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EA CCO: Battlefield 4 budget was $100 million

EA's Chief Creative Officer reveals the massive budget for Battlefield 4

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ZodTheRipper3834d ago

What? It's basically BF3 with more bugs and prettier graphics, they must be joking.

Pandamobile3834d ago (Edited 3834d ago )

It still takes 2 years and the effort of 300+ people to get to that point though. Not to mention marketing, and other internal production costs.

Godmars2903834d ago

So the question is how much went directly into production? What went towards marketing concerns.

Detoxx3834d ago

According to your logic, Fallout and The Elder Scrolls should be $10 games.

ZodTheRipper3834d ago

That's certainly not what I was implying. I'm just saying that I can't believe that those 100 million bucks went into game production (and quality assurance). It's 100 million dollar, just think about how much 1 million is already.

Detoxx3834d ago

DICE only failed on the QA part.

The game is fine now and it has the best FPS multiplayer.

Sevir3834d ago

Makes plenty sense that this was a hundred million dollar budget game, 5 platforms, R&D in pushing a newer engine 300+ developers, marketing, distribution, publisher-platform holder partnerships and post release work from rushing DICE to compete with COD and IW... Makes perfect sense

OwNizzleD3834d ago

It's way better than bf3 stop kidding yourself.

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voodoochild3463834d ago (Edited 3834d ago )

This the reason so many huge companies end up abruptly dying. The development costs are so high that they can't afford to have AAA games fail which leads to a lot less chances taken. Ubisoft could be next if watchdogs and ac 5 sell poorly.

linkenski3834d ago

So many money wasted on one of the worst campaigns I've ever seen in recent shooters. Useless mo-cap acting and an asinine script.

hello123834d ago

100 million on the game or perhaps lot of it was spend on wages and marketing.

brich2333834d ago

100 Million$ beta that may or may not be getting any better after the updates. Fix one thing, Break another.

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EA CEO Dubs The Next Battlefield "One Of The Most Ambitious Projects In Our History"

The CEO of EA has iterated his massive ambitions about the next Battlefield entry in the new Q1 2025 financial results.

Inverno40d ago

Clicked to say exactly this. They set themselves up for disappointing failure.

Cacabunga39d ago

When i hear them say this sounds like they keep surpassing themselves… just backwards..

micro transactions, always online, no SP campaign.. everything that makes me🤮

RaidenBlack40d ago

It ain't Bad Company 3 ... so stop false-promising ... but make it current-gen only plz ... it'll be 2025 ffs

blacktiger39d ago

damn! I was about that dream thing

Chocoburger40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

More intentionally released broken games with micro-trash-actions, and of course fake apologies written by ChatGPT instead of doing it yourself because you don't give a crap if you sell people garbage for their hard earned money.

Ass.

Seth_hun40d ago

They are always saying this, with every title. :)

Bebedora40d ago

EA is the superior do not doubt them. They are Canadian,

Snookies1240d ago (Edited 40d ago )

Isn't that the whole point of having a "series" of games? Isn't the follow-up supposed to be inherently better or "more ambitious" than the previous entries? Unfortunately, this has not been the case for Battlefield in quite some time. I've still never even redeemed the free BF 2042 code I got a year and a half ago lol. Such a shame, used to be one of my favorite shooters back in the day.

Bebedora40d ago

You just need colurs and some rainbows. Anything will work. BF was killed once EA got their filthy paws over it, like the monkeys they are.

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EA Announces "Strong" Financial Results After Record Launch for EA Sports College Football 25

EA announced its financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2024 and June 2024.

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neomahi42d ago

Gee, imagine that. When someone makes the effort to make something that isn't a mere update, it sells! When your sports development teams only spend two and a half months out of the year working on a game and spend the other nine and one half months just sitting around, wow!

That being said, if PlayStation's own IP developed in-house and on their time can be dictated by the MLB and Phil Spencers sniveling crybaby demands to competing platforms, EA must surely fall subject to the same deal by demand that Visual Concepts be permitted to resume 2K Sports franchises again. I went and played the demo for NHL 2K7 before the Xbox 360 store shutdown and wouldn't ya know it, it's better all around than EAs franchise but, I guess when you know you can't cut it and you'll never be as good as the other guy, you do what EA did and forever doom sports fans to lackluster games with as minimal effort as possible.

Finally, I think of all the genres of games, it's sports games that should be the Live Service or Games as a Service type games. You get minimal additions and roster corrections every year and that's about it, that nowhere near warrants a full-game price tag so they might as well make a single sports game for that sport and then do Season Pass for them since that's all they're doing and that would bring the overall cost of sports games from $59.99 and then having to pay again $69.99 for current Gen consoles down to $15- $19 a year. Seems fair right? That's about all it's worth, it's a software update every year, that's about it, but that's just me

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EA May Add A Replay Editor To Its Games

EA has published a new patent that wants to add a replay editor to its games, allowing players to modify the captured gameplay content.

sammichosaurus65d ago

They should fix their games first.

Knightofelemia65d ago

Most likely comes with microtransactions and loot boxes.

Inverno65d ago

Nah you just gotta watch a short, unskipable, 30 seconds ad every time you use the feature. Those same ads will then be automatically edited into your captured gameplay before your video is stored online (no local saves), where they will have the right to use for promotional purposes.

Snookies1265d ago (Edited 65d ago )

Please don't give them ideas, lol! That definitely sounds like something they'd love to do.