OT: EA has bad quarter

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050504.gteamay5/BNStory/AtPlay/ Is anyone really suprised? For one, Nascar SimRacing isn't half of what was promised. -Larry

In article <no9ee.455$2J6.348@lakeread06>, [email hidden] says...

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> http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050504.gteamay5/BNStory/AtPlay/ > > Is anyone really suprised? > > For one, Nascar SimRacing isn't half of what was promised. > > -Larry > > >

I remember back in the day, seeing that big EA striped flashing logo on my Commodore 64 (and then Amiga 500) as a game loaded up, and getting all excited because I knew I was in for a good fun inventive game. These days it is all hate for the Electronic Artists. Hate that is almost certainly deserved. But I still have a soft spot in my heart for them. MRSisson -- LOAD "GPL",8 SEARCHING FOR GPL LOADING READY. RUN

>"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote > Is anyone really suprised? > > For one, Nascar SimRacing isn't half of what was promised. NSR is an absolute grain of sand in EA's entire empire. They have sold more copies of a single Sims expansion pack than their entire simracing catalogue since the last decade I could bet on that. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

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> >"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote >> Is anyone really suprised? >> >> For one, Nascar SimRacing isn't half of what was promised. > > > NSR is an absolute grain of sand in EA's entire empire. > > > They have sold more copies of a single Sims expansion pack than their > entire simracing catalogue since the last decade I could bet on that.

And the unbelievable success of the NFSU series has sold 100times more copies than NSR too. Ed

This we can tell :) -Larry "ymenard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:n%eee.13098$[email hidden]...

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> >"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote >> Is anyone really suprised? >> >> For one, Nascar SimRacing isn't half of what was promised. > > > NSR is an absolute grain of sand in EA's entire empire.

Seeing that they basically took out the competition for Madden by literally getting a monopoly on the NFL and NFL Players definitely took a huge chunk out of their profits. I actually found ESPN more fun than Madden, but that's the way it goes. As we saw with Sony getting exclusive rights to Formula One racing games didn't mean that there was going to be any good F1 racing sims. So, seeing that EA took the NFL doesn't mean that those games are going to be any good. Madden had its day, but now it's just the same ol' rehash with different players...BORING. "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:no9ee.455$2J6.348@lakeread06...

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> http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050504.gteamay5/BNStory/AtPlay/ > > Is anyone really suprised? > > For one, Nascar SimRacing isn't half of what was promised. > > -Larry >

"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:no9ee.455$2J6.348@lakeread06...

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> http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050504.gteamay5/BNStory/AtPlay/ > > Is anyone really suprised? > > For one, Nascar SimRacing isn't half of what was promised. > > -Larry

Didnt even try this sim. Was it even remotely close to feeling like one or did it have that "too arcady" feel? > >

Somewhere deep down inside the NSR code is a decent sim just waiting to be unlocked. Problem is EA has the key and they likely will never use it. Mitch "LuvrSmel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > Didnt even try this sim. Was it even remotely close to feeling like one or > did it have that "too arcady" feel? > >> >> > >

I can agree with this :) I actually _want_ to like the EA Nascar Sim now, but it's just not there for me. It's better in it's own ways, but the downsides are just too huge. -Larry "Mitch_A" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:wxMee.1742$[email hidden]...

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> Somewhere deep down inside the NSR code is a decent sim just waiting to be > unlocked. Problem is EA has the key and they likely will never use it. > > Mitch > > > "LuvrSmel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > Didnt even try this sim. Was > it even remotely close to feeling like one or >> did it have that "too arcady" feel? >> >>> >>> >> >> > >