EA Sports recently announced it will no longer be producing paper instruction booklets to its games. The decision was made to be more environmentally friendly and to reduce printing costs. And for those worrying “How am I supposed to play the game without instruction?”, don’t sweat it. All instruction manuals will now be digital available for you to view on the game disc itself.
This is a change that’s long overdue. Who read the paper instruction manuals in games anyway?
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.
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.
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.
"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.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
But I am sad about that because they always smell really good to me and I like to sniff them when I get a new game.
I guess ill have to sniff them while I can. Ummm crysis 2 manual smells nice....all nine pages of it.
I`ve always liked manuals. Not only do I consult them when needed, but they add value to your game. My collection is worth literally hundreds more because my games are complete with manuals.
This day was always bound to happen though. If there are ways to cut costs, then they will be used. No need to fight it.
saving trees my foot EA not using any paper manuals isn't gonna save any trees the same amount of trees will still be cut down annually regardless
only green this is is saving is the millions EA is gonna save from this
im not saving anything from this but EA is gonna save millions
sooo why is this a good thing???
in the end i really couldn't care less though the EA manuals were always black and white and like 3 pages long so its not a big deal
the only manuals i actually care about are the big/colorful nice ones that some of the publishers use
They need to atleast keep a single sheet with the controls on it to refer to.
If I open the case and there is absolutely nothing on the left side I will be pissed.
40 pages isn't necessary but something like the Crysis 2 manual (8 pages in black ink, the controls and basic explantion of game features/modes) is perfect.
What happened to the days of the manual tell you a story?
The manuals of the old days has some 3 pages of story before you started the game. This was great for the car ride home from the game store...
Now we want the whole game in graphic clarity with all the story in Play time with a more cut scenes.