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Funny, in the first illustration in the article the Ripper looks like a Bloodborne character... top hat and sword cane.

Now this was an EA project, so it would have been design-by-commitee visceral horror with in app purchases. I don't think we're missing anything here.

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During the time period in the article EA advocated design via the rule of three: 1/3 proven, 1/3 improved, 1/3 new. They were just getting their feet wet in the f2p space with some Facebook and mobile game acquisitions and wouldn't readily apply those techniques to console games for a few more years.

Did you read the article at all?

Until I figured out it's talking about an EA project. Sorry, it stopped being worth my attention after that. No matter how old the project is.

If you actually bothered to read it you would see that it was about the time BEFORE all that was there. The article went into the fact that during the games development is windy company had decided that all games must have multiplayer to prevent people from immediately selling the game after beating it.

Basically nothing you complained about applied to this game.

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