Do publishers have a responsibility to make sure vanilla servers are available for multiplayer shooters? EA's Custom Server program means the players control the servers. If they're abusing their power, is EA even supporting the game properly anymore?
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
I say renting a server has pretty much ruined the fun i had with multiplayer on consoles. I hate getting in lobbys where the limit is high so it take's hours to finish a game and also people who kick other people just cause they are doing good. I say get rid of all the rented servers and just keep the Official Servers.
It wouldn't surprise me tbh if idiots were abusing them but this is why PC gaming offers a superior mp experience.. many server admins build communities around their servers so they do their best to be the best admins they can be.. you just don't get that community spirit usually on xbox live at least.
rofl well its always been like that on pc, and i couldn't care less if the game didn't even run on console in fact i find it kind of funny.
console gaming = why all games are shit now.
or to be more specific
xbox360 = why all games are shit now, run badly(shitty ports for everything else) have poor graphics with bad interfaces customised for horrible controllers.
I just want official Dice- One game mode, B2k and Classic maps all on one server like they used to have. Tired of 400 ticket rush games. Anytime i try searching for what type of game i want its harder then crap to find. Its hundreads of 2 maps 1000 ticket games or the dice servers are a mixture of game modes and limited on amount of maps. hardcore still lacks big time. Bf3 is a cool game but the whole server stuff sucks. If this is the direction they are going i think i'll pass on anymore bf games.
So much for dedicated servers being "superior" to peer to peer.