With the rise of downloadable content for video games, some companies have now started releasing DLC on the same day as the main game is launched. Should this be allowed?
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.
Day one DLC isn't a problem. What IS a problem is disc-locked content. Content that is already on the disc and you have to pay for the 'unlock' code, now that's a real middle finger.
Would them waiting a month to release DLC that isn't on the disc already somehow make that DLC have more merit? Games don't just get finished and released to the public instantly. It can take months for the finished game to be placed on discs and sent out to retailers. During this time if they want to work on some DLC to have released on the time of the street release, I don't see a problem.
Better to release DLC in the height of a games popularity rather than wait months when most people have probably traded their game in at gamestop.
Coincidentally, in response to the articles comment of "If they give away Zaeed for free, then why not Javik" I have to mention that Javik was free for anyone who purchased the Collectors Edition. He also isn't really that big of a deal to have.
Granted, you'd think the last prothean would be a big deal but its mostly just cosmetic. He doesn't change the story in anyway, the only real nice 'touch' the character adds to the game is if you take him with Liara to the Thessia mission. My point is that he's kinda like ME2's 'Arrival' DLC. He doesn't really matter at all. Least he's a biotic, something the games squad is seriously lacking.
Great article. The Video game industry is an Industry, a business. Those funding the development of games are in it for the profit. I doubt many shareholders care about videogames. They care about profits.
Still, DLC on the day of the Game release is pretty insulting. Makes me feel like, "I thought I just bought the whole game?, guess not"
It's way too late to ask this question. Enough people buy it to ensure it's continued existence. The market has spoken. Blame the market, not the devs or publishers, when day one dlc, locked content, online passes, and paying to play online become the norm instead of the exception.
If its free sure.
Disc locked content is the crime.