EA Sports Does It Again...

[Goldash]

The Xbox One reveal was a clusterfuck of epic proportions, but EA's second CGI teaser was the proverbial icing on the cake and cherry on top. An EA rep confirmed the trailer indeed was CGI, even going as far to say "the game looks better than this in motion!" You be the judge:



If that looks familiar, EA did the SAME EXACT THING in 2005 before the launch of the 360:



The sports gaming community smartened up considerably since those days, and the general consensus is...what else? A ton of anti-EA backlash. Don't be surprised if the final versions of these games look considerably worse --- and even so, how does this actually improve EA's standing as the so-called "Worst Company in America?" A better PR move would have been a trailer captured from real-time gameplay.

As the old saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me."

[The Lord of Awesome]

So it wasn't blatenly obvious? Cause it looked blatenly obvious that it was pre rendered

[Goldash]

Oh yeah, I thought that instantly. But there's a hell of a lot of people who will see that and actually believe it. That's why all this CGI stuff is bad for the industry because people won't do actual research and then complain that it looked nothing like it did in the trailers.

The same thing happened with Madden 06 and the second video I posted above. Granted, people are a lot more savvy now that EA's a repeat offender to this sort of thing, but I can imagine some kid who doesn't know any better crying when he plugs in the game at home because it looked nothing like the "awesome commercials".

I mean that's what I think happened with Mists of Pandaria, and you know how amazingly different that game looks in comparison to its CGI-happy commercial.