EA's E3 conferences are normally disappointing, full of the same-old FPS and sports garbage that we've come to expect. Despite this, last year’s conference was one of 2013’s most memorable, giving us looks at new additions to the Mirror’s Edge, Need for Speed and Star Wars: Battlefront franchises. Twelve months on, and it’s time to see if lightning will strike twice for the two-time Worst Company in America, or if we'll just get more stale sequels to tired-out franchise. Can EA drag themselves out of the cesspit that they've fallen into? Here’s what to expect from EA at E3 2014.
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 hope next year won't be the worst company in USA, they have nice things to show us.
Mirror's Edge 2 has me excited. The first one had a great concept but I couldnt bring myself to finish it due to the clunky melee and unfair difficulty spikes in certain sections of the game. Towards the end of the game, it took me about 30-45 minutes to get to the top of a room. Once I actually make it to the top....the game freezes on me. At that point I decided to call it quits.
EA has proven to me that they can make a complete 180 with EA UFC. I hope they can do the same Mirror's Edge 2.
"EA's E3 conferences are normally disappointing, full of the same-old FPS and sports garbage that we've come to expect. Despite this, last year’s conference was one of 2013’s most memorable, giving us looks at new additions to the Mirror’s Edge, Need for Speed and Star Wars: Battlefront franchises"
Wait what, same old FPS and sports garbage yet talks up a new Need for Speed announcement as if it's a memorable thing? Don't they release them yearly too? EA always seem to have a racing game in their conferences every year, usually involving some "hip" avoiding the police crap.
Money racking schemes.
I would expect nothing but crap from E.A