EA is falling apart before our very eyes

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[@gamedude412]

FC sales this year were 7% higher then last year game with a world cup( big football event) to puff it sales, Being +7% year to year was "grossly under performing" to EA.FC didnt flop it sold a 107% but Ea had some insane internal projection for it Like the Dragon age 10m copies projection for VG

[@OG_McLovin]

I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to figure out you and Luke Stephens are different dudes lol

[@CulturedNeon-u4w]

Nobody wants to buy this crap either bro.

[@EXEMPT8894]

Mr legendary Drops, where did you acquire the berserk shirt

[@boxfoxscoot1614]

anthem deserved better the jetpack was amazing

[@christaylor7079]

The funniest part is that Dragon Age’s failure completely caught them off guard. Even a casual glance at the writing and design of that game by anyone remotely normal should have revealed hundreds of red flags

[@davideassis87]

The game is the "normal" of the people behind it and it's the "normal" they're trying to force upon us. Their cluelessness only shows how their objective was to do activism through the game and not do an actual good, fun work. That's pure Woke in action.

[@nekoheiko]

@@davideassis87 The game meant a lot to them, its basically their self insert and what they wanna tell to their parents. No joke that "Soooo I'm non-binary" is 100% what they wanna tell their parents/loved ones so they saw this game on EXTREMELY rose tinted glasses. They can't find fault in their perfect game because it is them, to find fault in their game is to find fault in themselves. Or that's what I believe in anyways

[@vissermatt1058]

there was a leak that came out that someone high up in EA considered the success or failure of the game immaterial, it was probably going to sell well enough and that all they were going to care about. it wasnt supposed to nor needed to "sell gang busters". guess the COMPLETE and total flop that it turned out to be was a wake up call

[@Skegfromcraigslist]

The game director was the ultimate red flag

[@NeilPower]

That is the effect of living inside your own bubble.

[@LolnogoogleNotgivingyoumyname]

I actually met one of EA's devs who works on monetization a few weeks back. Dude didn't work on games, just monetization of them. EA doesn't make games anymore. They make credit card readers.

[@TheHollowBlade]

This. When i learned that studios were bringing in professional psychologists for shit like matchmaking and mtx. Thats when i knew video games were no longer about the hobby, the art and the fun but solely about the profits and nothing else. Seeing devs who are passionate about the work and simply want to make the most badass fun game they can. Thats what its all about. I see that and my wallet starts to open up. Obviously a devs passion does not guarantee a good game. but it sure as hell improves the chances of it being at least good enough. Cant wait to see these companies close their doors and be replaced by companies that can bring us what we want as gamers. Beautiful, smart, engaging, fun games, games that can reflect the passion behind them. No more souless garbage corporate slop.

[@allthenamesiwantedweretaken]

@@TheHollowBlade > studios were bringing in professional psychologists for shit like matchmaking Not just that, but designing and then patenting entire multiplayer matchmaking systems explicitly to match players who haven't spent a lot of money with other players who have spent a lot of money and are wearing cosmetics the free player doesn't have (yes, it will literally check their account and check what cosmetics you have so that you're matched with someone that has something you don't have), purely because of the psychological impact of "woah, that guy looks cool, I may just buy that cosmetic myself". They *literally* code their matchmaking to make money, not to match players with similarly skilled players. (This is an actual patent under Activision Publishing Inc. with the patent application code 14/712,566, titled "System And Method For Driving Microtransactions In Multiplayer Video Games" alongside other Multiplayer Matchmaking system patents).

[@cc_256]

of course they dont work on games anymore. literally releasing same game every year just changing skins and people pay them 60$+ for it anyway lmao

[@AstralAnubes]

I mean that’s just one guy, but yes they focus on the wrong stuff. Not enough passion in the games just ways to monetize & put liberal politics in them. 😂

[@BraveSirRobbinn]

Yep, sure you did.

[@cci9459]

27:09 I worked on FIFA for a few iterations and what I can say is that back in 2014, FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) was generating between 250k-300k PER DAY. One day it eas under 200k and emails started popping up from the highest level for immediate investigation if something is wrong on our side that prevents players from spending money. Its an incredible cash machine, always was. Cant even imagine the numbers in later years after I left.

