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Sega responds to EA's comments. Oh, how a few chosen words can feel like an icy cold sword.

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 9:14 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>"Quite how having 40 years of electronic entertainment experience amounts to 'starting from scratch' escapes us, but at least it shows how the notorious arrogance of EA (predominantly based as it is around the continued and baffling success of lukewarm sports titles, bolstered by bland celebrity endorsements and endless streams of identikit follow-ups) was something the DC was probably better without anyway."

Ouch. I'd have to agree. EA makes great sports games.....and that's about it. Sega is an expert at all trades : sports, RPGs, fighting games, platform, party games, racing(well, I'd have to give the nod to Polyphony or Codemasters)etc etc.....</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 10:04 am
by Stephen_S
<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I couldn't believe my eyes when EA spewed that shit. This from the people who pump out shitty golf, Urban Strike and NASCAR titles at a rate of ten per year.</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 1:40 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Hmm, what did EA say for Sega to respond to them?</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 1:47 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://ps2.ign.com/news/30922.html">htt ... 22.html</a>

Here.</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 1:48 pm
by El Kabong
<div style='font: 10pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>hehe, this is great... all the better for us... let 'em fight it out... hopefully that'll motivate some of the lazy developers out there.</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 1:54 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Oh, this EA guy just sounds scared...and he probably should be. :)</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 1:58 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>He must be from the EA Canada branch, eh?</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 2:03 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>hehehe...</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 4:48 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Daaaaaaamn! It's rare to find a PR rep with some balls. Way to go!</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 6:49 pm
by Insane Cultist Edge
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>The statement was made from someone in their California based office. I suppose if California was a part of Canada, then maybe that would be true.</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 8:20 pm
by Red Eye
<div style='font: 14pt Draconwick, Modern; text-align: left; '>EA doesn't just make sports games. They also made (sponsered) all the C&C games...</div>

PostPosted:Mon Feb 05, 2001 10:55 pm
by Crono
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Truer words could not be spoken. Just proves how ridiculous it is that EA could try and insult Sega on any of those fronts.</div>

Er...

PostPosted:Tue Feb 06, 2001 2:25 am
by ak404
<div style='font: 12pt Verdana, Arial, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 0% 0% 1%; '>I don't think EA makes any sports game, they just publish them.</div>

PostPosted:Tue Feb 06, 2001 9:29 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Like some street thug trash talking Bruce Lee. "Da'boy don'know who he fuckin' wit"</div>

PostPosted:Tue Feb 06, 2001 2:08 pm
by Crono
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, true. It's like the sub-leader of some small gang (EA), acting like he has authority over an established ass-kicker (Sega).</div>

PostPosted:Tue Feb 06, 2001 5:04 pm
by Broken Carcass
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>They don't "make" anything. They just buy out good companies and whore them out.</div>