EA Play Live Press Conference 2018

EA writes: "Join us here for our live EA PLAY press conference where we will take you inside some of our biggest games of the year, live from The Hollywood Palladium. The next Battlefield, Anthem and some of your favorite EA SPORTS games will all have big reveals during the show."

[Asuka]

Hoping to hear something (anything) about Titanfall 3 but who knows...

[Newmanator]

Interesting point. They need something super fresh to stay ahead of the pack. And maybe a mid-year release so it doesn't get slaughtered by the regs.

[naruga]

cringe moment detected ...FIFA woman abravista yell !! (or whatever the f..said)

[indysurfn]

EA will announce mega micro transactions. Not for 99.99 not 49.99 no not even for 29.99 but for 2,999.99 you can buy cross play micro transactions.

BUT WAIT there's more for 83 cents you can get it all free! Just pay separate 'electronic' shipping and handling of 3,9989.99.

But wait there's even more! just buy our game full price, THEN we will announce the micro transactions plus micro pricing.

[OB1Biker]

Or Stig Star Wars game?

[sprinterboy]

Really enjoyed the 2nd

[-Foxtrot]

Just EA Sports for the majority of the conference...even though the majority of people who buy EA Sports games probably don't even watch E3 or know what the hell it is.

[Gazondaily]

Same! Need some Titanfall news

[Gazondaily]

Watch this on Mixer instead...the quality is MAD!

[starchild]

Unravel Two looks amazing. And it's available now!

[angelsx]

It’s painful to watch.Garbage show

[Asuka]

No TF3 sadFace

[Lighter9]

Going to be cringeworthy, no doubt.

[sprinterboy]

Hope they cut the sports stuff, they could just release them trailers and info after the show imo

[bluefox755]

Yeah, I feel like the people who play madden, and buy it every year, don't really need a sales pitch.

[AnubisG]

And it was.

[Relientk77]

The conference I'm least hyped for because it's 80% sports.

Hopefully they show something cool

[Lighter9]

*80% MTs.

[Relientk77]

Yeah that and loot boxes

[sprinterboy]

I wonder if we hear any kind of apology regarding there business practices and talk alittle about consumer trust moving fwd

[PapaBop]

EA won't directly apologise, they'll do something like reiterate how they're a player first company in a holier than thou manner.

[AnubisG]

There was nothing of the sort. In fact Andrew Wilson detailed how they will take gaming to the next microtransaction level and how they will take more ownership of games away from us. He was hyping a GaaS to no end and kept lying how they want to make good games and that is the most important. That guy was such a liar. I wonder why they did not boo him off the stage.

[indysurfn]

True that times 10!

[PhantomS42]

Who's ready for 45 minutes of boring stiff PR speak and sports video games with maybe something interesting at the end?

[Christopher]

*raises hand*

Not much else to do today, so the bar is kinda low...

[PapaBop]

Nah, that paint isn't going to watch itself dry.. that only comes in the premium deluxe edition alongside 3 days early access.

[indysurfn]

ROFL.....every time a drop of the paint drys you have to pay!

[sprinterboy]

Looking fwd to anthem and seeing how it's progressed.

[DVAcme]

Well, apparently, it hasn't progressed AT ALL. Pathetic amount of game footage that ran like crap.

[indysurfn]

Looking forward to pressuring the individual developers into spilling how ANTHEM will get micro transactions AFTER it is released!

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

It feels a little bit like Xenoblade X, but that's about as much as I can say about it at this point.
I hope it does well, though.

[Psychosious]

I’m done giving EA chances. They have to prove to me I should be interested until then I’ll be having fun playing my single player experiences.

[sprinterboy]

Reboot of dead space would be awesome but don't think it's gonna happen 😞

[SegaGamer]

Get the worst out of the way first, but i'm happy for EA to prove me wrong, although it's pretty unlikely.

[Bhuahahaha]

if wilson says he's stepping down as EA ceo on stage ~that will be one of the best moments on E3

[indysurfn]

More people may cheer then cheered with FINAL FANTASY VII remake was first announced! Heck while we are at it some one may pass out like the guy during the Smash reveal by Nintendo.

[Majin-vegeta]

Let's get BF5 gameplay on the road

[sprinterboy]

Wasn't expecting her to host ok

[indysurfn]

haha. Maybe they didnt want to get booed off stage so they thought who would boo her?!

[leemo19]

BR mode no surprise there......

