Adorkably's Travis Conklin writes:
"It’s become harder and harder to commit to the purchase a lot of items these days due to constant sales, more so video games in recent months. Some people can wait it out for a sale in order to save a couple bucks while others commit instantly, and honestly it feels as though those who jump in early are getting the short end of the stick. Last week Gamestop put SSX, a two week old snowboarding game, on sale for 20 dollars off the regular price. Now this week they have the recently released Fifa Street down to 40 dollars."
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!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
I almost always wait until a game drops to $40 or less now. Now because it drops in price so fast but because so many games take months for patches to "fix" them.
Why pay $60 up front and get a worse experience than if you had waited 6 months.
Can't say i agree with the sentiment of the author . Nothing against cheaper games obviously ... but i doubt you can get rid that easily of the "i gotta get the game at release" mentality from many folks .
It just means a market split between those that just can't wait , and those even more careful about their wallet .
Not to mention that some people , even if most likely not the majority , feels compelled to support a particular game or studio .
I wait for the deals for every game. After buying Dragon Age 1 and the DLC when it came out, I added it up. Then Impulse had a deal for DA and all DLC for $25.00. So that will never happen again..............
I now wait for every title this generation. Between the split pre-order content, and the DLC that is already on the disc the best bet nowadays is simply to wait it out. Wait for the game of the year edition. Wait for the price reduction etc.
This generation has taught the smart gamer that those who wait get MUCH more than those that jump in on day 1.
BTW for context I used to buy day 1 for titles I wanted. Due to the increase to 59 dollars and the issues mentioned above jumping in day 1 is for suckers.
I just posted this comment about why do people pre order. Its a waste of money.