr0sty11h ago

Expect R* to force it on you.

Snookies125h ago

Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.

IanTH11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.

Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.

I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.

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Kotick claims lawsuit objecting to MS-Activision deal was "tied to Embracer's desire to boost sales"

Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.

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OpenGL1d 8h ago

Yeah, the Microsoft deal has DEFINITELY worked out for everyone.

galgor1d 5h ago

Can this mother fucker just get lost already

PRIMORDUS1d 4h ago

He belongs in here ⚰️, hopefully sooner than later.

MrDead13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.

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An Update to Our Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming

Discover how Sony Interactive Entertainment, Nintendo, and Microsoft continue to collaborate to improve player safety across our platforms.

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