Okay, bear with me here. I know you just read that headline and you’ve probably already commented that I’m on the Electronic Arts payroll. But let me explain — EA’s policy of greenlighting only games with multiplayer is a good thing, because it will hopefully encourage developers to go elsewhere.
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.
interesting way of looking at it, good article.
Guess I can expect to see some crappy multiplayer games for future(excluding future battlefield games).
I think its more about replay value than multiplayer. If a game has little replay value than the owner will most likely sell it back to the retailer, which causes companies to lose money. They just need to make games from the ground up to be played multiple times at least. Just my opinion.
No.If their plan is to wedge MP into everything whether it needs it or not I am completely against it.
That just sounds like another excuse to jip us on SP so they can work on MP more or give us single player but make some crappy MP to go with it.I could give a $hit how much these FPS sell. Don't had me a short SP and claim 'it's okay the MP is good'. If you are so obsessed with MP then do that alone and charge me half price for the game. I am a little tired of the trend of shoehorning MP into everything or shortening the SP just so you can make the MP better.Instead of constantly creating time wasters and cheap ways to lengthen the game, how about you improve the playability of the game itself? Make a better game that people will come back too instead hooking on MP just to attempt re-playability.
Full games are dead thanks to DLC and now single player games are dead thanks to multiplayer, thats not a good thing at all.