Kickstarter has revolutionized the gaming community, for better or worse. From MMOs to 16 bit RPGs, the crowd-funding source continues to bring a, "Dream it, do it." ideal to the gaming development circuit. What does this mean for the future of games as we know it?
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.
Has it revolutionized gaming? I still await the day that I play a game that has been funded by kickstarter.
Kickstarter is not revolutionizing gaming by any stretch. If anything Kickstarter is a step backwards and is completely taking advantage of gamers dollars.
Before Kickstarter developers funded all the risk, and their success was based 100% on how good the game they made was. NOW, when we fund a kickstarter it is us gamers who are taking on 100% of the risk. Our money, not theirs is being used to make a game that we have ZERO idea if its good or utter crap. We essentially are giving these people a 0% financed loan for promise of a game in return.
I implore people to stop doing the kickstarters... this is a VERY bad business model for the consumer.
Yes, that's quite true. There is no quality scale, and that's not good. I totally agree that there should be and that people should be held accountable. At the same time, though--such is the nature of crowdfunding, especially with games. Until someone implements a quality review board or a progress check, that's a risk that those who do donate choose to take.