An anonymous game developer went on reddit.com and explained to the community on why the gaming industry is the way-it-is in a surprising multi-paragraph statement that explains DRM, piracy, and the current EA boycott in the developer's eyes. Find out everything he said after the break!
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.
Why don't you guys do something useful like attack lulzsec instead of writing an essay about something everyone knows about.
“DRM exists because people pirate games…that’s the way it is“
I hope you PC fanboys read this because im tired of you guys whining about DRM.
So Anonymous are developing games now. I've about had it with these guys!
I think this guy speaks crap.
DRM is fine as long as it dose not require constant internet access and I'm not limit to so many installs.
Now Cloud base gaming will not happen for a very along time if ever. The internet has not evolved enough. A lot of PC gamers that pride themselves in making amazing machine might not have bandwidth to play there games at max settings 1080p+. It would also demolish nivdia and ATI market and that I doubt they would let it go.
I will stick to building for as long as can and would probably stop PC gaming if it came to cloud gaming as the chances of cable ever appearing in my area is extremely low.
"Digitally Download your games. The sooner retail stores are mostly out of the equation, the sooner some of these aspects of the industry might dissipate."
SCREW THAT!!!
Until ISP's start supporting rural America & small towns, and lets be honest here... a majority of America is made up of rural area & small towns, this will never happen. As digital downloading gets more popular, bandwidth limits are getting worse. Don't believe me, look at Comcast... one of the top ISP's in the US, and as of 2008 it has a 250GB limit per month when it use to have NONE. ISP's are not going to allow there customers to burn up bandwidth by watching movies and downloading games or streaming games (stupid Onlive) as much as you want.
When iTunes came out, everyone said music CD's would no longer be sold and movies as-well. Then when Netflix came out everyone said movies would no longer be bought then too. But I can still find every new music CD and new movie at retail, so it's rather obvious people still buy retail.
There will always be a market for retail while this issues are still present... not to mention the human mentality of actually owning something.