[@LegendaryDrops]

Which is why I'm even more surprised as to why the stock hasn't fallen further. It's clear that a lot of their revenue is generated from Ultimate Team. If the sports games pump at half capacity and Apex is hemorrhaging then they are way over valued.

[@northeu]

Nobody bought points in FIFA 14, you were forced to buy coins from dodgy Chinese sites because you screwed the market

[@gellister]

EA has survived so much longer than they have any right to. Like stepping on a dog turd, you just keep rinsing and rinsing and it's still there.

[@ganggang3788]

they'll never have to worry about money strictly off their sports division. Imagine taking a $6B loss and still existing.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

I like sports game, but I hate people buying exactly the same sh!t every year that I stopped playing them out of pure spite after FIFA12. EA can crash and burn with their pile of money

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

[@macrograms]

Perfect analogy for EA. then they take off the shoe and sell it to people after adding $40 for the unique smell.

[@SlapstickStooge]

The ones really keeping EA alive are the dumb NFL fanboys who buy Madden each year, they're not even casual gamers, they buy it cause football.

[@mr_clean575]

I am convinced that one of the biggest hazards to innovation, quality, and customer awareness is making a company public on the stock market.

[@ThatGuyKazz]

100% As soon as a company becomes publicly traded they are now obligated to maximize short term profits for their share holders because they now have fiduciary duty. Fiduciary duty means you must make the minimum viable product because spending more to make a better product that will likely preform only marginally better as a result is unnecessary spending. Fiduciary duty is antithetical to making a quality product that takes 3-5 years or more to bring to market. The publicly traded model can work and deliver quality products on shorter timelines but average investors don't understand the development cycles of video games and every year that a game spends in development is just something those investors view as unnecessary expenditures.

[@mr_clean575]

@ Totally agree

[@no3ironman11100]

Carefull now! That's controversial. You might be a communist who doesn't understand the drive for progress the stocks give.

[@OG_McLovin]

Yup. Once there's an IPO or a buyout, it's usually a matter of time.

[@BrandoB2557]

​@ThatGuyKazz No matter how complex they decide to dress the problem, it can be boiled down quite simply; Greed. That's it. That's the factor that ruins _everything._

[@chaosgyro]

The modern practice of hiring CEOs like pro sports coaches has a lot to do with the ills of these giant, publicly traded companies. These aren't people who care about the health of their business or their industry. They only care to do whatever it takes to hit certain targets, get their yearly bonuses, and pump up spreadsheets for the investor calls before cutting and running. It's a big game of passing the potato to the next guy, and trying not to be the one holding it when it explodes. It's what has happened to gaming, movies, retail, even telecom and utility companies. If these places started promoting from within and looking to the long term, then we'd see a massive resurgence in good business practices rather than predatory ones.

[@pridefall3304]

The MBA has done irreparable damage to our entire way of life and I wish more people would talk about it

[@combinecommando001]

@@pridefall3304 This can only go on for so long, eventually the shoddy tower will come tumbling down, many will suffer as a result but it will crumble all the same and the discussion cannot be avoided then.

[@robertbeisert3315]

​@@pridefall3304what's wrong with driving out the talent that built the company, outsourcing all the jobs that would create more such talent, and increasing the price before flipping it to someone else hoping to do the same?

[@garythecyclingnerd6219]

Obviously? Like, the objective of a corporation is to maximize shareholder value. Nobody in the C suite or shareholders care about the product. This has been true for over 100 years.

[@garythecyclingnerd6219]

@@robertbeisert3315Well now we don’t even need as many people. They’re going to lean on AI heavily. CoD is already selling AI slop.

[@QuarantineV1]

My favorite gaming joke was always: "Why is EA the worst video game favorite in America? Because, Ubisoft is in France." I'm glad both companies are struggling.

[@t2av159]

their big studio is in montreal. France-lite

[@ssgSentinel]

😂😂😂

[@iSeeSoundsShow]

As an employee I approve this message.

[@dennisdenneboom431]

​@@t2av159 2 birds 1 stone 😂

[@nenex73ytb13]

As a french, I approve this message.

