If you regularly buy games, there’s a high chance that you’ve complained about how much they cost, and it’s totally understandable. $60 is a lot of money to spend on a game you may or may not even like. But there’s something you need to keep in mind next time you’re in GameStop, picking up the latest Mario Kart. You shouldn’t complain about the prices of video games anymore, because they’re cheaper than ever.
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.
Lol........Try $90 here in the UK! for PS4/xbone.
"When I really sit down to think about it, video games are so cheap nowadays, that it blows my mind. Just yesterday, I bought the Resistance collection for $19.99. That’s three games for $6.67 each. Insane."
What ? Budget collection always existed , and were always cheap . The is nothing to gloat about such prices when one of the game is from 2007 , and a truly bad example .
Anyway i agree that yeah new retail games used to cost a lot more than today . So some perspective is needed .
But it doesnt mean it couldnt or shouldnt get cheaper . Also the author forget that some genres used to last longer , and werent cut into pieces for dlc material
Why shouldn't people complain? I would absolutely love it if all games were roughly the same price as DVDs and still profitable for the industry. It'd be a lot easier to buy them all!
I will not stop complaining. Microtransactions will be the death of me