Murphy you must be delusional, cause in that quote, I don't mention anything about publishers. So your equation (actually an inequaction) is absolute incoherence.
No you don't mention publishers and that's the problem. Developers don't set their own deadlines (some mod teams set their own release dates though, because they think they have to) or their budget. Both is set by the publisher.
There are some exceptions like some developers who don't have a publisher yet and have to fund their own game before getting one (like Tripwire with RO:O if I am not mistaken), but well, those are the exception.
You like to demand innovation, I'd love to see how many great innovations you can come up with. It's not as easy as bickering.
Slightly delusional, are we? I never demanded innovation.
For my own innovations please refer to the forum search and read my suggestions topics (the ones with the typos in the title, lol) and the numerous suggestion threads I helped to derail by offering alternative suggestions... I also wrote a fantasy novel parody of 70-80 pages and created my own cover for it (it's in German. You want to you read it? PM me)... I don't need to prove my creativity on a forum. What am I doing here...?
Now please point me to a written source were you got the idea that someone has to be able to do something better in order to critizise it!
I can sue pharma companies if I got a third eye due to their medicine although that was NOT the reason I baught it. Imagine their lawyer to say: "Well, can you make a better one? No? Then shut up." If that ever happens to you be sure to youtube it.
If EA wants to milk their franchise, they can
Yes!
, and should
No.
, it's ****ing good business.
Yes!
You really think they should stop selling games that make them money?
No.
people buy them because they want to, or because the advertising worked,
No. People want to buy them because advertising worked.
Personal question:
Do you like being lied to?
When I read some descriptions of EA games and then I put them in to play them I feel like being tricked by a transsexual...
What I hate about EA isn't that they got more money than me.
What I hate is how they treat customers who might happen to need more than a transaction of money towards EA in return for a game.
I also hate how they treat the developers studios they swallow. Often games are released without a proper beta testing because the publisher wants the income in this or that quarter. Especially a giant like EA has no reason to do that! A smaller publisher, struggling for survival might have to be forced to do such unfortunate acts, but it doesn't matter for EA if they get their money now or a few weeks later, but why would they care? Their hype-machinery and the famous title of the game ensure loads of sales anyway. If it's buggy crap, who cares?
And I absolutely hate being bombarded with not-so-subtle Ads in my games when I still had to pay full-prize for a game that did definately NOT need the Ads to be funded.
Most of these problems aren't even EA specific (!), but EA provides such a great enemy that I am tempted to suggest it as a new antagonist for the James Bond movies, now that the Russians aren't considered enemies anymore.
and here you are sitting on your high horse calling people dumb for buying a product they probably enjoy.
I think I should stick you into a Cold-Delusion-Reactor and see if I get any usable output...
Where did I call people dumb for buying a product they probably enjoy?