[@keeparguing611]

i remember when "ubisoft is bad, but its not as bad as ea atleast" was somewhat the sentiment back then

[@kenchiu1987]

it was " Ubisoft is not the worst because there's EA", but apparently the two are always fighting for the title

[@HoundOfGod]

when has that ever been the sentiment, ea has always been the devil of the gaming industry ever since they fucked up mass effect 3, dead space 3, dragon age inquisition, bought blizzard only to fucking destroy war craft reforged, wild hearts battlefront games etc etc, they've been dumpstering amazing devs by forcing random shit into the games specifically microtransactions, and the only games of any repute they've made in recent times has been like, jedi survivor and fallen order, which was almost completely made by the studio right before they bought them, and then performed so well that they functionally couldn't dumpster it at that point. Ubisoft on the other hand had the golden era up to after AC4, and alot of people shit on the post number generation, but origins, odyssey, and valhalla are all decent enough games if you enjoy the ubisoft formula, a solid 6-7/10 depending on preference, with a bit too much of a microtransation store, but you never needed to even use the store remotely for anything beyond what was functionally cosmetics so its w.e. People shit on ubisoft so much because it went from 1-2-brotherhood-revelations-3-4 constantly hitting bangers, and then started shitting the bed with its new titles that were ok 5/10s to 7/10 pretty fun games. NOW, their newest flagship game is seeming more and more like a DEI, actually racist game given it's documented how actually dumb Yasuke was, and i mean that in a he was actually of room temp iq, was treated as a lesser species, and never once even learned how to fight, but is somehow now a well respected intelligent amazing fighter, and women basically werent people in any respect in samurai era japan, worse than almost any other country besides the witch hunting era in america, but again, i'll shove ubisoft down more once that game comes out, but its a shit game with an agenda, but it's not a ruin an actually good game with dumb ideas like jamming a half ass coop with 400$ of microtransactions to be able to play more than 3 out of 12 classes, on 4 maps with 3 factions, and i have to do it to get the good ending.

[@Raven3557]

They took it as a challenge it seems, race to the bottom with activision joining the race

[@anthonycrayne2835]

15 years ago ubisoft produced some quality games. Not now.

[@willardtk]

Yeah, that wasn't that long ago. Before the Dark Souls Star Wars game.

[@roqm0z666]

I remember meeting an EA producer at a party at GDC. Dude was hammered. We were playing on a cab and I mentioned I wanted to make a fighting game. First thing he mentions is monetization. I remember being taken aback and he said that if it’s not a live service game it won’t make money. This was 2 years ago. It did NOT sit right with me before and it still doesn’t now

[@EuphoriaDeep]

I'll just say this: $70 is a lot of money to pay for a game, much less a civics lesson. For that much money, I expect A LOT more effort and focus on making good games. If AAA studios think they can feed me ten dollars worth of unfinished garbage and charge $70 for it, they deserve standing in the unemployment line. Maybe it'll give them time to reflect.

[@Hardwatch625]

I agree. I'm glad gamers are pushing back on these practices that have gone on too long.

[@corneliusgegan6773]

For real, I don't pay for something if the price vastly out scales the value.

[@QuarantineV1]

If you want to apply the inflation argument that the shills are pushing, we should at a minimum be getting the same level of quality that we were getting when games were $60. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

[@PathofExile2Builds]

Hopefully gamers will continue to use the collective power we have to support/ bankrupt the right developers. Not wanting DEI forced on my choices in the game doesn't make me phobic. I don't like bad writing and I don't like false virtue signaling.

[@LV9_x]

The people benefitting from all this are not standing in the unemployment line. The folks making these decisions and nickle and diming you have thousands if not millions of dollars saved. So when 220 people are all laid off, the people standing in the unemployment line are the general workers like you and I. That's why things like this can happen, the people are insulated from their choices. The people who suffer for it are the wage slaves who inevitably are replaced, they don't get a decision in the direction of their product anyway.

[@JerkingtheGerk]

Nah bro, they said “engaged 1.5 million player” which is half of what they projected. that’s not 1.5 million sales. That metric includes the people who got it for free and the people who refunded the game after playing it.

[@Theweouthereforrealclub-]

The real numbers must be abysmal if thats all the data they could give investors

[@sols.2525]

Also includes people on microsoft gamepass. And lets be real, the real number they were after was 10 million+, not 3 mil.

[@lookiss8502]

It was half of their lowest projections.

