- 18 days
Perfect timing and a fitting fate, considering they are now owned by blood oil kings and nazi’s
- Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
I know, I know and everyone defines a different time when it happened. But it’s time for the zombie to… leave.
- 18 days
Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe the last thing they would do is sell off the up to better firms.
18 daysI just realized I haven’t played an EA game in over a decade. SW Battlefront II was the last one, and it felt like a downgrade from the 2005 version.
I mean, are there any of their titles that have made an impact in the last decade? I can’t think of any other than sports and racing games.
It Takes Two and Split Fiction were published by EA.
I also played Titanfall 2 which was a great little campaign.
That’s about it for me.
- mudmaniac@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Once upon a time when Infinity Ward’s founders left Activision because of “Activision”, and formed Respawn with EA, I felt EA were still the good guys in the industry. The Titanfall games were amazing.
After APEX Legends came out, I feel EA used up most of their Good Karma that they had built in the past.
The Star Wars Jedi games are genuinely good self-contained no bs single player games.
I can’t comment on anything else.
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish18 days
Self-contained? Don’t they require a verified online account and an internet connection?
I’m referring to the way the game lets you earn everything. There is no upsell after you buy the game. If you want something from the game, you get it by playing.
- Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
I don’t believe so, but don’t quote me on that, haven’t played either in a very long time.
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish18 days
(EA has a habit of adding such requirements many years after the game was made, btw).
- NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
I was gonna throw Star Wars Outlaws in there, but surprisingly that one was ubisoft.
- FippleStone@aussie.zoneEnglish15 days
They are incredible, but they came out two decades ago and everyone who worked on them is long gone, nothing morally gray about pirating them…
What games are you thinking of?
Fallen Order is 2019 and Survivor is 2024. I’m specifically commenting on recent EA games.
Star Wars Jedi is the title of this most recent series by Respawn, currently with two entries.
- Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
I got Madden last year so I could get my kid into football. Figured if there was a video game, he’d be interested in learning more about the game, and it worked. Having said that, I’m not buying any new ones for updated rosters, so they won’t be seeing another dime from me.
- adhdsergio@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Battlefield 6 is a new one that comes to mind - heard good things, might try it in the “perpetual demo” mode
- caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
I was looking at that recently as well, but saw the reviews are at mixed now…
- 18 days
“We’re going to have AI write all the games now”
~ some exec- chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
They’re not a game company anymore. It’s getting the Toys R Us treatment. They’re a debt vehicle. They’re gonna borrow against its value, place all the debt into EA while pocketing the cash, and let it die.
If we’re lucky, they’ll sell off the studios and IP before cutting it loose.
- 18 days
In this whole ordeal that has been EA … I can’t remember a single instance where they tried to do the right thing by listening to the consumer, or employees for that matter.
It’s amazing they are still around even. Die quicker pls.
- Polisheocket@lemmy.zipEnglish18 days
They own the rights to madden and college game day, those two alone can keep the doors open
Oligarchs oligarching. Every “publisher” and “developer” is firing everyone and are gonna very quickly vanish once it’s remembered that perpetual motion is impossible.
- buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
Private Equity 101, “buy” a business using borrowed money, put all the debt on the company you “bought”, slash costs, sell off assets, have the company declare bankruptcy and take all the debt with it, rince and repeat… Profit.
Nobody has ever been able to explain to me why this is legal
- buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
And as if that wasn’t an insult to the middle class, people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can borrow against their stock holdings as if they were real assets, yet never be taxed on the value. But if you borrow against the value of your house, YOU get taxed on that value.
It doesn’t though it’s just another way of lying about the math. Line goes up because it’s doesn’t actually represent what it’s supposed to.
- Dadifer@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Can’t wait for them to destroy it like they destroyed their golf league.
- D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish18 days
People are still buying EA:s unfinished games? Wow.
I admit that they got me a few times, but I quickly learned not to buy from them again.
- Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish17 days
Sims is also an absolute juggernaut in very different circles from Madden and FIFA
- Jyrdano@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
My only hope is EA dies soon and some other devs take up and resurrect ME and DA
- Onyxonblack@piefed.socialEnglish18 days
Honestly like why? I don’t believe either property really needs to continue. Why must everything be an IP… those games are OLD… the good ones at least. Let it die.
Mass Effect was really just Bioware not wanting to pay for Star Wars again. Why not do the same and make a new Mass Effect worthy IP?
The trilogy told the story. Andromeda didnt really add much.
- veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Yea, there’s still so much to that universe besides the whole bad guy ending the galaxy stick.
- 17 days
Unfortunately I’m pretty sure all this will lead to now they they aren’t beholden to quarterly growth but rather can become a sustained money printer is cutting anything except the sims, battlefield, and their sports cash cows, and recycling those every year even more than they do now, since people regularly buy those every time a new version (or in the case of the sims expansion) is released
- 18 days
Someone should make a Freespace RPG. It’s the same story, but since there wasn’t a Freespace 3 they never screwed up the ending.
- BC_viper@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Yah, i expect not to buy anymore EA games. They had a good run i guess.
Mind you I haven’t played many anyway lately.
