Back in 2009 when the Wii was still insanely popular and Microsoft's Kinect concept (then called Natal) was first revealed, IndustryGamers wrote that game makers would be wise not to get too caught up in the motion craze. Now it's 2011 and both Microsoft and Sony have been selling their motion solutions for the last few months. Will the industry ultimately place too much emphasis on motion controls? EA CEO John Riccitiello doesn't think so, since motion gaming seems to be limited to certain genres.
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.
He's right. I hope he's right at least. Motion controls for action adventure games, for FPS and a whole bunch of genres will just be too annoying.
Captain Hindsight told me this a long time ago....nothing new guys
Amen to that. Die already motion crap. Go back to hell and stay there forever.
Unless motion controller latency is effectively eliminated somehow, then motion controls will forever be an afterthought in action, FPS or anything faster or more involved than casual sports or walking your character around.
Please. Your just repeating what Sony said. They said the same thing when they revealed the Move, and Microsoft and now EA are repeating exactly what they said. Copy cats. @ Incipio. play SC with Move. No noticable lag or latency. Don't listen to the liars who say their is lag.