"EA have recently announced their EA Access Service (for details see here) however the announcement of the service has raised a number of questions from fans and critics alike. In this article I seek to address the concerns gamers are having with the service, along with a discussion about implications it may have for the industry going forward."
An extract from AMHNetwork's piece on EA Access - Agree with their thoughts?
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.
No question, esprcially @ 30$/year (2.50$/month) it just needs more time to expand the library as right now it is a bit slim. A year or two from now though there is no question this is an amazing deal, even with just the games announced so far it has me thinking about it.
It will work. Maybe not right away..but it will work. Im definitely subscribing.
Got my $30 already.
Fuk the 10% savings. 4 games and 5 day early access to new games. I am day one subscriber and anyone that feels like this service is no good is CRAZY. You get your money back with two of the vault games (Then Some). Just keep evolving Microsoft & EA. The minute Microsoft stepped of the E3 2013 floor it's been nothing but good news. Just stay humble and keep progressing.
"EA Access - Will It Work?"
The part where they take your money will work...