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==Development== [[Victory Games]] was founded in late 2010, but wasn't introduced until February, 2011. EA_CIRE, the C&C community manager, had been posting bracket games, polls and created a special space on the official Command & Conquer forums that enabled visitors to suggest their ideas for the next C&C game. In November 2011, rumours surfaced that Victory Games had been placed under BioWare's supervision, and a screenshot leaked, showing a destroyed GLA Technical with its driver in the air. Speculations arose, especially when EA registered new Internet domains on December 2, 2011, mainly using the keywords "Generals" and "[[Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances|Alliances]]". Around that time, a three-second footage video of the new game was featured in the trailer for Spike TV Video Game Awards 2011, which mentioned a new RTS game under development at a BioWare studio. On December 10, during the mentioned event, a full 30-second trailer was released, confirming the title of '''Command & Conquer: Generals 2''' and showing two of three sides - the [[European Union]] and the [[Global Liberation Army]]. Victory Games was confirmed to be a part of the BioWare brand, and was named BioWare Victory. On August 15, 2012, the game was moved to be part of a free to play platform, simply called '''Command & Conquer''' and the single-player campaign was dropped. Nearly the whole community went into a frenzy, criticizing EA about the imbalances of EA's style of free-to-play, and that the game is going to be oriented around multiplayer only. EA_CIRE, the global community manager, later responded to this saying he took the time to read the fan's feedback carefully and it wasn't a surprise for him to see the two major complaints being lack of singleplayer and pay-to-win. He later stated there also has been some misunderstanding out there that he wants to resolve about how most people automatically set free-to-play equal to ''pay-to-win'' and how there will be a singleplayer set as a DLC.<ref name="CIREResponse">{{Cite web|url=http://forums.cncnz.com/topic/17136-more-comments-from-ea-cire-on-the-new-command-conquer/|title=More Comments From EA_CIRE On The New Command & Conquer|last=|first=|date=August 21, 2012|publisher=CNCNZ.com Forums|accessdate=2012-09-16}}</ref> On September 9, 2012, [[Frank Gibeau]] stated that the new game will have a single-player campaign after all due to the harsh community response given to EA with this statement: {{Quote|Our intention with Command & Conquer is to create a triple-A experience, and by that I mean we're using Frostbite tech, we're using very high-end graphics. Does that mean it's not going to have single-player? No, that's something we've obviously heard loud and clear that is important to people. The beauty of free-to-play, is that we can adjust and adapt to what we're hearing as opposed to, "I'm sorry, it's two months from ship and it is what it is." It's a very different model because you don't have to build as much. You build in response to your audience.|Frank Gibeau}} On November 22, 2012, the French fansite CnCSaga.com obtained seven work-in-progress videos of the storyline cinematics, revealing some new characters and units, with some old ones returning, like [[Jarmen Kell]]. There are also indications of an [[APA]] faction (abbreviation later revealed to mean ''Asian-Pacific Alliance''<ref name="Gens2Canard">{{Cite web|url=http://forum.cncsaga.com/topic/7898-cnc-f2p-compte-rendu-de-larticle-canard-pc/|title=CnC F2P : Compte-rendu de l'article Canard PC|last=|first=|date=February 16, 2013|publisher=CnCSaga.com|accessdate=2013-02-16}}</ref>) as the third faction that unites East Asian countries and a possible return of General [[Tao]]. It is assumed that the videos originated from a former Victory Games employee. Shortly thereafter, they were forced to remove the videos by the development team.<ref name="Gens2Leak">{{Cite web|url=http://forums.cncnz.com/topic/17350-generals-2-concept-videos/|title=Generals 2 Concept Videos|last=|first=|date=November 22, 2012|publisher=CNCNZ.com Forums|accessdate=2012-12-05}}</ref> The [[Command & Conquer Community Summit 2012|C&C Community Summit]] took place in Los Angeles in mid-December 2012, where selected community members were given the chance to play the game and share feedback. From leaked footage and information from various fansites, the [[APA]] logo can be seen briefly, the sidebar is (temporarily) replaced with the bottom bar, power plants can only power buildings in their immediate vicinity, credits and Oil are the gatherable resources and construction dozers are confirmed to return.<ref name="Gens2Leak2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33985|title=Generals2 mechanics from the last C&C Community Summit|last=|first=|date=January 6, 2013|publisher=Project Perfect Mod|accessdate=2013-01-08}}</ref>
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