Hearing EA officials call the forthcoming game in the Madden series "the next big innovation" year in and year out is nearly cringe worthy - but it appears that for once, the enhancements promised at this year's E3 might prove a true evolution in what has been a relatively static past few years for the series.
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.
Gimmick. Did you see how long it took for the ball to snap after Joe Montana said hike? It took 2 seconds for the ball to snap AFTER Joe said hike. If you yell hike with 2 seconds on the play clock you will get a delay of game penalty because the ball won't snap in time. No one will use this feature. MS closed down Ensemble studios for the core but they invest in Kinect 3rd party gimmicks?
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I read that you can pass to receivers by calling their names with Kinect, LOL. Anyone who plays Madden and know football knows that the windows for open receivers are very small and timing is key. Yelling "Calvin Johnson" and Kinect won't register it until 2 or 3 seconds later will result in an interception every time.
Madden is all about new gimmicks and stale gameplay
I feel like if you wanna yell out commands, just go outside and play for real...
Alot more fun screaming at your friends, rather than virtual players.
Overall, I don't understand why it is a Kinect feature, Socom 2 used this... Hell even Hey You Pikachu had voice commands.
This can be done with any headset, but they decided to make it exclusive to a $150 headset.