360 Magazine: Mass Effect 3′s Executive Producer, Casey Hudson, gives us a behind the scenes glimpse at 2012′s biggest RPG…
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.
Well he would, wouldn't he.
I think it was a mistake to waste dev cycles on multiplayer for Mass Effect. Think of the additional content they could have included instead, and you get the picture.
The first 2 games sold well, and were solid single player experiences...why change that? It seems like an attempt to be something it is not (perhaps trolling for additional new target audience).
I still think this was a serious misstep.
EA Online Pass. That is all this multiplayer is for.
Doesn't matter to me I'm not a bioware fan at all.
And I never buy games new so and I never buy online passes.
That means I will never get the uncharted 3 plat because of 1 trophy and I honestly don't care.
I don't support all this milking and dlc bullsh*t that goes on these days, neither should you.
@Blacktric They did just fine before this gen with pre-owned sales. They make a good game and people will buy it, they make half a game and release the other half as dlc throughout the year then release a bundled edition well I would just wait.
I'm not b*tching about anything, just saying that developers this gen are greedy as f*ck and we are feeding that greed.
There has to be a better way of encouraging sales than spoiling games with multiplayer that really shouldn't have them.