EA shut servers down, this much we know. EA have now also decided it’s a good idea to require you to have the code from your brand new copy of whichever game you’ve picked up to access the online multi-player side of things, or if you’ve bought pre-owned to then buy access to the online multi-player. Put these together and they spell big money for EA at the expense of us gamers. Now i’m not naive enough to think that a company like EA loses a minute’s sleep over hitting gamers square in the pocket, after all business is business and money talks right. EA are a business and of course they’re going to want to make as big a profit as is humanly possible from every release. It’s just a shame they feel that us gamers aren’t quite spending enough of our hard earned cash as it is or feel we’re all so well off we can afford to buy every rehashed sports title full price.
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.
i see more and more companies following EA in future
I agree with author, I don't see the point in online access codes. It makes me not want to play/buy the game.
EA server nazi lol
I don't like online access codes. No other companies does it besides greedy ones. first party games (MS and Sony) never do this so why should third party ones? Like i see it; the company has made money off of the initial sale. This practice doesn't increase sales; people buy used games for a reason. Some people can't afford to pay 60 bucks for a new game and have to spend their money wisely. I think this is in bad taste. Once you buy the game, it drops in value because of the lack of online play.
smh