[SegaGamer]

I really see no point dedicating time to FIFA games, we know what we are going to get.

[outsider1624]

Well this time is different. They've got the Champions League license. Not that i care anyway. I prefer pes's gameplay. But getting the license is huge.

[leemo19]

The crowd in a nutshell https://i.imgflip.com/7oe6l...

[RainbowBrite]

MTs sport, it's in the gaaaame

[outsider1624]

Unravel two...God damn...didn't know they were gonna release a sequel. Helll yeahhh! Loved the first game.

[SegaGamer]

Are these people on drugs? they sound off their face XD

[sprinterboy]

The bf5 guy couldn't even say the name of his game properly lol, slurring his words haha

[georgenancy]

this is so bad lol

[sprinterboy]

Some interesting Indies and bf5 looks great but yawn so far

[georgenancy]

typical EA cringe fest.Even with the bar set so low they still manage to f**k up

[sprinterboy]

So boring, looks like anthem will close the show, bf5 snow coming off the roof looked cool but it was hardly cool gameplay what they shown and nothing we hadn't really seen. So far I've seen nothing I'm interested in purchasing

[georgenancy]

terrible conference smh

[oasdada]

Look at the snow when it hits the ground

[luckytrouble]

Indie stuff? Cool. Battlefield V? Aight. Everything else? Blah. EA doesn’t know how to create hype at all, and it seems to only get worse with each new year. They don’t even advertise new features in their annual sports franchises anymore. They’re better off making the presentation 30 minutes, giving the indie studios some stage time, and rolling most everything else through a trailer reel.

[Antifan]

w..what? a mobile game. A fking mobile game!!!?

[InKnight7s]

No one is really analysing EA doing.
1. Ruining every titles including Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Need for Speed etc.

2. The very first company calls to ditch proper manuals

3. very first company worked last gen to ditch used games by including codes to activate online.

4. Releasing tons of DLCs and cosmotics with barely anything worthy.

5. Now playing hard role to make MTs and loot boxes as something standard in the industry.

Editt: accidental early submit.

[indysurfn]

A sell out disagreed with you!

[TallonIV]

Streaming a mobile game during your conference...?? Talk about filler! Typical EA.

[SegaGamer]

They think that just because it's called Command and Conquer that we will be interested. At the end of the day, it's still a typical crappy looking mobile game.

[leemo19]

Mr Roger painting a white fence, while Bob Ross paints Mr roger painting, is more interesting than EA conference.

[FunAndGun]

To be fair, that would be more interesting than most conferences....I would like to see that actually. I have so many questions...

[Imalwaysright]

Comand & Conquer?! Oh my....

[luckytrouble]

Oh. Command & Conquer reappears as a garbage freemium mobile game. The disappointment is real.

[chaosblades]

My beloved C&C 😔
Sad to see it turned into a Clash Royale clone.

[sprinterboy]

So anthem is basically destiny

[TallonIV]

Even the voice overs sounded like destiny -____-

[DVAcme]

Half Destiny, half Warframe.

[Platformgamer]

wow, they surpassed themselves again...
WORST EA conference since E3 existence

[SegaGamer]

Imagine comparing every e3 conference by EA over the last 10 years, it would be like torture XD

[MAULxx]

The EA conference really sucked! I guess it can only get better from here.

[indysurfn]

See ! I knew we could take 'something' positive from this! EA made set the bar low so that every one else could just walk over it!

[MAULxx]

You got that right. I wasn't expecting anything from them really & that's what I pretty much got. Nothing of interest for me. MS & Bethesda will probably blow my mind by comparison :).

[indysurfn]

:) true that!

[georgenancy]

R.I.P BIOWARE you will be missed

[MAULxx]

They've been over for a while imo.

[SegaGamer]

That scripted stuff during the Anthem gameplay was cringe worthy. Why do they insist on doing this every year? We don't play our games like that, it's lame.

[leemo19]

Anthem did nothing for me not hype at all. Destiny 2 expansion in sept got me more hype than it. They should've had more gp,way to short.

[I_am_Batman]

What a way to kick of E3. They almost put me to sleep with this conference. I didn't expect much and still got disappointed. 4/10.

[DVAcme]

4/10? Wow, dude, you're being GENEROUS!

[Sevir]

That demo of Anthem was abreviated and underwhelming... They should have spent less time detail the world and the javelins, and not show concept art and instead just showcased a full gameplay demo...

