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[–] 112 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 80 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    This is great news, soon there will be no EA!

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "We're going to have AI write all the games now"
    ~ some exec

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago

    Oligarchs oligarching. Every “publisher” and “developer” is firing everyone and are gonna very quickly vanish once it’s remembered that perpetual motion is impossible.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Nobody has ever been able to explain to me why this is legal

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    Can't wait for them to destroy it like they destroyed their golf league.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    The Star Wars Jedi games are genuinely good self-contained no bs single player games.

    I can't comment on anything else.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Self-contained? Don’t they require a verified online account and an internet connection?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Battlefield 6 is a new one that comes to mind - heard good things, might try it in the "perpetual demo" mode

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    EA sucks ass, hopefully this is the beginning of the end.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    EA, it's in the grave.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 months ago

    Wouldn't that be just the CEO, then?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    So which studios will die this time?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    I'm shocked... /s

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Just trimming some fat (and a leg or two)

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    They'll only make sports games, that's the reliable cash cow.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Been playing Electronic Arts games since the 1980’s.

    Even if they are a shit company, Nice knowing ya.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    My only hope is EA dies soon and some other devs take up and resurrect ME and DA

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    They didn't waste any time, did they?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Last EA game I played was Skate and that shit was free.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    🤞please sell off BioWare so i can play Mass Effect again.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Nothing’s stopping you from playing mass effect.

    Why does everyone want sequels so badly? Are you all so attached to your nostalgia?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The majority of the series was great, but ME3 left a fair bit of unanswered questions at the end and Andromeda only added them.

    I'd want a sequel because personally the series still feels unfinished

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Trump fail son in law and journalist murderer

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Once again, the fucking suits.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    And nothing of real value to gamers will be lost.

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  • Fuck EA they've been shit forever.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    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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