David Jaffe is Calling All Mistakes
David Jaffe, the man behind revered PlayStation franchises such as Twisted Metal and God of War, is known for making video game classics. So when we first heard that the man behind Kratos and Sweet tooth was creating a cops-and- robbers style, car-combat PlayStation Network game, we were quite skeptical. The fun and addictive Calling All Cars was released on the PlayStation Network in May of 2007 to much acclaim, however, Jaffe doesn’t feel the same as critics.
Jaffe spoke during 2010’s DICE summit, the former God Of War director had some harsh words about his entertaining racer:
I’d call it a mistake, is what I’d call it
We made a rookie mistake as a new studio doing smaller games. We had a casual theme with a hardcore mechanic on a machine people had paid $500 for. Nothing matched up. If I were going to go back and remake Calling All Cars I would’ve skinned it different.
There was this misperception and incorrectness on my part, that you buy this $599 system and bring the same mentality to a $5 game as a $60 game, and that was a mistake
As of January 14th, 2010, Calling All Cars’ servers were shut down forever. I for one, was sad to see it go. Sounds like Jaffe was glad to bury what he calls “a mistake”.
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7 Responses to “David Jaffe is Calling All Mistakes”
uhhhh so does this mean that i wasted my freakin money… i actually liked calling all cars when it first came out
wtf… money wasted… i think im gonna be more hesitant to buy psn games from now on w/ the basis of online support :\ can i get my refund now?
Yeah, thanks a lot Mr Jaffe! I line your pockets with money, and you pull the servers and stick your middle finger up at me in return! I will think very hard about buying one of your products in the future (GOW3 being the exception as your not working on it
).
If you think that stopping people playing online because YOU didn’t like your own game is good customer service, then i don’t want to shop at your store anymore!
makes sense… a 600 machine with a 5 dollar game.
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I can understand what he is talking about but still bad mouthing a product that people did buy and support isn’t good for publicity
downloadable games are a waste of money, I quit buying them and will not buy them again, Unless they are full priced games like burnout paradise, the small arcade games are dumb!
a couple of my friends say that you can still play online multi-player. it just uses one of the consoles as a server instead of having a dedicated server. they say it works just fine. haven’t tried it myself though since i never really liked the game all that much.