[@vulian]

Exactly this. Devil is in the details

[@HGRAP1]

Also what does “engaging” even mean? If I download it for free but never play it, is that engagement? Or if I watch it on twitch, does that count as me engaging with the game?

[@Axterix13]

EA's bad rep predates that CEO. Even at the time they bought BioWare, EA was already thought of as a company that bought up and coming studios, milked them for a bit, and then dumpstered them, just to do it all again with another studio. The bought studio would produce one or two more good games (ME2 and Dragon Age, in Bioware's case), typically projects started prior to EA's purchase, before EA would meddle, talent would leave, and the decline would begin. They just got worse, overall, with the advent of mobile game monetization.

[@thatredmanguy]

Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, AND EA? Nice! Looks like games are healing after all.

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Or giving China our lunch. We have been doing thst lately.

[@kirusuitchi]

@@Joe-ti7qd I don't care where the games come from if they're fun

[@valije]

2024-2025 will be remembered as a couple of great years for gaming... The bad actors go bust, the ones that still make games catered to gamers will find an empty space where to thrive.

[@Asriel_Cypher]

​@kirusuitchi Agreed. Yes. We don't care where the game comes from. All we should care about, if the game is good. Not political of where. That's where it's a slippery slope.

[@michaelkean5969]

@@valije until those that cater to gamers go corporate give into greed and the cycle repeats itself.

[@qu1253]

Fun fact: EA broke offline play in Mass Effect Legendary Edition when they updated it to use the EA app instead of Origin. They've never once acknowledged this issue and they're shutting down Origin in April so even the workaround to replace EA app with an old version of Origin will no longer work. Well, I'm putting on the eye patch because as far as I'm concerned, EA sold me a product that doesn't work as advertised and has made no effort to correct or even acknowledge the problem.

[@justarandomtomato_]

This should be more openly talked about.

[@WhateverMan-lx3dn]

Sue bro

[@michaelakadap924]

First time?

[@mayteexxis]

The decision to replace origin is so stupid it annoys me every time. They stripped away multiple important features, gave it a lame-ass name, and this change has also messed with the older games.

[@tc-tm1my]

Could attempt to take them to court but no gamer has that kind of money

[@111Tommyg]

The irony is, the thing that kept them alive is the games that they thought would fail and left them alone, in not interfering with the games ended up being the best thing they could've ever done but as soon as those games became hits, uh-oh, here comes EA wanting to inflate the profits and milk the dead cow. Instead of sitting back and letting the already ludicrous amount of money roll in, they decide to let greed take the wheel and fly down the motor way and crash

[@talizorahnarrayya5916]

Bethesda might be responsible for introducing microtransactions but EA is responsible for normalizing microtransactions.

[@TheDiner50]

WoW, Mars 23, 2010. Bethesda, In 2006. TF2, May 15, 2009. Steam Wallet. December of 2012, along with the Community Market. Steam can be praised and hated on... Steam/Valve totally are the ones that truly brought micro-transactions and loot-boxes into normality. I would also not be surprised if Overwatch would also be coined as the one responsible for normalizing lootboxes. And battle-pass? What other game has the main reward/advancement give you lootboxes that you open? Never played OW. Am I wrong then ok, but, did the players not solely unlock everything in OW by opening boxes? The paid and reward ones? TF2 let you trade lootboxes, had missions for items, random item drops for free.

[@Zdravdrat]

@@TheDiner50 "Electronic Arts (EA) was the first major game developer to implement loot boxes with the introduction of a new online-only game mode in FIFA 09 , called FIFA Ultimate Team"

[@christopherwesleyrike]

No, I’d say Fortnite normalized and capitalized

[@deadspace_658]

Mmh yes horse armor

[@williamyoung9401]

I will always despise Todd Howard for his short-sighted money grabbing because he has no imagination of his own. He's not "innovative." He hires people to be innovative for him, and he takes all the credit. 🤑

[@kingleonida5513]

Lets not forget Simcity, one of the most well known and beloved simulation city games, now is literally forgotten and long dead

[@CosmicEquilibrium]

SimCity 2000....those were the days

[@ShiroKazami-f1s]

the mobile game ? it is dead for a good reason

[@Nalothisal]

With Cities Skylines eating their goddamn lunch

[@LoboVR07]

@@ShiroKazami-f1s no the desktop games those are the good ones

[@immatoll4375]

This guy is making a drama out of nothing. The stock market was totally overrated ramping up 30%+ the last four months and EA is just back to their normalized 10 year norm now. It's by far not as dramatic and they are doing well selling their MTX bullshit to Fifa fans. I don't care about EA or their games, but I'm more annoyed by bullshit clickbait videos like legendary drops does.

