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DICE Hires creator of BF2 Sandbox Mod

Looks like DICE have hired the man behind the Battlefield 2 sandbox mod. Could that mean that they are working on a Battlefield 3 sandbox editor instead of mod tools?

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Dart894699d ago

How do pc players feel about this??

Christopher4699d ago (Edited 4699d ago )

Would be a bit funny to see this end up being true.

Yesterday: "No BF3! Go to hell EA!"

Tomorrow: "Awesome! I love you EA! All games should have this!"

@Agent-86: That's how much a mod starts and ends. You can get up to 9 bubbles, which is what I had prior to being given the pleasure of moderating here.

Agent-864699d ago

Holy crap, 10 bubbles?! Is that what N4G Moderators start with?

evrfighter4699d ago

see what I mean

how is the talent gonna be found when mod tools are being snubbed

Gazondaily4699d ago

You managed to get 9 bubbles?

I can't comprehend the mental gymnastics involved in successfully achieving that. And here I am struggling to get 4!

On a site where everything is so polarized between fanboys, that really is an achievement.

Stadler4699d ago

I personally would like to find out what this guys position is at DICE. It would be awesome if a Sandbox mod was coming out

bobrea4699d ago

It could just mean they hired an exceptional talent for their development team... There doesn't have to be a hidden meaning in everything.

GrumpyVeteran4699d ago

Would be awesome if mod tools were made in general.

Tyre4699d ago

Keep on hyping Onlive and streaming games and mod tools/custom hardware will be gone for the users after all companies have servers running all the games and all the user will be left with is an interface to acces the streamed games=>no more custom building PC rigs/no more hardware parts/no more self-taught talents/no more fresh ideas....the end. Promote physical dedicated hardware/physical ownership/offline usable hardware instead of the return to 70ies like mainframes and terminals....

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There are no "thoughtful" ads in video games, EA

There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.

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northpaws13h ago

I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.

But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.

Hofstaderman12h ago

EA can thoughtfully eff themselves.

Makersbreath212h ago

EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.

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Report: Sexual Misconduct Investigation Conducted at EA, Suspects Named and What They Did Revealed

EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.

isarai6d ago

Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.

Cacabunga5d ago

I wonder if it will be censored with some in game ads.

MrBaskerville3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.

Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.

InUrFoxHole2d ago

Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.

XiNatsuDragnel5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.

MrBaskerville3d ago

Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.

Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.

ravens525d ago

What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.

Extermin8or3_5d ago

I mean part of the issue is that things transpired outside of work....

MrBaskerville3d ago

That's the thing he mentioned about not being a creep at all.

KwietStorm_BLM5d ago

You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.

mudakoshaka5d ago

Nerds think they are Gods when they are making video games.

NotoriousWhiz5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."

Yep, EA is disgusting.

Extermin8or3_5d ago

I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.

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EA to Spend Billions Boosting Share Prices After Mass Layoffs

EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.

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Yi-Long9d ago

Well, anything to make those shareholders happy, I guess. They're all that matters in this industry nowadays.

badboyz099d ago (Edited 9d ago )

EA stocks haven't been profitable in over 5yrs. They better hope Take-two don't get the FIFA license lol.