I find it hard to believe that anyone at EA thought that Warfighter was going sell a reasonable number of units.
Electronic Arts Suffers $45 Million Loss
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I hate how people rush to be gleeful at the sight of EA floundering. Many people, including a close member of my family, make their livings working for EA. They feed their families and pay the mortgage working for EA. They get up every morning and put in a full day's hard work working for EA.
Don't like EA's games? Don't buy them, no-one has a gun to your head forcing you. Just be mature enough to have cast the vote with your wallet, and refrain from smugly declaring 'wel its cos their dicks arnt they LOL'.
You make the strike against EA by not buying the games, and maybe that will cause a change in their practices. Gloating over what will probably result in a load of layoffs? That's just cold.
Don't like EA's games? Don't buy them, no-one has a gun to your head forcing you. Just be mature enough to have cast the vote with your wallet, and refrain from smugly declaring 'wel its cos their dicks arnt they LOL'.
You make the strike against EA by not buying the games, and maybe that will cause a change in their practices. Gloating over what will probably result in a load of layoffs? That's just cold.
I think I love you.thebobmaster said:
All right. As long as you stop acting smug and superior to EA, saying they deserve to go out of business completely because they make games you don't like.bringer of illumination said:
You mean for the same quarter that the US economy shrunk slightly? Because the quarter that EA is reporting for wasn't a great economy.Strazdas said:
Also I think people need to put some things in perspective. Video games are a luxury product, they're one of the first things to go when belts need tightening. Especially the AAA releases that EA thrives on.
I'll talk loudly so you can hear me from your high horse.bringer of illumination said:
1. It's nobody's 'responsibility' to feel sorry for others. It's called empathy, and when we see people who might lose their jobs, it's a valid response to say 'that sucks'. Get the hell over yourself calling hard working people drones, and place the blame where it actually lies - with the people who make the decisions. If someone who makes absurd decisions and pisses people off loses their job, then that would be justified. But that never happens.
2. It's not a non-argument, it's just one you don't like and disagree with. It's perfectly valid to say 'this is bad news for this reason'.
3. Again, empathy. We have it. It seems like a conspicuous snipe from you about moral superiority, as there was no mention of that from our side - seems to me that someone's aware he's being spiteful, and is lashing out at us 'smug' people.
Kirov Reporting said:
Wallet ? Dude, be resonable. Half of these whiners are voting by "MOM, CAN I HAVE THIS ??", or are sitting in theirs parents basement, unemployed pretending to be cool on the net.
I simply don't believe any true adult would speak such nonsense like 'hating EA'. Seriosly. You hate them because they've bought some studios only to close them ? Well, welcome to the real world kids, it's called "takeover" and it's been around... like forever. Nobody forced previous owners to sell, so take your rage to them. What ? You think i.e. Bioware was lacking funds before EA era? Or just owners got greedy and sold the company to have a new lambo or two ? Whose fault is that ? EA's for buying ? Seriously guys, Game industry is INDUSTRY, deal with it. You don't like what EA produces - don't buy from them. End of story. I don't like Starbucks coffee, but I don't go and rant about it every time I see the damn thing.
so US is the only place where EA sell games?DarkArk said:
Games are also a cheap entertainment option. People tightening belts may rather buy a 60 dollar game than go on a 600 dollar vacation if money becomes scarce. Videogames have the highest hour/dollar rate of all entertainment and as such it is the cheap mans luxury item of choice. drop in luxury consumption does not always mean drop in videogame consumption.
and im pretty sure ?A will not learn from it and tries a even more ridicules way to piss customers off.
For someone who supposedly studies the economy you sure don't seem to know that much about it. You also didn't answer my points so do that. Hint: the US is a quarter of the global economy.Strazdas said:
Games are also sold predominately to the under 35 population, namely the people who have been having an absolutely terrible time in the current situation.
[sub]EA played by Bart in this scene.[/sub]
Seriously, how do you loose that much money!? Most people won't see that much cash in their lives, and EA managed to piss it into the wind.
Is it ? Lets think about it for a moment: don't ask "why EA bought them", but "why were they sold in the first place" ? There are several possibilities:Blablahb said:
1) "magic" is gone, so lets turn what's left of it into the money. That means that the management lost interest in making games and "forcing it" won't give you a good game
2) studio was on financial downhill, so it would go bankrupt in the near future
3) The vital crew members left for whatever reasons (need of smth new, money, creative differences)
4) Owners are getting greedy and if not bought they would became EA/Activision etc. themself
My point is: you're not selling dev studio if everyone's enjoying they're work, earning lots of money etc.etc., so there was probably smth wrong with these companies, even if we didn't know about it yet.
Try to think about EA as carnivore - killing weakened, so others can have more space to exist. You can't simply blame them for what they are. We're slowly loosing Bioware ? So what, we've got CDProjectRed, Obsidian and others relatively new players. Cheer up.
Quick, say variations of 'fuck' a few more times, you don't appear to be enough of a renegade badass as it is.bringer of illumination said:
There's no point in discussing this, because quite clearly our viewpoints are incompatible. If you want to celebrate a company losing money, knock yourself out- honestly, if I didn't have family who worked there, it's quite likely I wouldn't care half as much as I do about the fate of the place. However, I do, and as such if everyone gets fired and EA closes forever YAYAYAYAAWESOMEHYPERBOLE then that would have a significant impact.
Also, to address your tortuous analogy; Yes, you can damn sure feel sad that there's a kid who lost a parent. Yes, the father would be facing justice. The end (arguably) does justify the means, but that doesn't mean the kid isn't a victim too, and regardless if the father made the decision to commit murder (by the way, get over yourself with that comparison) the kid is still the one who has been made to suffer. Would you wave a 'hang the murderer' sign in the kid's face?
Good. Excellent.
I really want to play The Sims 3, SimCity and Battlefield3, but I will absolutely not associate with EA. I morally refuse to do business with them, and this has only vindicated my actions.
Keep voting with your wallets. It is working.
This shit again. I don't accept that a shitty company with immoral and stupid practices should stay alive just because of the people who might lose their JEEERRRRRRRBS over its collapse. Companies fall and die due to shitty policies and methods all the damn time. It's how the business world works.
Goddamnit. All people care about is the here and now. As long as people have their precious fucking jobs that someone else should apparently provide for them, they don't care about any stitch of progress.
I really want to play The Sims 3, SimCity and Battlefield3, but I will absolutely not associate with EA. I morally refuse to do business with them, and this has only vindicated my actions.
Keep voting with your wallets. It is working.
JERBS JERBS JERBS JERBS.thebobmaster said:
This shit again. I don't accept that a shitty company with immoral and stupid practices should stay alive just because of the people who might lose their JEEERRRRRRRBS over its collapse. Companies fall and die due to shitty policies and methods all the damn time. It's how the business world works.
Goddamnit. All people care about is the here and now. As long as people have their precious fucking jobs that someone else should apparently provide for them, they don't care about any stitch of progress.
I'm surprised that EA thought that WARFIGHTER now was a bad idea.
It looked mediocre even by a CoD gaming community's low standards.
It looked mediocre even by a CoD gaming community's low standards.
