I don’t understand how what EA does isn’t just a straight up crime. There has to be some kind of checks and balances that prevent a corporation from buying another profitable corporation and making it unprofitable on purpose almost immediately every single time.
nah, their sports titles still print money and Battlefield is huge. This round of layoffs is exactly what was coming as they were going to laser focus on the things that print money like the sports titles, apex legends and battlefield. Everything else is going to get the shit end of the stick.
they have been trying to get into gaming and to diversify their business for years. Plus sports titles and battlefield+apex does actually make money. Why would they pull out when the thing they bought makes money?
While disruptive, and developers like Bioware getting shafted absolutely sucks, hopefully EA will sooner or later fuck off from the rest of the industry, and leave it to people who aren't quite as scummy.
I don't care if they rip off the idiots who play sports games these days, if they leave the rest of us alone.
EA unfortunately are not really that different from majority. All corporate sucks, EA has just been one of the first to show how much they suck in gaming world and the infamy stuck.
I personally haven't played it since Battlefield 3, which must have been what 15 years ago. But they keep making it and according to a search BF6 sold 7 million copies in 3 days which doesn't seem like dead to me. $420m in 3 days is really not dead no matter how you slice it.
yeah and they made their budget back in the first 3-4 days. And then the game kept being sold and now is roughly at 20m, so they made $1.2billion in revenue from one game. And that's just direct game sales. Add in the the money they make by selling in-game cosmetics.
Many people, especially those in charge, will judge a company by their last game or games. BioWare's last 3 games were Anthem, ME Andromeda and DA Veilguard.
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u/HankTuggins 7h ago
I don’t understand how what EA does isn’t just a straight up crime. There has to be some kind of checks and balances that prevent a corporation from buying another profitable corporation and making it unprofitable on purpose almost immediately every single time.