Dovetail Games Bought By Focus Entertainment

EA: £100 per dlc please!

 

An EA train sim where you only get the default liveries for each locomotive and rolling stock, and you have to gamble on loot boxes to try and get special or alternative ones thru loot boxes that you can only buy with in game currency that you can only buy or by grinding out a ton of hours doing the same route over and over again.

 

Joke's worn off now.

Didn't realise previous versions were taken down with FM. I just use Game Pass for it as of now, just buying FIFA instead (no chance am I buying both, not in this economy!).
Definitely worth picking up in a sale, though.

 

Ok, just did it on the off chance someone found it funny that's all

 

I’m actually in division 3, but okay mate. All I’m gonna say is believe what you believe, but there’s substantial proof to show EA scripts online modes as well

 

And yet when EA were about to be taken to court (yes, court) they managed to prove that the game isn't rigged - providing technical details in doing so - and had the lawsuit stopped.
https://www.eurogamer.net/fifa-scri...mation-and-access-to-speak-with-our-engineers

So, yeah. Wrong answer, try again.

 

I mean Championship Manager pretty much died after the original people started making Football Manager .

As for Fifa though (most recent via games pass ) - I've pretty much played every version since Fifa International Soccer, but haven't seen the scripting that people keep saying - I mean of course i get frustrated when I have a game where i have 50 shots on target, score one then in the 90th minute the AI get's it's only shot on goal and scores!

 

Game publisher says something negative isn't in the game.

Just play career mode on a difficulty higher than semi pro. Win a few games and see how you player with a short pass stat of 96 can't pass 5 feet to a teammate...

 

They proved it wasn't in Online and that I believe. They rely on people buying better players and scripting would harm that as people won't pay for unfairness in general.

Career mode has scripting, they haven't disproved it. Next you'll say mario kart doesn't have rubber banding because Nintendo don't outright disclaim it

 

Career Mode is an offline mode, that is what the grand total of nobody cares about when it comes to scripting.

 

Career mode is more played than you think lol

 

I’d like to remind everyone that DTG have not been bought by EA, so no worries there.

 

Horn DLC available for 500 action points per toot.

Scenario requires frequent use of the horn.

Repeat ad nauseam.

 

Back in the day when the Amiga was king we had great software houses like Bullfrog who released Populous, Syndicate and Syndicate Wars. We also had Westwood studios releasing Dune and the Command & Conquer series. EA bought and butchered them all. They'll do the same to Codemasters which they acquired last year. I haven't bought this years F1 game because EA have their grubby lil hands all over the licence again.

Hentis

 

Not to mention Digital Integration (F16 Combat Pilot and Tornado) and the legendary Microprose!

 

Microprose was bought by Spectrum Holobyte in 93, then from Hasbro in 98 and in 2001 from Infogrames, which marked the end of Microprose. Nothing to do with EA. Digital Integration was also never related to EA.

 

I was more referring to great software houses in general. Both were the king of flight simulation, though in their earlier days EA released the Janes titles my favourite being Longbow 2 which brought my Voodoo graphics card to life!

 

Many fond memories of Bullfrog games on PC (mostly Dungeon Keeper and Hi-Octane though), and Westwood (Dune II, C&C). Even early Electronic Arts (I treat them as different to EA) was solid (the original Need For Speed) and the "golden age" of EA Sports (early-mid 00s, so NBA Street 2, SSX Tricky/SSX3, Tiger Woods, FIFA 2002 etc)

 

Imagine where we would of been if EA bought Kuju back in the day, if you remember, EA did publish Rail Simulator....

 

Coming from EA, I'm surprised that the headlight & ditchlight sockets don't have neon lights in them

 

Microprose put out some pretty good stuff, including a terrific RPG set in medieval Germany called Darklands. But hoo boy, talk about a company that embodied the release now/patch later mentality to a fault.

 

Microprose is still going

 

"Light is visible. Next task."

 

It was that weird time in EAs life where they did some interesting things, like the EA UK studio making the PS3 port of Vavles The Orange Box.

