The Mass [Layoff] Effect
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This is great news, soon there will be no EA!
Perfect timing and a fitting fate, considering they are now owned by blood oil kings and nazi's
EA died a long time ago.
It think they were talking about the undead monster one.
Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe the last thing they would do is sell off the up to better firms.
"We're going to have AI write all the games now"
~ some exec
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.
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.
Oligarchs oligarching. Every “publisher” and “developer” is firing everyone and are gonna very quickly vanish once it’s remembered that perpetual motion is impossible.
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
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 makes rich people richer
Can't wait for them to destroy it like they destroyed their golf league.
I 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.
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.
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.
I don't believe so, but don't quote me on that, haven't played either in a very long time.
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...
I was gonna throw Star Wars Outlaws in there, but surprisingly that one was ubisoft.
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.
Battlefield 6 is a new one that comes to mind - heard good things, might try it in the "perpetual demo" mode
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.
The sports games keep the lights on.
So which studios will die this time?
Hopefully they will combine the company with Neom so a future romantic poet finds the ruins amid the sands and wonders at the hubris of it.
Fuck yourself EA. Wouldn't buy any more shit from you. Actually I don't buy us-american stuff at all anymore. Except indie-games.
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.
Been playing Electronic Arts games since the 1980’s.
Even if they are a shit company, Nice knowing ya.
My only hope is EA dies soon and some other devs take up and resurrect ME and DA
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.
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
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.
🤞please sell off BioWare so i can play Mass Effect again.
Nothing’s stopping you from playing mass effect.
Why does everyone want sequels so badly? Are you all so attached to your nostalgia?
I remember in the before times. When EA made decent games and we were all young, full of hope for the future, life and love were new.
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