Logical Fallacies aside. Every dev studio makes good and bad games.
This is a given, new and old designers stepping in and out and different visions of a game appear. As far as I understand it DN was not a bad game but the hype and expectations killed it before the game even got off the ground. The material and content of the IP was already dated and so none of the gags an jokes didn't even invoke the nostalgia expected. Despite an obvious air of misogyny in gaming culture the game's 'funny' content was a turn off and didn't blanket the glaring sub par FPS gameplay. Not bad but not good.
PGI had a small hand in that game and it was not the dreaded shallow SP. Applying a relationship without a solid basis of proof.
Also. Diablo 3 still is bad. I have the CE edition and I can tell you right now that when it first came out that 50% of the content that would have been in it was ripped out. You could see clear signs of possible alternate levels and the coming expansions of crafting that will come with Reaper of Souls. There were unused doodads of a caravan obviously meant for the enchanting of items AT LAUNCH. It is only NOW that it is being put in.
There are worse companies and developers than PGI. Clearly no here has played Command and Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight. A game so bad it nearly killed off the fanbase. It only was made worse by the addition of a browser game that had no balance and was shallow.
Or we could bring up games like Spore or Firefall. Games that fell short because content was cut or removed. The focus of the games then shifted elsewhere when the designers would start leaving the studio because they saw their dream game being ripped into pieces.
PGI has stated over and over what game they wanted. The process has been slow but so far has hit most marks. They are well on their way to making the game they want and have not cut entire swathes of content just for some $60 single release profit. I have placed faith on PGI to make this game better than it is now. It shakes and quivers but I've never been so disappointed by them as I have been by other studios.
I will never play Spore
I will never play Diablo 3 again
I will never play Elder Scrolls Online again
I will never play Firefall again
I abstain from any Call of Duty game since MW2
I abstain from any Battlefield game since BC2
Oh and Heroes of Might of Magic went down the drain too.
Edited by Tichorius Davion, 27 February 2014 - 07:31 PM.