The veteran designer believes the industry is far from realizing games' potential; he also says EA's Sim City server problems were "inexcusable."
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.
"That was basically inexcusable, that you charge somebody $60 for a game and they can't play it. I can understand the outrage"
This is the single most poignant statement I've ever heard form a game developer in the current market. DRM is going to end up either killing off a lot of possibilities for gamers, or it will effectively limit what we are able to enjoy.
It's almost a censoring of what we're able to play.
DRM is one thing but games have single handedly pushed Hollywood in the right direction. Has anybody noticed the quality of blockbusters made lately and how much they are influenced by games. Iron Man, Star Trek and even cinematography in Lincoln which looked very much like Red Dead in places. I think games, and more importantly gamers, expect more for their buck and this has pushed quality way up. Capcom and the DLC fiasco shows scars from attempting to rip gamers off, my advice to developers is to release 'full' games straight up with NO day 1 patches. They used to do this feat at previous generations. I didn't buy the injustice DLC this time, bought Mortal Kombat as it seemed like they produced the DLC after the full game, Injustice feels just like an 'Injustice' as they obviously just held back 4 characters. Batgirl was leaked, what a joke!
The video game industry is at a crossroads right now and I would love too see the industry rise to meet the challenge. I don't think it will. Right now a very vicious element is at the lead of the video game industry, an element that is only concerned with cheating people out of as much money as possible.
It would be nice if the creative talent could gain some form of control over the course of the industry. Honestly, I think the vampiric companies currently leading the industry are going to burn out consumers with terrible, generic games and then the industry will crash when consumers lose all faith in the industry as a whole. The industry will crash like it did back in the 80s and I really don't have a problem with that. Maybe then these companies will stop trying to suck their consumers dry with pointless dlc and crap games.