Electronic Arts: "We're On Our Way Back"

[PopcornAvenger]

Yes, you gotta love their new "online model" and marketing strategy

- cut development budgets and time
- force developers to publish shortened, barebones, or downright bad games
- use their "online model" to nickle and dime us for DLC so they get recurring revenue. The beancounters love that idea.

The only thing that's gonna stop these suits and marketdroids is us. Hitting them in their fat wallets.
Day 1 DLC is the devil.
I refuse to preorder anything these days.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I hope you die in a fire and eat shit in hell for what you did to Bioware, EA. You do not deserve to make a comeback.

And yet they are making a comeback despite your pathetic whining.

Yep. Due to assholes who keep on buying their games.

 

[robinkom]

They won't even mention their complete name, Electronic Arts, because they know it's complete bullshit now. Referencing the Extra Credit video about their past, I was there for that, they were an amazing company in the 80s and early-90s. "We see farther" really meant something. They made strides to not be like other developers/publishers and now they have become the very thing they originally avoided. Trip Hawkins has long since left the company and the soulless bastards sucking the dicks of the shareholders are more than happy to bastardize everything left that was good about the company. Yay, greed.

Activision is no different but I won't get into them here. It's just sad to see two pioneers in the industry becoming the very thing they were opposed to at the start. Not saying making money is bad, I'm saying the ways they conduct themselves in earning it are bad.

 

[kebab4you]

I believe you EA once you stop doing shitty port to the PC, so far you have just been awful to us PC users.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I hope you die in a fire and eat shit in hell for what you did to Bioware, EA. You do not deserve to make a comeback.

And yet they are making a comeback despite your pathetic whining.

Yep. Due to assholes who keep on buying their games.

That might be because they find them fun.

And if some people find them fun then everyone else should shut the fuck up and keep their opinions to themselves.

 

[gpfault]

"It's kind of like the game industry version of Magneto: whether it's good or evil depends entirely upon what month it is and which alternative universe you happen to be trapped in." With that line you have transformed a story I would normally just skip over into something I actually read. Nice job Andy!

 

[littlewisp]

Wait, so did they realize they were being evil and are trying to be good now or not? I couldn't tell if they were speaking financially wise or morally. . .

 

[penguindude42]

Actions are greater than words.

Well said. =) Mind you if EA are going to end up as the only remaining large rival to Activision I know who's side I'm on.

CAPTCHA: bortabl i'th (wtf)

Haha, that Captcha sounds like something the Deep Ones would say. "Bortabl i'th!"

 

[godofallu]

EA's library has been really impressing me lately with future and recent titles

Dead space 2
Crysis 2
Dragon age 2
Bad company 2 and battlefield 3
Portal 2 (console retail publisher)
Alice: Madness Returns
Mass effect 3
Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Secret World

For every one of those they have 20 shit games that they lose money on. That's why they keep posting losses each quarter.

 

[Serioli]

Wait, so did they realize they were being evil and are trying to be good now or not? I couldn't tell if they were speaking financially wise or morally. . .

They were running an evil playthrough but their brother has got the controller while they've nipped to the loo.
They're gonna be pissed when they get back though. 'What the hell, where did all these paragon points come from? I didn't authorise a sensible ad campaign...'

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I hope you die in a fire and eat shit in hell for what you did to Bioware, EA. You do not deserve to make a comeback.

And yet they are making a comeback despite your pathetic whining.

Yep. Due to assholes who keep on buying their games.

That might be because they find them fun.

And if some people find them fun then everyone else should shut the fuck up and keep their opinions to themselves.

Sounds good to me.

Not to me.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I hope you die in a fire and eat shit in hell for what you did to Bioware, EA. You do not deserve to make a comeback.

And yet they are making a comeback despite your pathetic whining.

Yep. Due to assholes who keep on buying their games.

That might be because they find them fun.

And if some people find them fun then everyone else should shut the fuck up and keep their opinions to themselves.

Sounds good to me.

Not to me.

Yeah well no one cares what you think.

No one cares about what you think as well.