EA has methodically destroyed pieces of my childhood.

God forbid they would do something with a story.

RIP BioWare, you will be missed.

I will never buy from EA again. Not that I can remember the last time I did...

Here’s hoping Larian steps up again with their next creation.

It's almost hilarious to see the steam next gongshow, juxtaposed with all these studio closures.

Someone made a comment recently in another thread about the prevalence of shitty bootleg/noname games all over the place back in the 80s, and how nintendo started putting a gold seal of authenticity on their games as a kind of quality assurance for gamers. That's what game studios are now, to some extent, for me, with the new flood of AI garbage. Killing off studios known for making quality products is a terrible strategy.

It sucks to lose all these companies, but it's kind of been coming for a long time, the whole gaming industry is basically resetting. Going back to millions of small companies instead of thousands or hundreds of big companies. The companies got too big and too slow. Things changed, and they couldn't keep up. Not to mention so much money wasted, or worse handed directly to CEOs or other upper management.

Despite all the big companies dying, gaming as a whole is still great. Besides having to filter out games that put AI in charge, the rest of the games nowadays are actually doing awesome innovative stuff instead of "game we liked +1". As much as I like when both exist, it's predicated on not wasting money, and ideally at least some new ideas in the sequel.

I hate EA as much (or more) as the next guy, but let's not pretend here: guns and football sell.

EA is not a company of gamers. They're a company of corpos. They follow the money.

Similar things have been happening in the movie industry. Why is every studio pumping out predictable rehashed trash? Because it sells.

Everyone on this largely esoteric forum is probably already voting with their wallets. We aren't the ones buying these vaccuous games, but the market is clearly there. It's much harder to fix that issue.

Guns and football are fine, and everything else is under the microscope

So business as usual?

Arabia-shmarabia. EA would burn and shit everything around anyway even without SA.

As long as the most money comes from idiots that buy FIFA every year, and from idiots that buy microtransactions, this is what we will get.

But Mass effect has guns. It was basically a Shooter

I don't really game much anymore bc of life and sadness but I just launched SWKOTOR for the first time since 2012 and forgot it was a BioWare game. Its so good.

Fuck EA

"Saudis EAt Shit."

I mean...idc. Let them rise and fall. I'm just not interested in this kind of stuff anymore. We're still talking about how much this company sucks. I wish we wouldn't. Even the constant discussions about how bad they are do them a favor. We live in a world where all publicity is good publicity. Sometimes you forget these people even exist if you set your life up the way you want to and don't get sucked into shit.

This is the opportunity for 2K to revive their hockey franchise and do something amazing with it. The market (and the ea hate) is ripe for it.

2K isn't a spectacular company either (hello microtransactions). But I'm just saying this is their opportunity if they were smart enough to take it.

If everyone is drooling over GTA 6 as if it was the coming of the messiah, then why blame corporations for axing games that don't make money.

The majority of people are after what newest shiniest thing everyone else are talking about. And most Indy games don't make a profit or can barely recoup the expanses and pay the bills. Support the indies or stop pearl clutching

The only good news here is the return of Fight Night. There are depressingly few boxing games out there, and even fewer good ones.

I miss the days of sports leagues licensing multiple games in the same genre so that players had a choice. I don't play many sports games now but i grew up with them and my friends still play

My biggest concern is the Sims, given how female and LGBTQ+ friendly that game and its community are. That's a staple franchise for a lot off people who aren't really served by a lot of traditional gaming genres