End of an era. Who do we vote as the worst company ever now?
EA being voted as the worst company has always been funny to me. The world would be a far better place if it was indeed the case.
The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized
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EA lost FIFA a few years ago. The games are now "FC". They still sell though.
Shit. I had a feeling I was fucking up on one of those. The other three are still massive franchises, though.
Another big one is College Football, at least in the US. And in the latest edition they nerfed the offline single-player mode's XP progression. In return they added microtransactions to buy XP points. For offline single-player. Gachaification continues.
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>They're a joke They are known for making games that sell to a mass audience and monetizing them well. It's like calling McDonald's a joke. It doesn't take away that they are a successful business affecting many people in the world.
I agree they're good at making games that sell to a mass audience - but I really think that a lot of franchises have wasted a ton of money partnering with EA, which makes poor quality games that are exactly the same as the one they printed out 12 months ago. I haven't heard anyone talking about an EA sports game since the PS1 era and they seem to have completely missed the e-sports era where DOTA and Fortnight made v…
If you havent heard of people playing ea sports games since ps1 you're in a bubble.
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It's not a financial investment. They're buying influence.
So we can expect Battlefield: Iran sometime soon? Starting the propaganda for a ground invasion. I wonder if this one one of the crowd-sourced ideas submitted to the DoD?
What do you mean ‘starting the propagand’? It already was a propaganda vehicle, but it will not be the US behind it this time.
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#46This is being bought by Affinity Partners, the same Kushner led group that’s trying to buy out FIFA? Is the Trump family just going to own all of our entertainment and military companies?
> Is the Trump family just going to own all of our entertainment and military companies?
Are we the Bad Guys?
Not any more. Now we're the Worse Guys.
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#47Does this mean we'll finally get a new Sim City?
Are you that eager to give your money to the Saudis and Kushner?
There’s a whole world of gaming out there.
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What? This is JP Morgan on the hook for it if the loan goes bad.
You'll have to pay for it anyway. Games will get more expensive, there'll be more micro-transactions, etc. The investors as well as JP Morgan want their money back.
I wouldn't be so quick to assume the capital structure of a company influences its product decisions. Lots of well-funded, publicly traded companies are also screwing their customers for the sake of short-term revenue.
Want better games? Find them. Support the smaller studios and indie devs that produce quality, or contribute to a FOSS one.
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>They're a joke They are known for making games that sell to a mass audience and monetizing them well. It's like calling McDonald's a joke. It doesn't take away that they are a successful business affecting many people in the world.
The 'core gamer' bubble has always been bad for this. Sports games sell like hotcakes and have people buy them every year religiously but you never hear about them, sims too. Their other titles were heavy hitters. Their just a seperate audience; EA certainly has influence, just not with people that talk about games.
Cultural influence though?
Are you going to have MAGA Madden?
The Socialist League?
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I agree they're good at making games that sell to a mass audience - but I really think that a lot of franchises have wasted a ton of money partnering with EA, which makes poor quality games that are exactly the same as the one they printed out 12 months ago. I haven't heard anyone talking about an EA sports game since the PS1 era and they seem to have completely missed the e-sports era where DOTA and Fortnight made v…
News to me about FIFA. SA has been trying to gain "influence" in sports overall, and their video game endeavors also seem focused on "e-sports" more than gaming as a whole. I frequently hear complaints about them in fighting game circles, which is a more niche segment of "e-sports". EA is a big step up even if it's not DOTA/LoL levels.
Yeah. Actually it looks to me like FIFA jumped the gun a bit. They stopped letting EA making their games in 2023, but then choaked and have only released two not-great looking games seemingly meant for low end systems like phones and the Nintendo Switch. I doubt either sold as well as the EA FIFA games.
I'll bet they lost a lot of money - I'm sure there's an interesting story about FIFA's efforts to get their own game development up and running. I guess they wanted EA to pay $300 million per year and EA said no, but I doubt FIFA made 50 million on the games they released.