EA's CFO may have recanted his previous statements about all of his company's future games including microtransactions, but it's still not clear that they get it. Just how detrimental to gaming can microtransactions be?
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 remember when micro transactions were just for F2P games . O the good ol days
I kinda feel like the microtransaction stuff is kinda easy to avoid, there are always alternatives. I don't like the idea of microtransaction being in 60 dollar games, so I just don't purchase them, or in the case of something like Mass Effect 3 I just use the in game currency.
Show the publishers that Microtransactions aren't viable in this space, it will slowly disappear.
Remember when Cheat Codes existed? And they were free?
Microtransactions are fine if the game is free to play, if I'm paying money out the gate the game better be complete.
Microtransanctions for regular non F2P games can work but only if they are treated as a separate component like regular multiplayer modes. Forcing it to be a big part of the singleplayer experience would just be a big scam.