
BeefJack: "In the past few years, EA have been cornered into shelling out billions of dollars in development and marketing costs, simply to stay in competition with the other big players in the market. But in committing those funds have they placed themselves in jeopardy?"

Battlefield 3's former Lead Designer has revealed that there were two cut missions from the main campaign
Get rid of campaigns, move the game to mobile, and try to compete with warzone. They would save time and money.

EA is nearing an agreement to move the ongoing development and operation of MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic from BioWare to third-party studio Broadsword Online Games, IGN has learned. The move is intended to allow BioWare to focus on Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

A new update for Star Wars: The Old Republic is coming out on PC and the patch notes provide us with an in-depth look at all the new changes.
I loved this game and have played since launch but don't let this article fool you, this game is a step above life support. While they are still technically updating the game, the updates are few and far between and there is a significant lack of quality control, so many little bugs that have been present for years.
I hope Origins fails. I hate all these programs which are DRM disguised as 'features'.
Game companies don't even release patches for stand online download these days, even for a single player game...you need a got damn account so you can download auto-patches. I had toi do this with BFBC2 which was touted as only having a disk check, so then I have to go online to get a patch so I can change the FOV...wtf
There was a time I was against EA and found their games lackluster. They've now got some excellent studios behind them, and have helped produce some of my favourite games of the the last couple of years... So I hope it's a make and not a break.