PCGMedia wrote an article dissecting Moore's statement, and have collected user feedback on ways in which EA can improve. Written by the editor, the piece lists 5 reasons EA are a detriment to gaming culture, and then explains how they can improve the problem. The piece aims to be incisive, logical, and non-sensationalist, in hopes of getting to the real meat of the issue.
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 got your list right here. Stop finding ways to kill quality franchises, stop with the online passes, stop with the broken DRM, don't release broken products that don't function and most importantly (as well as to sum up) STOP screwing with your customers!
@RogueSmurf
Just read the list myself lol. Yup, they covered the same topics as well (albeit in a different and more informative manner).
I think that one thing EA needs to do is step back and realize that they are one of the few companies who can (quite literally) afford to take risks. so many games theyve made over the past few years have been lackluster at best, knowing that their brand name or neutral concept will sell well anyway. what would benefit them most is to admit to themselves that "everyone outside of our circle of games, pretty much hates us", and expand their horizons to ideas that might cater to those outside audiences, instead of trying to anchor them in with another madden. bottom line is that just as the article states, risk taking is key.
Sure mirror edge didnt sell all that well, but it is one of the few games from EA that earns that cult following a lot of their other games lack. in a lot of ways it will probably be remembered long passed some of their other titles.
I honestly cant imagine how Theres little to no hope for mirrors edge 2, but weve already seen 3 horrific army of 2 games.
shut down Origin and go back to Steam would be job no.1
EA is far from the worst company sorry gamers feel way too entitled these days and u wonder why there is drm and and online passes. Everybody expects triple a titles but dont want to pay for them and quite honestly they could give a shit less about ur opinion or mine !!
the only good game from them is Battle Field and Dead Space. Everything else is garbage.