Why didn't EA and Bioware bring the original Mass Effect to eager PS3 consumers sooner? If the companies like money, which they clearly do, then why wouldn't they release Mass Effect on the PS3 in advance of the Mass Effect 3 release in March? We speculate the answers.
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.
Because they were waiting for the piles of money to get smaller before they looked for another source to get more money from. Ride the Microsoft ship until it stops then jump on to the Sony ship and ride it the rest of the way, then jump on the Wii U ship as they pass it.
Cmon now we were lucky to get part 2 on ps3 when we did and now were lucky to get part 1 can we not complain about it these are great games and if you don't want them don't get them
They thought they could just pretend it didn't matter and sell 2/3 of a trilogy to unsuspecting gamers.
Because of the same scattered brained production values and choices which lead to the plot divergence from ME1, put style over substance, and overall ruined ME3. Of which the ending was the most obvious sign.
EA wasn't the publisher of Mass Effect - Microsoft Game Studios was. With that in mind, its actually pretty amazing that we're seeing it on Playstation 3 at all. This is a good thing.