In the wake of comments made regarding the ubiquity of microtransactions in future EA titles, CFO Blake Jorgensen has rolled back to clarify that, in fact, not every upcoming EA game will offer them.
Speaking at the Wedbush Technology Conference in New York City earlier today, Jorgensen stated that while microtransactions will likely become ubiquitous for free-to-play mobile games, larger console titles will likely focus more on content services like Battlefield Premium. "All of our mobile games will have micro-transactions in them, because almost all of them are going to a world where they are play for free," he said. "The real core of the microtransaction business is within the mobile part of our business which is the free-to-play business."
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.
I guess that is one reason why WiiU has the NFC tech they would want a safe and easy way to do Microtransactions.
Maybe for Indies. (and EA, lol)
EA is backing down because of the flack their getting plain and simple! Although there are those that would support microtransaction, I'm sure the majority of gamers wouldn't! It could be more of a hinderance to tolal game sales.
Whatever EA. You continue your crappy business practices and I'll continue to not buy any of your games.
Don't worry, EA and others will keep pressing buttons. They just won't publicly say it, they will just keep pushing till people rage at them and stop buying games. Then they will apologize, and find something new to milk money out of.
Publishers need to realize the 60 bucks is a lot of money to regular people. We got bills and food to pay for, internet, power, heating, insurance, rent, it all stacks up. 60 bucks becomes an investment we're hoping to get a lot out of. And when publishers try to get even more money out of us just so we can enjoy the game we already bought, it gets really frustrating.