Exploring the frustrations and drawbacks of the Sandbox gaming genre, with the aid of eye-catching graphs, partial nudity and VERY harsh language.
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 is call of duty listed under sandbox?
Edit: Wasnt something similar listed on this yesterday?
He starts complaining about stupid stuff and then says, "What I am not looking for is ‘challenge’ brought about through bullshit instant kill attacks (I’m looking at you, Dead Space)" I had to read the title of the article again. Was Dead Space A Sandbox game???
He totally lost my interest when he started using graphs to explain why game elements are or aren't relevant. And then mentions that the sweet spot on the graph is a picture of my mum.
What again was his point...? Awful article... "The Trouble With Self Absorbed Poster Mark Butler" should be the better title.
enough of these non-gamer journalist that can't find their way around in a Sandbox.
It's just like the one from yesterday,
THE GUY ALWAYS USED LEGO INSTRUTIONS!
Cause he never could use his imagination.
A game doesnt need story to be fun. If you want a great story in a game go play a visual novel.
It's the butter, man!
That's the problem with sandbox games.
Think of a game as a piece of toast. The production value/polish is the butter.
In a sandbox game, the size of the toast gets bigger, but they're still working with the same amount of butter.
GTA4 had quite a few dry spots; Uncharted 2 left everyone with butterfingers.
EDIT: Daah, buttered toast Eddy!