[indysurfn]

I would tend to agree... But this is EA. So if maybe gameplay is working so bad right now it would scare people into saying Anthem is a dude.

[SegaGamer]

Well done EA, your reputation for being terrible during E3 remains the same as ever.
Anthem looked boring, the presenters were terrible and sounded like they were on drugs, the games on show were your usual boring crap, too much filler (some gamer who makes money playing Madden with a silly belt, he looked ridiculous) Star Wars game talked about vaguely, Battlefield and Battlefront talk, that was dull.

The only things i was interested in was Unravel 2 and Sea of Solitude, but that wasn't enough to keep me interested.
2/10, it was terrible.

[Sevir]

EA's conferences are always boring...

[DVAcme]

That redhead presenter was beyond annoying and embarassing. You can tell she hasn't touched a game controller in her life.

[LoveSpuds]

While the conference was utterly dreadful, Andrea Rene is actually a legit gamer and has been around for years on various game sites and podcasts, she currently co-hosts Kinda Funny and What's Good Gaming.

I would suggest you reign in the stereotyping a little, she does genuinely love videogames, she is doing what she can with some pretty rotten material. Having said that, I do find her a little annoying occasionally on podcasts but generally, she is pretty cool.

[Gh05t]

That whole Anthem panel was basically a waste of time. Almost nothing actually ABOUT the game. It was full of a bunch of non answers until the end then they gave people actual information.

[theshredded]

Renee made me watch some of the conference dammit! But tbh it was decent, I expected much worse. They've got 2 indies and 2 big games as well as sports stuff so that's some progression from EA! Saved the most likely disappointments like NFS and Star Wars for next year

[AnubisG]

This was THE WORST E3 press conference I have ever seen.

[RDF]

1/10 snoozefest

[Segata]

Typical EA. A whole lot of nothing.

[1-pwnsause-1]

I’m glad that I didn’t watch it....

[gangsta_red]

Anthem was really good. Definitely pumped to try it out.

[Sevir]

That Anthem demo was trash... Last year's demo was better...

[Rippcity]

I'm interested. They didn't show the interceptor at all which bummed me out. But what I really wanna know is what the end game looks like. They barely gave us any information which sucked but at least we got a little more gameplay.

[mrdeli]

Shepard is back. I just know it

[LoveSpuds]

Christ almighty, that was a car crash. Not withstanding the terrible pacing and filler, it was the heavy handed earnestness from all involved that was so cringeworthy.

The hosts trying to generate hype and excitement around generally awful game videos made my toes curl. I think that the genuine emotion shown at Ubi's conference last year was well received by the community and EA were trying to engender the same goodwill this year with everyone trying to show emotion when talking about their games but it just came across as scripted and fake.

Then that Madden gamer who looked and behaved like an utter prick in the videos having his arse licked on stage by a proper NFL player made me super irrirated. Finally, the way they delivered new content around Anthem was dreadful, I dont want to hear people being interviewed and surely to god, we have moved on from the dodgy and completely unrealistic interactions of the CoOp-ing players in-game, nobody talks or acts that way when playing a multiplayer game.

[Xavi4K]

4/10

[SuperbVillain]

The battlefield reveal was underwhelming but the gameplay videos being uploaded on YouTube look great

[andibandit]

Cure for insomnia found

[Christopher]

That's been around for years, it's called Everybody's Gone To The Rapture.

[Simmo3D]

Pretty boring conference. Looking forward to more Battlefield V at the Xbox event.

[Smokehouse]

That show sucked. I’m looking forward to seeing more BFV and anthem during E3 though. They barely showed BFV.

[Towers]

So wasn't really fussed for Anthem before, it's still nowhere near my must buy list, but slightly more interested now they've spoken about the importance of story and having a single player shared mode. I hope that's true. Sea of solitude looked really cool and really enjoyed the first unravel so very pleased to have a co-op sequel.
It's good that they're not dropping support for Battlefront 2. I don't own it but good to see they haven't left it high and dry.
Wanted to see Titanfall 3 so badly, bit gutted there wasn't anything but didn't expect it because it would have taken some of the focus away from Anthem.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Honestly, the best thing EA showed was Anthem.
Looking at it in hindsight, it felt a lot like Xenoblade X, which is a complement to its world diversity and color pallet choices.

[acemonkey]

That was lame lol maybe waiting for Xbox or Sony show to start showing off more tittles. The host was hot though