Product-Reviews writes: While it may be compensation for DICE and other developers in the industry, we doubt many of you will feel the same way. It’s understandable why the developers are doing this, but perhaps it isn’t the best way forward for the future in terms of keeping the balance healthy. If you eliminate the whole ‘enjoyment’ idea of buying a used game, it could backfire against developers when it comes to future titles down the line and a loss of a few sales which could prove to be quite costly for the developer in the long run.
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.
Just buy the game new. It's not that big of a deal...
The online pass idea is expected with BF3 for me, and if it means the same for some other games I will just go with the flow. I say bring on the Pass.
While most of us will not mind paying for the Pass, you do have to wonder about the real motives behind it.
The motives are... there is more money to be made, so let's rinse some more from gamers while it's still legal.
I'll be buying my games outright..full price, but I'm just saying if I came across a bargain section of a store selling Arkham City for $20, but then I need to pay another $10 just to unlock a section of that game.. it's shitty and defeats the objective of buying pre-ordered games in the first place.
It was Activision who was putting Online passes onto there games I doubt any gamers on this site would ever let it down.
But lets face it because EA are such a big company and have so many titles that gamers would much rather bite there lip and buy rather than cut there hands off and go without, they try to brush it under the carpet as discreet as possible.
Double Standards has been the Standard of this site lately in relation to gamers comments