 

Ahhhhhh ----- so that's where the new free French route came from. Thanks! I've enjoyed driving it, even though it's 99% passenger-based.

 

Played Darklands a lot myself, but probably the best thing to come out of Microprose was Sid Meier and the juggernaut that was Civilisation (along with the seriously under-rated Colonisation, and who can forget Pirates!). If I had to narrow down my childhood gaming experience to just one developer it would be Lucasarts, but Sid Meier would be an extremely close second.

 

Have loved every version of Civilization.
Waaaaay back in 1992 I had 8 days between my fourth and fifth exams in university. We spent 8 days playing the original Civilization, dawn to dusk. Incredible.

 

I totally forgot Sid Meier and Civilization came out of Microprose. My dad loves the Sim City/Civilization genre, but that kind of micromanagement and trial-and-error strategy game drives me batty.

 

I lost track with the series after about ~IV, CivII and Colonisation were the major ones along with Alpha Centuari (the spiritual successor to CivII that Sid Meier made after he left Microprose)

 

Now with focus games buying DTG do they work with DTG or just buying them.

 

According to what DTG has said, they have been left alone. Quite sad as they could use the help.

 

Standard PR whenever a company is acquired. Who knows what goes on behind the scenes.

 

Probably the acquisition could have forced TSW4 a year early… never know

 

That's possible. Focus may want original content with their logo on it. Hopefully when the next version comes out Focus will perhaps add additional support to improve the game. For the time being for me it's all a wait and see. I'm no longer on a buy, wait, and hope cycle

 

Does seem suspicious that they release a new game earlier than usual after being acquired doesn't it.

 

On the other hand, I suspect TSW4 was probably in the works by the time Focus bought DTG, and considering TSW3 probably had a one-year dev cycle as well I don't think Focus had much to do with TSW4. But I suspect they will be the ones making the decision over whether to release a TSW5 next year.

 

Has Focus Entertainment made any statements as to what direction and focus they will bring the games of DTG?

 

I see what you did there.

 

Maybe next year we'll start seeing some of that Focus hocus pocus.

 

No and I doubt Focus will ever get involved with TSW as people are hoping.

 

Does their office really smell that bad?

 

I mean it is in Chatham...

 

Fantastic riff by the great Jan Akkerman (was used in a Nike commercial a few years ago). Off-topic, but as there is so many false tabs around here's my version which should be correct in case you play the guitar (figure out timings yourself ) Basically the a unison, then 4 minor7/major7s, the Hendrix chord, second round is straight chords instead of 7s.

Code:

  |   (2x)     |
E -x-------------7---8-------------------------------7---8---5---7---7-------------------------------0-
B -x-------------8--10---8---6---8-------------------8--10---7---7---9-------------------------------8-
G -x-------------7---9---9---7---7-------------------9--10---7---8---9-------------------------------7-
D -5h7-7-7-7-7---9--10---9---7---6-----5h7-7-7-7-7---9--10---7---9---9-------5---7-------7--10--12---6-
A -0---0-0-0-0---7---8-----------7-----0---0-0-0-0---7---8---5---9---7---7---3---5-------5---8--10---7-
E -x---------------------8---6-----------------------------------7-------5-----------------------------

Slower album version (yes I am obsessed with that riff - the original version was too long for airplay on US radio stations, so they just played it faster)


Edit: Mistake in the tab opening corrected, happens when you tab from memory

 

Is paul jackson still working for dtg?

 

He and the other remaining co-founder resigned as directors the day the Focus sale was officially announced. Don't know if that means they've left the company entirely, or if one or both have stayed on in an advisory position to help with the assimilation.

 

Jon Rissik is CEO, Jackson has retired. Probably gone fishing

 

And it will depend on TSW4's sales figures so get ready for a ride I would say.

 

Again, they have almost no interaction with Saber's Snowrunner, other than having their name on the loading screen, so I doubt DTG will have any more interaction
For Focus, it's just another asset to their financial structure

 

There must be some really successful companies represented here with all the business experts in the Forum