The Sims 4 isn't going to launch with pools or toddlers, and people are pretty upset about that. But you know, toddlers are complicated. Makes sense that the developers might want to put that effort elsewhere. Pools, though? They're just water. How hard could it be?
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.
Hold on. The series has had pools since its inception. Why was it taken out in the first place. You made that extra work for yourself for not developing the game from the get go with such a basic feature.
So is it comming at all? Will it cost money? I can't help but think that EA/developers have sliced up the game some more in an attempt to sell more DLC. Either that or they chose a game engine not wholly suited for the sims. I can't decided which sounds worse
Some games are getting downgraded for dlc later. We made it possible gamers. Lets keep pretending that dlc is really just extra content made later for the fans.
I dont see the big deal, usually when I play sims even if I put a pool in I never use it, its just there because I can put it in.
I've never been into the Sims games. I can see the bs lies though. I know pools and toddlers were done before. This is exactly how EA works. They love people paying extra for things that should be in-game. They love taking features away to add one or two. And they love lying like they know what's best. "The game's engine, as is, simply isn't built to support things like digging into ground or Sims easily moving up and down within it". EA is going to get torn apart talking like that. Also why I have no faith in EA Access.
When has EA ever put in the extra effort in their games?