Which? Convo: There was a time when you could buy a video game, take it home and play through all there was to offer without spending any more pocket money. Dreaded downloadable content has destroyed that dream.
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.
Really? You guys are so right! Making map packs in first person shooters to keep things fresh is such a Bad thing!
New stuff stinks! Especially new quests for FALLOUT because more replay value makes the game so horrible!
Mortal Kombat 9 is so horrible because they're making us pay for new characters that will let us try new ways to play :(
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Sucks because they released a full Expansion pack "Vietnam" and they made us pay for more hours of enjoyment :(
(SARCASIM!)
I do think DLC-milking has turned into a horrible creature. Some publishers get it right, others like EA, get it wrong.
No matter who is at blame....consumers or game companies, the cat is out of the bag and he isn't going back in! The glory days of rewarding gamers with secret weapons\levels\characters are over (All that has a $$$ value now). DLC is here to stay and IMO you will never buy another game that will be what it could have been (At least on a console that has an online connection). Believe them if you want but, even the most respected devs are purposely taking stuff out to sell later (Sad but true).
So is it killing the game? No just making it less rewarding. What you're left with is a $60 (Plus tax) game that has $30 worth of content.
Add on content is great but it should be FREE we already payed for the game. I wouldn't even mind just paying for a $10 pass to download all the dlc content released that would be fine.
DLC is preventing me from buying some games...not buying till there's a GOTY edition.