EA has had the monopoly on video game football for about 6 years now and have done absolutely nothing with it. Madden has been a disappointment since reaching the PS3 and 360. Not that EA will listen, but here is some unsolicited advice on how to make a crap game less crappy.
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.
Of course Madden sucks. Without any competition breathing down their necks, what incentive do they have to improve it? All they have to do is slap "Madden" on the cover once a year and the rubes will devour it.
Mad Props for using Keanu Reeves character from the Replacements-Shane Falco as the cover pic for this article
Yes Madden has been horrible since Madden 2005. And has yet to impress during the PS3/360 era.
I just don't understand how Madden has gotten dumber over the years. Madden 06 had a lot of stuff in it like player training, player icons, etc. They even had a radio show featuring the awesome Tony Bruno saying what was going on every week. Move to PS3/360 era and they still haven caught up to a 6 year old game. Ridiculous.