EA fucking over OWI with MO was the worst thing to happen to them in my opinion. i was so looking forward to that game. they had so much planned for it and i still believe it would have blown then-current games out of the water in terms of world-building and evolution of environments/characters etc. for example i'm pretty sure they were going to include seasons, unless i'm getting mixed up with Hand of Odd, but obviously that never happened. and i think the gameplay was going to be more open-world too, less on-the-rails than it turned out to be.
i understand there's always big ideas for games and usually you end up with a more watered-down version of what was originally envisioned due to time constraints, hardware limitations and obviously money, but EA really did fuck over OWI with MO. if i remember right OWI had to pretty much start again from scratch when they joined up with EA, so with even less time to get it finished than they had before we only got half a game. and to me, as someone who was looking forward to all the crazy 'advanced' (at the time) shit it was going to include, it really did show. i could tell it wasn't what was originally planned. the game felt empty to me.
as for the SW pc port being 'unplayable', i've actually started playing that game again recently and i've had no issues so far. i know about the giant sleg issue (lol) and i know there's one problem that can occur where suddenly you can't move stranger any more, but that's fixed by enabling V-sync or something from the main menu. or maybe disabling it, i'm not sure can't remember.
long story short EA can fuck off
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