"It seems that EA and Popcap are doing A/B testing of sorts to see just how far consumers are willing to be pushed before they break; trying to see just how much money they can get out of people before they’re incensed.
And perhaps, they’ve finally crossed the line."
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.
Unfortunately articles like this will be completely ignored by the majority of people here, or should i say sheep. They are too busy thinking about titanfall and battlefield while EA laughs at them.
Sums up EA...
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It won't be too long until they make you pay a fee to continue the game after every death.
Umm yes?
P.s ea if you are reading this you can pay a small amount of money to have the above sentence in a different font or colour since you like microtransactions so much!
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One, thought they took them too far with Dead Space 3.
Two, the problem with looking for the breaking point, that once you've found and likely exceeded it, you lose customer trust. Pretty much like they've done with me.
Cause I'm realizing that out of hand I don't buy EA games. I got sick of what they were doing with online and Burnout taking up to five minutes to actually play a game while it did checks. Then there's what they did with ME which no one either talks about or admits, which was to make into bad fanfiction with each entry.
I also ignore Activision titles automatically just because they've failed to cater to my likes in the past.