In terms of Tiger Woods ’11, the Online Pass will give gamers access to all multiplayer functions. For people that buy the game used, or use rental services like Gamefly or Blockbuster, the code will be available on the XBox Marketplace or Playstation Store for $10. As can be expected, the announcement was not met with a positive reception. But what does it really mean?
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.
Ok guys I support this idea but not the policy.Gamers need to stop buying games used because the developers dont get thier hard earned money however paying 10 dollars for an online pass is ridiculous.If you buy it used you should have all rights if you rent it you should be able to test the product,how can you test a product if the online is blocked?I really no one supports this.
Its a give and take thing. We had to put up with rising game prices and incomplete games that you must buy DLC to get the complete experience.
This is just another poly by publishers to skim more money off gamers. I for one don't like it at all. Weather publishers like it or not. Selling and buying used products is acceptable in every industry.
What if you pay $60 for a game and it's crap? Are they going to start offering partial refunds?
This is a scam. They are taking away features you currently enjoy.
You will need to pay $10 for every other person in your family times every other console in your house to get what you currently have now.
And when your system dies and need to reinstall onto a new system you will need to pay $10 for every person in your family on that console as well because it will no longer be the first installed device anymore
Scam. EA. Scam.
Since we have multiple consoles we won't be buying anymore of their games.
Bunch of scam artists.