Developing Asian countries with low income citizens are charged more than the developed world for all things video games. In a place where a single video game costs an entire month's pay, is the industry setting itself up for piracy? Does making gaming such a luxury shoot the industry in the foot?
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!"
Interesting. I never agree with piracy, but I see why the writer asks the question.
I remember seeing consoles when I was on vacation in Mexico. The prices were absolutely insane!
While I do agree that the companies are trying to make as much money as they can, we have to understand that each country has its own tax's laws that make the price go even further up....So, its not ONLY the industry, but the governments of these countries being their greedy selves.
Here in Brazil, for example, gaming devices have absurd taxes imbued in their final prices, so much that when launched he price goes up to 10x the final price already converted in BR Real. There are some loby already to make the taxes less abusive on the soft and hardware wise, but god knows how long it will take them to pass...
Piracy is never the solution. It may be a paliative for a problem, and as such, it never resolves it.
I still have friends who look in astonishment whenever I told them price of games that I buy every month. Although they don't cost as much as a month's wage but they are still considered a luxury. Last year I told a friend about the cost of a genuine Windows 7 that I planned to buy for BF3. He barked at me that it would be better to give that money to my parents instead of wasting it on genuine product. Honestly, I was saddened to hear that. Another friend kept "borrowing" my genuine games for year. Account based Steam and Origin DRM rendered his habit useless though. I never told (or ever will) him about Steam's ability to copy and paste folders to any PC.