A demo for Mass Effect 3 is on the way, and those who purchase the limited edition of EA's upcoming blockbuster First Person Shooter Battlefield 3 will get early access, according to images from a new unboxing of the game.
The voucher to recieve "early access to the multiplayer portion of the Mass Effect 3 demo" was ousted by a YouTube channel dedicated to unboxing new video game releases, appropriately named "TheUnboxerHDX".
The voucher features a generic-looking soldier in Mass Effect armor with Battlefield's signature orange glow and a set of N7 Mass Effect 3 dog tags to try to link the imagery of the two rather different games. The N7/Mass Effect dog tags are available for use in Battlefield 3 by all who use the code.
The fact that the sheet refers to it being the "multiplayer portion" indicates a single player portion will likely also be released. The sheet indicates a date for the demo will be announced in January 2012.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
Awesome.
Sweet, can't wait! Im finishing my 4th run of ME2 right now.
Another sign that the ME series has gone over to shooters rather than remained an RPG.
I was gonna wait til X-Mas to get this game (financial woes) but...but...early Mass Effect 3 demo!? Hard to pass up...
wow only EA would make you buy a FPS to get a demo of a RPG