Valve is beginning to place themselves in the position of effectively becoming the distributor of choice for all gamers on all platforms with the exception of consoles. Meaning, Valve will through steam control the content delivery for users using Mac and PC as well as Linux.
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.
No one better suited for the job than Valve.
For one medium sized company, they hold a gigantic chunk of overall gmae distribution pie.
monopoly much?
wheres HL episode 3?
Good article. Valve is a behemoth in the game industry, not only with their repertoire of AAA only games but with Steam and digital distribution. If Valve were to have a single unified service across on computer platforms then they would draw in a lot of people that would otherwise not think about gaming. Linux and Mac gaming is beginning to bloom and I can see something wonderful happening if everybody from those three platforms come together to form a unified Steam.
Brilliant. Now all I ask is that Microsoft ditches games for windows live and gets together with Valve to add achievements to steam (that are compatible with the current live system)
Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or Sony bought the company...