Hardcore Gamer With EA Access, Microsoft is no longer chasing the car they’ll never catch. They’re re-routing their attention and focusing on their biggest guns instead of improving their tiniest ones
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.
The momentum is swinging to Microsoft they're doing some great things and making all of the right moves
EA has the widest selection of games available within the industry. They have their hands dipped in every pie... sports, racers, horror, FPS's, RPG's & whatever other genre I've missed..
The catch that everyones going on about will probably be something like that they will only have 5-7 games available at any one time & they'll swap them out as & whenever they please.
Not many publishers could pull this sort of thing off. Activision couldn't as all they have is Call of Duty & movie tie in games.
Ubisoft maybe..
Does this give Microsoft an advantage? Yes, I would say so to a certain extent. Like it or not EA are massive (worse company or not) & are unmatched in the size of their library.
This is just Microsoft answer to PSNOW. Nothing to worry about
It was a smart move from EA to Microsoft. It has me interested.
I look at FIFA and BF4 and they've only dropped $10.
I've been waiting to get BF4, now I can download it for $30 and get 10% discounts and access to numerous other games as well.
And there my hopes go I see EA titles appearing on Games for Gold... Now I need to pay extra for those games... FANTASTIC! Because I love to pay extra... Why can't we have those older games from EA just the way it is supposed to be... through GAMES FOR GOLD!
And the $5 extra for those that want early access or more games. Hell I would pay $30 a year if EA would offer me 1 game a month or two and I can play as long as I have the EXTRA subscription. And that written in stone so we get compensation if something changes.