It is no secret that the real news about games these days is what they are doing to wrong us as gamers. Recently I got a chance to check out Visceral Games’ latest chapter in the Dead Space franchise. I loved the creepy snow vibe, and somehow after three iterations it still makes me jump from time to time. I will be reviewing the game in the coming weeks, and am pretty excited about seeing where it goes.
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.
*Looks at the two news below this*
Oh but when Borderlands does similar stuff its ok? OOOH cause borderlands does it right.. and its not exactly micro-transactions, and you can live with out it.
Well you know what? You can live with out "micro-transactions" in DS3 as well, this whole gen is a mess, I can't understand how can people accept being scammed by DLC and they are happy with it.
I am actually ok with this, I know publishers need to make money and this helps them out as well as people WHO DONT WANT TO PLAY THE GAME for themselves. It allows the pub to make money and for the "can't be bothered to play this game and unlock stuff myself" gamer to get what they want without playing.
BUT, if they started charging for stuff that you can't get by just playing the game.... then that SUCKS
It'll spread to other studios just like dlc/online passes
Seeing moves like this are making the next generation look even more unappealing.
NOBODY IS MAKING YOU BUY THE STUFF!!!
Let's be clear you can still get these items the old school way by playing. Not every gamer has tons of time on their hands so being able to pay to speed up the process should be an option.
Micro transactions are only bad when you can't earn the items!