The veteran designer believes the industry is far from realizing games' potential; he also says EA's Sim City server problems were "inexcusable."
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
"That was basically inexcusable, that you charge somebody $60 for a game and they can't play it. I can understand the outrage"
This is the single most poignant statement I've ever heard form a game developer in the current market. DRM is going to end up either killing off a lot of possibilities for gamers, or it will effectively limit what we are able to enjoy.
It's almost a censoring of what we're able to play.
DRM is one thing but games have single handedly pushed Hollywood in the right direction. Has anybody noticed the quality of blockbusters made lately and how much they are influenced by games. Iron Man, Star Trek and even cinematography in Lincoln which looked very much like Red Dead in places. I think games, and more importantly gamers, expect more for their buck and this has pushed quality way up. Capcom and the DLC fiasco shows scars from attempting to rip gamers off, my advice to developers is to release 'full' games straight up with NO day 1 patches. They used to do this feat at previous generations. I didn't buy the injustice DLC this time, bought Mortal Kombat as it seemed like they produced the DLC after the full game, Injustice feels just like an 'Injustice' as they obviously just held back 4 characters. Batgirl was leaked, what a joke!
The video game industry is at a crossroads right now and I would love too see the industry rise to meet the challenge. I don't think it will. Right now a very vicious element is at the lead of the video game industry, an element that is only concerned with cheating people out of as much money as possible.
It would be nice if the creative talent could gain some form of control over the course of the industry. Honestly, I think the vampiric companies currently leading the industry are going to burn out consumers with terrible, generic games and then the industry will crash when consumers lose all faith in the industry as a whole. The industry will crash like it did back in the 80s and I really don't have a problem with that. Maybe then these companies will stop trying to suck their consumers dry with pointless dlc and crap games.