Gamespot: EA is hoping you think the Medal of Honor and Battlefield series are drastically different so you’ll buy them both.
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.
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.
Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson stated in a recent EA Earnings Call, that the next Battlefield "it is going to be another tremendous live service.”
Another? ANOTHER?
Is he honestly trying to make out like the last Battlefield was a huge success, not just as a game but as a live service game? I'm sure these guys live in their own echo chambers, they are so far removed from reality or they just like talking out of their arse trying to rewrite history.
Also why say such a tone deaf statement when you know the state of live service games at the minute and how many gamers feel about them. Bigging up the next BF game as live service does not give me any excitement or hype.
This is nothing too new
https://www.eurogamer.net/e...
They had plans of a universe of live service games
Also these studios made 2042 there is no new massive team its the same team
https://www.eurogamer.net/t...
Well same team minus the seattle boys that were canned
https://gamerant.com/ea-bat...
This is all again same news different year but it seems very few remember what happened before covid.
At least they put car freshner trees up their asses to think smelling their own farts smells good at this point to be so out of touch.
... or just MILKING fatigue.
You buy a new game, mostly for the MP, and within months you need to buy new maps to stay up to date online if you're part of a group of friends or community.
This quickly means groups will fall apart, and those left behind might leave the MP altogether out of frustration.
Then, 1 year or 2 years later, there's already a new game in the series, and it all starts over again.
I don't think people are tired of the gameplay, It's always fun to run around and shoot people (in games). It's a nice digital game of 'tag', sometimes combined with a little 'hide and seek'. It's fun.
It's how the developers/publishers are trying to milk their games, that's turning people off.
TBH, because of the current trend in this genre, I feel other developers/publishers are missing a huge opportunity to secure a huge market, if they can come up with a great online shooter for PSN/XBLA that's affordable (thus many people will buy it) and if they could refrain from extreme greed. Just offer a new map for 1 dollar or 100msp or whatever. That way almost all the player will update and keep playing the game, you will sell and keep selling many more copies, and it can last 2-3 years or even longer!
I was hoping EA would do that with Battlefield 1943, but sadly there's been absolutely no support for that great game whatsoever.
Oh , I was thinking if people got free maps for shooters they would buy more shooters. I see what you mean.
Hit grabbing story photo much?
On topic: I'm fatigued with everyone talking about shooter fatigue.
The last MoH game had a good single player mode and although every single player FPS is scripted,I still enjoy playing them. The mutli-player on MoH sucked! For my money you can't beat the VS mode of a battlefield game no matter what edition it is.
As far as "fatigue" goes it seems more like burnout with a new CoD title every year that plays just like the last one did. Don't get me wrong.I like the CoD's single player,but NOT the VS modes.
As someone said above,the words "Milking IT" come to mind when talk of a BF4 coming soon. I would rather have some more DLC for BF3 past march of 2013 and Save BF4 for a launch title for the PS4/XB720.