God this game sucks, I can’t even pay $60 for a cosmetic.
The last time I respected either company, there were three shapes in EA’s logo.
Oh shit, that takes me back.
Yeah, those lot have been shit for decades.
It’s never been about what we want, not with EA, and not with any company ever. It’s always been about what raises the most amount of profits.
Usually making a profit means making a good product that people want to buy, but as we learn more about marketing and its influence on human behavior, companies can move more and more into a scenario where artificially inflated desire for the product through advertising impacts your decision to buy a product much more than its quality, making products cheaper to make and more profitable to sell.
It used to be that if EA didn’t make a good game for a fair price, they didn’t make money. But then they realized that they didn’t need to do that anymore, and stopped making games with the same level of quality. Then they realized that they can start charging for individual pieces of the game, and boy has that been a profitable decision for them.
I love whoever made the Road Rash, Skitchin’, and Skate 3. Other than that, EA can fuck off. That ship has sailed and I no longer pay attention to their catalog.
I was on an accidental EA boycott between Mass Effect 3 and It Takes Two.
Not for any ideological reason, they just stopped publishing games I wanted to play.
? EA has been shit since probably before 1995…
Never forget what they did to Bullfrog
I wouldn’t say I want more content. There’s way too much content out there. I want higher quality content. I have less free time than the games I’m interested in require. So, I’d appreciate having those limited hours be spent as well as possible.
Yep. I stopped playing Ubisoft games large because there was too much “content.” It was shit tier content exclusively designed to extend play time though. Make content players actually enjoy playing and they’ll appreciate it rather than be annoyed at you wasting their time.
I can’t remember the last time ubisoft respected our time honestly.
The last I remember probably was Splinter Cell. I would say that series ending was when they totally shifted to the way they are now. Notably, the last one came out just a year after Far Cry 3, so it was almost done when they found out how much money they made off of it. After FC3, every game was made to fit that and AC’s style.
The fallacy here is the idea that they care in any way about what gamers WANT.
They care about what gamers are willing to PAY for.
Can I have some more of that games as a live service please?
To be fair, gamers love to spend their money on microtransactions. Just look at how much money is being made from that.
TBH it comes back to wealth inequality.
If you earn a million a month, you will not care about the €10 skin.
gamers don’t want more content they want to be able to date your party members
EA used to be amazing. My first two games were Archon and Seven Cities of Gold in the Amiga 1000.
They were great games. EA didn’t start to really suck until the era of the Internet.
Me 20 years ago whenever that commercial came on:
makes deep voice E.A. Sports. it’s in the game!
Fuck yeah! I love you EA!
now:
EA pulls more bullshit
fuck you EA!
I want less content.
I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding.
And what do you mean, you used to “adore” EA? O.o
You don’t like a really solid 20 hour assassins creed game stretched to 100+ hours of grind?
Shgcking, I know! I also don’t want it to be developed in an environment of abuse! 😱
So, Stray?
Lichess.org was good enough for Gramps and it’s good enough for me.
EA has made some great games.
*They’ve published some great games.
But they were also the prototype of the cash grabbing asshole publisher.
I’m sometimes annoyed at the trend of celebrating a dev when a game turns out well, but blaming the publisher each time it’s bad. It’s quite often a two way street…
Ahem… Anthem, Redfall, etc.
It’s my understanding that Redfall was largely at the publisher’s feet. Bethesda was looking for a big buyout, and live service crap was the big thing. They told Arkane Austin what to make despite it not being what the studio knows how to make.
Sometimes it is the publisher’s fault.
No, they’ve also made some great games.
Give me a good ol’ expansion pack that adds 50% more game for $30-40 instead of trying to sell me each individual piece of content for $5-10 a pop.
You didn’t love the company. You loved the creative teams that poured their hearts and souls into every line of code and pixel drawn and story written.
Well, there was a time those were both the same.
All of those companies became loved when they had 1 to 10 people in there.
…man, that’s a deeeeeep cut for a time when electronic arts developed good games…
