“It was a really strong line-up but... they’re just so hard to like.”
That was one industry analyst speaking to MCV moments after EA closed its E3 2015 press event.
Yes, it was heavy on the marketing slogans, and granted, perhaps a bit too much time/not enough time (delete where appropriate) was spent talking to football legend Pele.
But with Star Wars, Mass Effect, Mirror’s Edge, Need for Speed and FIFA, this was one of EA’s strongest ever E3 showings. Wasn’t it?
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.
Peter Moore - "We would have no compunction, no hesitation whatsoever, that if something was to go wrong with Star Wars Battlefront – if it wasn’t right – we would just push it. But that’s not going to happen.”
Yeah, that last line - Star Wars Battlefront is not going to miss it's release window - even if it's a bugs nest. DICE will just have to bite the crunch. The potential sale loss if it misses the movie release window will not allow EA that luxury - "players first" be damned.
'Fool me once'
Yea I think this could be like Battlefield 4 all over again....
"here are things that we have done over the years that gamers have taken umbrage too - sometimes rightly and, bluntly, most of the times wrongly"
Most of the times wrongly ? ok EA. You have the reputation you have for a reason, it's up to you to now change the opinions of gamers.
EA has definitely improved of late, but they still do things that annoy me as a gamer, the Sims 4 being one of the most annoying things. And as a big fan of FIFA, i am annoyed that they are messing that up too, FIFA 13 was the last good one for me. I'm also a big fan of Simpsons games and since EA got hold of those games, all they have done is made a game that tied in with the film and made a mobile game. The only reason they got the rights to make Simpson's games was to make money, they aren't thinking of the fans at all there.
Let's see what they do with Battlefront, i'm expecting too see a bunch of DLC packs. If they do that, then they will just annoy me even more.