EA can have the properties, just leave the developers. EA has a shitty reputation when it comes to buying studios by using them up and tossing them aside.
"Bayonetta is a brand that we want to see become stronger, reaching the hands of more and more gamers..."
Platinum CEO Tatsuya Minami.
If that is truly the case, why bring the game to a system that isn't even out yet, doesn't have a built in fanbase, and won't be able to reach as many people as you would if you released it on the systems that the first title was on? Answer me that Platinum.
Well, its pretty obvious when you look at the writing on the wall. Sega could have funded the sequel, but instead decided on restructuring and focusing their energies towards a few core franchises like sonic, PSO, total war etc that make them good money. This choice leaves the games in the publishing deal with Platinum out in the cold simply because those titles lack the sales legs of those others listed above. The other console manufacturers at that point could have stepped in and offered to publish or fund the game but they didn't either because of their own reasons. My guess with MS, just not caring simply because they have a laser-like focus of dominating the living room space by bloating XBL with hundreds of features that have nothing to do with gaming itself. Sony probably can't because they're just struggling to market their own handheld and can't seem to do simple things like actually put up tv ads that actually show the people what games it has and whatnot. Nintendo, who already has them working on one game, wants to bring in more third party support and core game titles to their system as they stated to people who were questioning if the Wii U would just have another deluge of party games. Nintendo was in the right place at the right time and Platinum wanted the game made and would have been stupid to turn down the opportunity.
To put it simply, more people ahead of nintendo had the opportunity to fund/publish the game, didnt want to, nintendo did, end of story.
When that network no longer served the niche it originally did and just threw on crap like COPS and cheaters it was doomed to die the slow and miserable death it did. ZDtv might not have had millions of viewers, but it had original programming that served an audience no other network did. The executives who thought that putting on old programming from what i'd call "idiot tv" that could have been seen on 20 other network would get people to watch deserve to never work in those positions again.
Think all that statement really means, if you get banned or whatever happens to your system, or your money just goes up in smoke trying to buy AC, don't waste time calling us for support about it if you're not connecting with a JP address.
Played it, enjoyed it far more than Skyrim due to fact that Im not in it so much for the story or the size of the world, but the combat. Also I like how it rewarded me for going into dangerous areas with strong enemies to get loot that would usually be worth the risk. The only risk I felt when playing skyrim was to run into something that just so happens to play against my racial weaknesses and drops me. I succeed in that situation and there is basically no reward. Felt like this was the other half of what skyrim was missing and skyrim was the other half of what dragons dogma was missing.
Kind of a dick move for EA to basically say," even though you supported and bought products from this franchise over the years, to play the beta of its next iteration, we want you to spend $60 on a game that's unrelated to that franchise so you can get into the beta of the franchise you actually want to play." Not that EA is exclusively doing this, this has been done for years with demos/betas with other publishers, I just personally dislike this practice.
I have serious doubts that the handful of people who buy this game for this platform would care in the slightest about the endings. EA should comment on whether the single player DLC will be included or not.
Geez, you'd think people would find something better to do with their time than screw around with everyone else's game experience. If anything I hope Sega wakes up from this and use better security measures for this game and all others in the future. Banning people is fine, but can only happen after the fact when the damage is done. Prevention is far more important in this case than punishment.
All that malicious hacking and NOL'ing stuff just made everyone paranoid who wanted to play the game legit and the only way to play in peace was to lock all of your games. The ability to just join in on a game in progress was just lost because of a-holes. You'd have ppl who would specifically join games just to see what weapon you had and they wanted it, proceed to PK you, and steal your weapon and mst and then pipe out and leave the lobby and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it. Then if you wander into the wrong lobby, you have guys who spam up the screen with gigantic text boxes which can make it impossible to see where the lobby counter is so you can escape from the room. Then losing a lvl 100+ character to NOL'ing just made me quit playing altogether. Took 100+ hours to get to that level, did not want to do it again since all of my friends either still had super high level characters, or they lost theirs too due to other bs. Why should anyone pay those monthly fees to play a game that is full of people who freely ruin the game for everyone who plays the game without hacking it? Hope that hacking BS stays dead and buried where it belongs, and I can happily piss on its grave.
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