First Strike Visits DICE

[Spawndemon]

The First Strike mod team has posted up a new article today that discusses their trip to DICE. Check it out:

Hey all! A few of us from the First Strike Mod recently had an opportunity to go to DICE HQ in Stockholm, Sweden to show them our work. I would like to say thanks to DICE for making it possible and thanks to my guys for their hard work in getting us there!

Below is a summary of the trip from each team members’ perspective. I didn’t think it would be fair to edit their text as this was their experience and they should talk about it as they choose. My experience was just like theirs so I thought I would give everyone the opportunity to read about this great experience if you so desire.

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To read the team's summaries of their trip be sure to visit here.

[AllFoamNoBeer]

Hard work always pays off, my mother always used to say that.

Guess it does.

[Namakan]

wow....cool stuff

[mybulleturface]

i would b**th to them about the patch.

[Yukiism]

I would beat them up because they won't bring out a decent editor.

[HTE1]

Hard work always pays off, my mother always used to say that.

Guess it does.

qft

/goes back to aimless web surfing at work.

In all seriousness it's good to see a bit of industry recognition for the FS fellas.
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[Salad Snake]

Hell I'm not even a star wars fan and I think the mods awesome, almost like a whole new game. When it's done, I bet it would stand fairly well as a product by itself.

[[FSDev]Preacher]

It was fun, (other than swedens lack of normal food, hey im a geordie what do you expect!)

It was also realy cool meeting people i'e been speaking to nearly everyday for like 4 years (since galactic Conquest), I must say i picked the wrong people to stand next to in that picture lol.

FS i know is a love hate thing at the moment due to bugs, and gameplay significantly different to what everyones used to, but we have alot more cool stuff planned and hope you guys are around long enough to try it out ( i know many awesome games are coming out in the coming months) but hopefully you'll be around to give us aother try :)

thank you for the kind words and i shall see you all on the battlefield! < what a cliched line lol

[tonks950]

wow you guys are so lucky, that's great.

I almost feel sorry for you guys, you are putting in all this hard work and people seem to be slowly moving away from 2142 to bigger and better things like you mentioned.

[iQue]

I so have to get there too.

DICE, if you see a guy screaming something outside your headquarters it's me

[[GCA]Tim270]

Good stuff.

[|D|-Max]

you guys are so lucky


and can a admin remove the immature posts.

[[3MD]D|Pvt.Jey]

lolz

The events actually played out like this;

On arriving at DICE HQ in Stockholm the fear really started to kick in, knowing the fate of the entire mod community depended on us being successful in our mission. It was meant to be a simple in out job, our mission “Infiltrate DICE HQ, Steel the Bf2142 SDK and assassinate all lead Devs and EA personnel on sight." Things are never as easy as they seem.

Woodrow gave me a fearful look as we approached the door; I hadn’t noticed the large EA logo at the time branded across a five foot swastika. I knew something was wrong but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. I cocked my rifle and reached for the door only to be startled as the door mysteriously opened. An intense light shone upon us, completely throwing us off guard, a soothing young woman’s voice told us to come in. As our eyes adjusted to the intense light it became apparent that all the walls were made from solid gold and all the details and furnishing from platinum. The lady who told us to come in appeared in front of us, wearing as silver thong and gold nipple tassels, this divine beauty must have been some sort of angel. It was at that moment we had our first casually, Woody tapped me on the shoulder and told me that Ulph was down. I couldn’t care less that my modding comrade was having a heart attack as I was totally transfixed by this stunning Swedish woman.

The lady did not seem phased by the fact that I had a loaded assault rifle in my hand; I think it may have even turned her on. She led us down a hall to the centre of the building. I gasped as I entered upon seeing the most incredible sceptical ever. The main area was a giant skate park; everyone was going around on their skate boards made of fibre glass and $50 bills.

We got greeted by the CEO of DICE, he came over to give us a personal tour around the design studios. The first place he took us too was the testing labs; there were hundred of computers packed out with nerds playing Battlefield 3!! This was quite an amazing spectacle watching as the gamers were gradually getting pulled away by men in white coats. They couldn’t stop saying “not enough levels you cheep bastards” The door would close, a load bang and then silence followed by a trickle of blood under the door.

The next room we went into was an interesting site, Punkbuster were there but sat next to them was the president of the *** hackers group. I wasn’t sure what to make of it until it hit me. DICE don’t care about *** hackers because it makes them more money, Punkbuster bans the hackers who have been promised punkbuster proof hacks then the only way they can play the game again is to buy another copy! So does DICE or EA own that hacking group I wonder?

Then next office we went into was an idea storming room, it was amazing. The brains behind DICE were sat in Hot tubs drinking Don Perignon Champaign while the gorgeous naked blond girls wrote down their ideas on massive white boards. On the board at the time was an interesting read stating:
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How to maximise profits

Stage 1 Annihilate all competition – Stop it at its source; the mod community. If we produce the most popular game, but then give them no way to expand on it and no reason for the public to want to play of mods (RANK SYSTEM). We will destroy the community and prevent any future game designers.

Stage 2 Produce games as fast as possible. We must have a major release every year, it doesn’t matter if we release a game that only half done, and not fully tested. We can patch it after we have taken the users money, and we can do it really slowly to keep them playing the games in hope that a fix will be coming soon.

Stage 3 Produce booster packs. Instead of adding new content in patches we will sell small add-ons. Idea – how about we make booster booster packs we could sell new weapons and further exploit our fans.

Stage 5 we will make people pay to download games they already have bought before $6 for every time they download the game.
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It sure was an insight into the gaming industry getting to see the DICE HQ. However I can’t help but think I forgot to do something while I was in there.
Anyways I just want to say thank you DICE / EA for wonderful day. We had a really good time I learnt a lot about the business world.

Thank you also for the cake and the briefcase full of money, your secrets are safe with me ;-)

Firststrike Dev team, please note im only teasing, Im glad you had fun guys. I hope you saw some signs of improvment for the future of DICE.

[GrossKopf]

Jey - I think you should send that to the CEO of Dice. It's 100&#37; truth!

BTW - Instead of actually going inside, you should have just lit a bag of poo on fire on their doorstep and then ran away. That would have gotten them good!

[Salad Snake]

What the hell is it with some people here and lighting bags of their own crap?

That's the wierdest sh*t I ever heard of. (pun intended )