Electronic Arts provided distribution support for APB, whose bankrupt studio is being sold off; today a senior EA executive said the game’s poor reviews were somewhat predicted internally and suggested to Realtime Worlds. https://kotaku.com/apbs-studio-is-nearly-doa-5615250 “We did suggest that where it landed from a review score standpoint was where we thought it was going to land from a review score standpoint,” David DeMartini, the head of EA Partners, told GamesIndustry.biz.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); “We were having a lot of discussions with them about where we thought the title was, at least advising them so that they could make a decision,” he added. “I imagine they think H25 they could have done some things differently at this point, but hindsight’s always 20-20.” APB is currently a 58 on Metacritic, 61 on GameRankings, so that “suggestion” sounds more like a vote of no-confidence. DeMartini expressed sympathy for Realtime Worlds, which this week entered administration – the U.K. analogue to bankruptcy reorganization in the U.S. “I feel bad for David [Jones, the Realtime Worlds CEO], I feel bad for everybody on that team,” he said. “It’s just sad all the way around. It’s not great h25 com สล็อต​ for the industry either because the team gets tarnished, the game gets tarnished, customers h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ​ aren’t exactly delighted with the experience that they got.” EA of course is publishing BioWare’s upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, but DeMartini is confident that game will be a success. Still “It’s a really hard category to make a game. You spend tens of millions of dollars and that’s a lot of a risk.” EA Anticipated APB’s Review Scores [GamesIndustry.biz]