I miss Bullfrog and Westwood !

Not only killed off studios, but also ruin studios and games.

That company has destoryed talent and opportunities from growing.

It's a pure corporate shite from the highest order, even winning awards for being the worst gaming company.

Wish people would wake up and stop supporting this company.

Thanks EA for taking a diarrhea dump all over a game and studio I really liked.

Best publisher in the world, let me tell you.

Bioware is next.

RIP Pandemic.

Next up is Bioware.

F*k EA and also the morons that keep buying their crappy yearly releases.

Love the story about them trying to steal BlackBox's need for speed tech after cancelling NFS Drift 3 and a random clause in the contract was the only thing that saved them from being pillaged by EA

No Maxis? No Visceral?... they were definitely top 5.

*EDIT* I just realized we not only lost Dead Space, but we lost Army of Two also....

Now im sad again.

EA are a cancer for gaming. They take everything and squeeze it until all that's left is shit.

Bet most of the people who get into business with EA or Activision have back up plans, maybe their own studio, or original IP they keep on the back burners just in case. I would.

Strategy is quite clear, buy out the competition so you can sell inferior quality

Patrick Soderlund, the guy behind Visceral's closure, tried to do the same to the guys who made Project Cars per the owner on a podcast interview, when they worked for them. Now he does this to Visceral, and I had read it was his idea that everyone must use Frostbyte which impacted Mass Effect:Andromeda. Outside of a new Dragon Age, I cannot think of anything EA is making thats exciting to me now that they are killing what the Visceral game was going to be. They have all these great IP and they do nothing with it.

Microsoft should hire all the people from the studios EA ruins so that they can make some exclusives again.

I loved Bullfrog I use to play Theme Hospital all the time on the PS1 all the time. I wanted a Theme Hospital sequel but the evil shadow of EA quickly killed that idea I wonder how long before Bioware joins that list.

R. I. P. WESTWOOD and Command and Conquer

Usually a defender of EA, but I don't know if I can forgive them closing the team behind Dead Space.....

EA is a blight on the game industry. I have been avoiding EA games after they destroyed Command & Conquer, an IP that once was at the top of strategy gaming and should have lasted well into the 21st century. I also blame some of the devs who allowed themselves to be bought by EA despite having seen what the company has done to other great studios in the past.

Westwood, Bullfrog, Visceral, Pandemic, sigh....the list goes on. When I look at the original game boxes of so many games I always start getting angry at how much gaming has changed once the game designers allowed certain corporations to take over. As for EA, one just wonders where they get their decision-makers from? I honestly believe that with many of these studios had they been left to do what they do best, the financial benefits would have been huge and gamers would have had wonderful games to enjoy. One only has to look at Naughty Dog, Guerilla and even Sucker Punch and it is clear that Sony appear to realize that what is the point of buying a studio if the developer isn't allowed to do continue doing what the studio is good at and the reason why it was purchased in the first place.

I also think some gamers are also to blame - look at the apologists for games like Shadow of Morodor and Forza 7 who continue to shout that if we do not like loot boxes and micro-transactions, we don't have to buy the game without realizing it is a slippery slope and that if we didn't buy such games, the practice would soon stop and we could get back to having games that delivered the content we expect for, say, $75 and maybe a little bit more for a genuine extension or two. I would rather pay a bit more or have a smaller game and a better experience than be told that game development costs a lot more money than it used to and MTs and Loot boxes are the only ways devs can 'eat'.

And I was hoping we get a Dantes inferno sequel one day

Really... they had to put that on multiple pages? Damn clickbait websites need to be banned.

I don't like EA, and it's not just studios they destroy, it's games such as pga golf that their own studios make. To their credit though, at least they invest in ambitious projects.

U know who should be chastised too? The morons that buy EA games. Stop buying their games people. Vote with your wallet. Because your mouth doesn't amount to anything I'm afraid.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau