Leviathyn | The big question as of late is whether Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds, is worth more than all of Electronic Arts. Rovio is getting ready for an IPO and some have speculated that the company is worth upwards of 9 Billion, more than twice EA. Yeah, I said 9 Billion. However, my question is more like, “Is Angry Birds the Mario for smart phones as a platform or is it a fad based on the economy?“
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
Rovio “found it difficult to advance its initially planned business development,” says Sega.
I wouldn't consider this "the big question," since no one's asked it, but this could be interesting. I thought Rovio was only worth 1.5 billion or so?
This kinda thing scares me. If these kind of games catch on, gaming will die out (especially if Apple releases a console).
It's sad to see an upstart company made more money than EA all thanks to one game. EA released tons of game every year for all types o gaming system since the 1980s only to be compared, usually in a negative light, with a company that sold only ONE game in the past decade.
More importantly I do hope this won't force EA to abandon us for mobiles.