NHL 15 is a promising addition to the EA NHL franchise. It’s coming out for the PS4 and Xbox One and promised high detail to graphics and such. However, when we’ve been told they’ve potentially left out a lot of key components in the game play, we get a little skeptical.
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 have been really looking forward to this game, the demo showed a lot of promise. I really hope they do get it all fixed.
The list of missing features is huge. They are selling an unfinished game...not to me though.
Don't buy it then. Simple.
I can't support this. I really want it for my collection because my favorite NHL player is on the cover. That's a terrible reason to give a company $60 for a game that is so massively lacking. This is actually quite pathetic and everything that is wrong with EA.
I am sure I will get it at some point, but not until it is down to $20. This is just pure disrespect. They basically took out everything that doesn't directly involve micro-transactions.
Again, pathetic.
(Checks box...confirms EA logo is present) Yup, not buying it. Moving on.