Tag: Bad Practice

There’s a news story doing the rounds today, and unless I’ve really missed something, it makes very little sense to me. ActiBlizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been talking about Guitar Hero: World Tour, and more specifically the user-generated songs the game enables dedicated souls to produce.
Apparently they’ve had something like 25,000 uploaded already (though [...]

So it seems recently that a lot of developers are releasing betas for their games. I’d usually have no problem with this if it wasn’t for two things:
1. Making your beta an exclusive incentive
If you really want people to test your game and make sure it works properly, why limit it to a certain group [...]

The classic image of EA is that of the evil publisher who cares for nothing but profit, forcing their developers (swallowed up through brute force and big pockets) to churn out year after year sequels, usually with diminishing returns on the quality front. This year EA have sought to tackle that image, promising to be [...]