360 Magazine: Executive Producer, Casey Hudson, explains why the inclusion of multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 was always going to upset some gamers.
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.
In other news, birds fly and Kirby eats things.
Is it me, or does Casey Hudson [pictured] look a lot like Casey Affleck? In which casey, that's some coincidence.
I hope ME3 MP is good, I really do. I still don't see the point, though and I can't see it enduring beyond a couple of weeks.
I'm quite looking forward to seeing how it all pans out. Many people are quick to judge, assuming that it's just going to be player vs player and then posting a hate comment based on this assumption, but it looks like they've put some though into delivering something unique, and so I'm willing to give them a chance. After all, aren't we always complaining that developers never try anything new with their series? Well, Bioware are, so now we're complaining about that?
My other reason is simple; people were quick to judge AC: Brotherhood, but once it actually released it gained a hardcore following and plenty of fans, including those who condemned it to the fires of Hell itself.
So, I'll give Bioware the chance to try this out and see what sort of potential it holds.
Yeah because lets face it even though ME2 was good you moved away from the thing which made the first ME so great, kind of like how even though RE5 was still a good game it was ruined by co-op horror, instead Bioware wanted more money so they turned it into a action focused TPS.
Now you guys are wasting time and resources on multiplayer when you could of spent the money on your team and made the single player even longer and pack it more of single player features.