With FIFA 16 just around the corner, I tackle the age-old question: is FIFA a rip off?
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 same question should be asked of any sports title (NHL, Madden. Pro Evo, etc.)
It doesn't really matter since gamers will vote with their wallets and make it a top seller nearly every time.
Yes, it is!
FIFA is a total ripoff of this game we call "soccer" here in the US. Even the balls and player hairstyles look the same.
Then they go all fictional with it, where soccer is some sorta popular sport all over the world, and fills entire stadiums and stuff, though. All that snazzy hair, and guys wearing shorts and sporty shirts.. yeah pretty wierd. They even have the gall to call it "football", which is clearly another, much more American, sport altogether, where huge manly men smash heads together and generally behave in a much more civil manner.
Well whatever. If you want football, buy Madden as usual. If you want wierd fiction, buy a JRPG, or this game I guess.
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You're only asking this question now? lol
Hefty price tags every year..
Short answer : YES!
Long answer : Absofuckinglutely!