An opinion piece where I analyze the latest Medal of Honor controvery and the "video game violence" problem, which turns out to be less important than we all believe.
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.
Wow. I have too much of a life too read through all that, however that is some pretty EXTENSIVE research and analysis going on there. Too bad the UK Stupidity Of Defence never visits N4G.
Games are linked to violence as much as films are. Games are a fantasy simulation. Just cause you shoot a "soldier" who is nothing but a series of codes and programming of a 3d model, textured, rendered and animated to visually represent a real life figure in a virtual/digital form, has abosolutely no links to what is happening in afghanistan or iraq.
Its like they everyone, especially NON-GAMERS to believe shooting a soldier in a game is like shooting an entire nation.
Hi,
It's a long read, I know but I hope it's interesting and at least, in the case of the 'video game violence' controversy, it provides an out of the box view of the whole problem. I just hope someone will pick it up and analyze further. We need that.
Thanks again for your appreciation
I watch the video, it isn't like Cops and Robbers......Yeah it pretty much is.
The way I see it, it is apart of are history and the game isn't being told like what it is now, so it isn't base on real life things that happen (She pretty much said it was), anyways War is War.
This is just another way to make people understand how it was for those people that went to war for us, so it may not be base off what they seen and done, but this is close as we can get.