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EA Burying the Past, Creating a New Future

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By Toast09-09-2013

EA has decided that in order for it to stay relevant with the upcoming next generation of consoles and competition with other publishers on different platforms, they have come to the conclusion of developing new IPs instead of focusing on the older ones. Although, it would be misleading to not include that the saying of new IPs doesn't actually mean anything new. What do I mean by saying this? Take in a few words from EA's executive VP, Patrick Söderlund:

"We have six to eight completely new IPs in the works. The day we stop making new IP is when we go onto life support. We are working on a new Mirror's Edge game, and although that's not a new IP, it is a revival done in a new way. We are developing Star Wars: Battlefront, which to us is a new IP, even though it isn't technically."

Yeah, you heard it, it turns out 'new' isn't exactly brand-spanking new according to EA, so who knows what new unique IPs we'll see in the next few years that actually turn out to not even be remotely connected to everything else previously released. It does give an insight though that EA might be into other reboots like Mirror's Edge, although let's not hope for another Syndicate reboot.

Now with creating new IPs or 'almost new' IPs that are somewhat remade, there has to be some sacrifices. In other words, sometimes some things have to die, and EA is previously known to kill off certain franchises and online servers to earlier entries of games on their roosters. BattleForge is unfortunately next on the list for execution on death row for EA and players/fans of the game. So there you have it, to move forward you need to bury some things in the past, tis a sad day, but it isn't surprising knowing their track record. The closing date for BattleForge's servers is the 31st of October 2013, so if you want to try the game before it is shut offline for good, now would be a good time to do so.


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I'll just be blunt.

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I'll just be blunt:

Bullshit.