Epic's Mike Capps speaks out on piracy and PC/console gaming.
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.
Piracy killed the PC's profitablity long ago thats why PC's best ends up on console.
Hello COD, Battlefield, Crysis 2,Sims 3......if there was a model for MMOs on console WoW would be there too.
When the last time they did a good pc game? Valve sure as hell can make profit from the PCs. BFBC2 proved that the pc version of a game can outsell the consoles. Maybe they would have seen better sales if they weren't treating the pc like ass (despite the fact that it's the platform that helped them get off the ground - so much for gratitude)
bc2 sold more on pc?
last time i checked it was over 4 millions between ps3+360.
I highly doubt it sold more on pc.
and look at that comment about metro.epic fail
more likely they can feed any type of games to consolers. PC are into quality or social titles.
Why make PC games on something that is a pain to make for? I mean most people are using Windows XP but Microsoft wants everyone to use Windows 7 or at least Vista.
So it is hard to make a PC game work with them an not be ungodly to the point were everyone has to have a hardcore gaming computer, I got Mass Effect 2 for my PC an it has all the specs. But problem is that my Video card isn't the right one for it.
Where if you just buy a 360 or PS3, you can play anything for that system an not have to buy alot of parts just to play one game and gaming systems are getting pretty close to being PC's.