[@qwinlyn]

I see your Mass Effect 3, and raise you Sims 3. You wanna talk micro transactions? That's where your albatross lies, in the Sims Store. That thing *still* charges multiple dollars for a single item and that game came out in 2009, 16 years ago. And don't even get me started on Sims 4 and it's origins as a multiplayer game, it's now **91** DLC when you include the kits. Oh, and now they're not going to even try and put out Sims 5 because they "don't want people to to have to start over with their DLC." 🙄

[@inytule_4688]

Yeah that store thing is truly awful, makes me hate EA even more when I think about it.

[@Felicity_Reid_]

EA re-releasing the Sims 1 & 2 convinced me they are in serious financial trouble. They could have made bank years ago on those but it was their "hail mary" for just this situation.

[@Darkslayer289]

They're "placating" by giving people what they wanted for years. I guarantee you once they bounce back, EA will try to milk their player base again.

[@siontimmy1]

Same for Titianfall 3 Apex is struggling right now

[@g.mendes0482]

I thought the same thing when they released NCAA football... "in case of emergency, break glass"

[@Nitryl44]

EA abandoned the next Sims after the reveal of Inzoi. They knew they couldn't compete against Inzoi directly, so they changed their strategy to make the Sims 4 live ad vitam aeternam by adding hundreds of DLCs, while making the game F2P and multiplayer... EA is slowly losing the lead, and i think it's a good thing.

[@Spr1ggan87]

1&2 are the only entries in that series worth playing

[@Hollyclown]

There has been a blatant decrease in gaming quality, and yet they expect their customers to cough up $100 for future games. They expect us to pay for their failures.

[@sasuke921231]

@Hollyclown ding ding Exactly

[@roller12coaster]

Gamers have been gobbling up garbage for years now, so obviously they decrease the quality further.

[@redblackscoobysnacc6689]

EA dying? Oh i've been praying for this ever since they killed off Command and Conquer. Yes i'm old

[@sabbirraiyan3396]

Remember, nothing happened to the c&c franchise in 2010.

[@drewmer2381]

EA is a joke

[@rensten4893]

It's in the game 😂

[@ganggang3788]

Good luck telling the zombies to not buy the next Fifa or Madden 🤣

[@northstar6920]

Jokes are meant to be funny... all this made me do was cry.

[@StajoLaBell]

Why???? You one of the "buy every new version of the same shitty sports game" kind of people? ​​@@northstar6920

[@chrismath149]

I stopped laughing a long time ago.

[@Songe467]

Sims 4 has been dying a slow, grim death for awhile with no Sims 5 planned, only an endless list of packs where you pay $30 for ten new items. Can't wait to see what impact the new life sim games have.

[@Aciarr]

i laughed when he said the sims 4 was a solid foundation, as it was originally planned to be an online mmo that was quickly reconfigured into a single player game when all the online sims spin off started flopping

[@jimbob1862]

Wasn't Sims 5 actually in the works at some point a few years back too? I'm not 100% on that but I remember a pretty big Sims project getting canned for more Sims 4 dlc

[@TheHollowBlade]

@@Aciarr Idk, im no hardcore sims gamer. But the few times i played the Sims4, i felt it was fundamentally fine compared to the past games. The dlc on the other hand.. What the actual fuck... Why is it so outrageously expensive after so many years? Even on sale the dlc is stupid expensive.

[@Xaltotun]

I am hoping paralives turns out good. Paradox Interactive was developing a life sim game, but it was cancelled unfortunately.

[@wolfofragnarok1]

@@Xaltotun inZOI looks like a promising addition to the genre. But it's not out yet to judge.

[@sebastianandersson7708]

I am like... you have Any idea , how many studios have Died under EA's rule... Westwood, Bullfrog, Phenomic , Mythic, Maxis, Pandemic, Visceral. Imagine if EA didn't get their hands on Westwood or Bullfrog...

