Awww poo! C&C:Tiberium cancelled!

[Dowly]

I was actually waiting for this, I hated C&C:Renegade, but I was hoping this to be what Renegade was supposed to be.

http://planetcnc.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=154098

It is with a heavy heart that I announce an end to all work on Tiberium effective immediately. I've consulted with Nick Earl and Frank Gibeau at the EA Games Label and together we have reached the conclusion that given the time and resources remaining, we will not be able to deliver this product to an appropriate level of quality.

The game had fundamental design challenges from the start. We fought to correct the issues, but we were not successful; the game just isn't coming together well enough to meet our own quality expectations as well as those of our consumers.

Unfortunately, this action will result in several individuals on the team being released. We will make every effort to place affected individuals on projects within the studio – and where that isn't possible, to connect them with opportunities in other teams at EA.

This is the right move for the studio and the company, but it's particularly hard for me because of the impact it will have on our people. Many individuals contributed their time and talents to this game. I spent time in the trenches with them and I was continually impressed by their work.

Moving forward, we need to make sure this doesn't happen again. I believe we are already doing a better job of engineering success in from the start. The quality bar has been raised. Now we need to step up our focus on great design and execution, catching any problems early and correcting them quickly.

We will strive to live up to our values: To make great games, treat people right, keep our commitments, and grow our business.

_______________________
Mike Verdu
EA LA

On a side note: Quite hilarious to see someone from EA speaking of quality standards. :p

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Dowly

On a side note: Quite hilarious to see someone from EA speaking of quality standards.

I would be very worried, and glad that the game has been cancelled if EA was talking about that it wasnt meeting their Quality standards.

HunterICX

[AJ!]

Fantastic

I cant stand over done sci-fi and this game looked like it was taking everything from the tiberium games and making them too futuristic. The titans looked like walking donuts in this game :rotfl:

I prefered it back in tiberium dawn when mostly modern day weapons were used. I mean there was something so much more satisfying about a group of A-10s doing a bombing run then some stupid futuristic hover jets

[Raptor1]

Wow, EA cancelling a game because of quality problems?

That just shattered all my illusions of reality...

[GlobalExplorer]

Quite interesting I must say. How the time have changed since the late 80s. 90% of all games at that time were more or less crap, but that was the norm back then. Today EA prefers to flush millions in the toilet because they can't afford to release something that's too problematic.

Or is there any connection to the Spore fiasco?

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by GlobalExplorer

Quite interesting I must say. How the time have changed since the late 80s. 90% of all games at that time were more or less crap, but that was the norm back then. Today EA prefers to flush millions in the toilet because they can't afford to release something that's too problematic.

Or is there any connection to the Spore fiasco?

EA...flushing something...because it's problematic?

It cannot be!, they are surely doing some of that foul trickery of theirs again to get us to trust them

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

EA...flushing something...because it's problematic?

It cannot be!, they are surely doing some of that foul trickery of theirs again to get us to trust them

[Wolfehunter]

Its a spore...

[Dowly]

It's friday... oh wait.. work tomorrow.. wwwell... only till 1PM! ... oh.. just a sec... and to help my boss and some other twuts empty a huge fridge thingy at 6PM. When the fock I can drink!? ... oh wait... yesterday.. hangover + work = not so nice. :hmm:

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Dowly

It's friday... oh wait.. work tomorrow.. wwwell... only till 1PM! ... oh.. just a sec... and to help my boss and some other twuts empty a huge fridge thingy at 6PM. When the fock I can drink!? ... oh wait... yesterday.. hangover + work = not so nice. :hmm:

Uh oh, Dowly finally lost...whatever it was he might have had...

[Dowly]

I really really really really really cant wait till tomorrow morning! It's 16:30 and I'm åissed drun kalready. Need to get up at 5am. Yaay for me!