How Kingdom's of Amalur: Reckoning and SSX tackle the world of online passes and DRM and why both of these games' methods are actually a good idea.
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.
No matter how you sugarcoat it, online passes shall forever remain a terrible idea. It's like pimping out a Ford Pinto.......
"What a fantastic idea though if we are completely honest, this is a nice way to stop piracy in single-player games."
What in the what? If crappy DRMs can't stop piracy I'm pretty sure online passes doesn't even come close. The real thing online passes is combating is the sale of used games.
it also combats people buying new games because they cant sell them .
so unless they are triple AAA games , people just wont buy them .
its a double edged sword . but EA aren't that smart
When will people realize that online passes hurt the paying customers. After you pay full price for a game, you should have the right to sell it to whom ever you please.
If everyone just bought new games, who would you sell the games that you didn't enjoy to??
They don't care if your satisfied with their game, if they did they would have a satisfaction guaranteed or a trade in program. BUT THEY DON'T......I wonder why??