[@cericat]

Molyneux might still have messed up Bullfrog, but then too maybe not. But dang I miss Syndicate, the Theme series, and Dungeon Keeper (less so 2, some of the changes were a let down ie how you get a Horned Reaper).

[@robertbeisert3315]

Imagine a world where Red Alert was so big that Starcraft is viewed as a knock-off

[@davidbruce482]

This isn't just a video game industry issue, it's any company that trades on the stock market. It's a huge problem where you sacrifice long term viability for quarterly profits. Exponentially growing is impossible, eventually all markets reach saturation with no room to grow, this is especially evident with TV and movies in the streaming service industry.

[@GARCIIIAmonster]

100% this

[@SirIsaacClarke]

Sad to say alot of people high up have this opinion about everything. Short sightedness, be it for videogames, the environment, or our dwindling natural resources. They want the dopamine now, the profit, over future prosperity and stability.

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

The rot began in the 2000s, when they dissolved several studios, like Bullfrog, Westwood and Origin. That was what made people hate them originally.

[@MrSpartan993]

It only snowballed from there

[@Swofflecopter]

Don't forget Pandemic

[@YourShow124]

Ugh, game studios!!! 😭😭😭 what the hell happened bro…

[@Halesburg]

Man I LOVED Ultime Online when I was a kid. EA was my first hate.

[@clovermite]

Yup. I will never forget it, and I will never forgive it. There was an infographic floating around a while back with all the studios that have shuttered shortly after being purchased by EA.

[@neonsamurai1348]

The corruption really started in the late 1980s early 1990s, when they were acquiring highly creative successfully studios and then destroying them with greed and incompetence, companies like Origin Studios, Bullfrog, Maxis, Westwood, Lionhead, etc. All those studios produced incredible games for their times and all were corrupted and consumed by EA. That is when it started, not during the times of Mass Effect and Dead Space, that pattern was established a long time ago.

[@PresidentScrooge]

Lionhead got bought by Microsoft. Either way. EA is a locust. They just swarm over anything thats successful and then viscerate it until nothings left.

[@dolinemae]

Wait, weren't Lionhead bought by Microsoft and then died?

[@cj09beira]

Bullfrog, damn i miss those guys really loved Theme Park world. another victim to early EA was that small modder studio that did most of the work for BF2

[@ThatGuyKazz]

As someone who has been saying this literally since EA bought Bioware during the development of Mass Effect 2. It brings me immense joy to see EA finally start crumbling along with Activision, Ubisoft, and Take Two. Get these corpo ass hats out of the video game industry.

[@EuphoriaDeep]

Yep, and they even destroyed a few studios BEFORE Bioware, too. Just a cancer on creativity.

[@StajoLaBell]

Take Two is about to drop GTA 6? They aren't going anywhere for 20 years lol

[@Asriel_Cypher]

​@@StajoLaBell GTA6 is nearly too big to fail but people already see some issues like the writings on the wall about it becoming the parodies that their games were mocking. You can easily find them.

[@garaktartv3647]

@@StajoLaBell ngl i hope gta 6 flops so hard that it drags take two with them. but i guess that's gonna stay a dream sadly.

[@db.1304]

@@garaktartv3647 its impossible for it to flop hard. It's like Star Wars the Force Awakens... despite it being a terrible movie it made billions simply because fans where starved for it... GTA unfortunately will sell incredibly regardless of quality (and who knows it could be fantastic). It will take years of mismanagement and flops to sink Take Two, just like what is happening with Lucasfilms... the level of incompetence to make it happen is outstanding but hey we are witnessing real time that it is possible.

[@juliantorres8726]

All good, correct and fair points. Except you missed the most important one: this was intentional. It is the "don't care, got rich" mindset. They simply do not care about the franchises or if the business is sustainable or not. They got the money that players gave them, and life will move on. Bridges burnt and bodies scarred, they simply do not care, they got rich.

[@Glubbdubdrib]

If you were the CEO of EA, wouldn’t you have that mindset, too? I definitely would. “I don’t care how the games come out, at least I have a billion in the bank.” I’d rather have a billion and have consumers hate me than to have a couple million and people love me. Their opinion wouldn’t bother me. And I’m sure that’s exactly what they think.

[@MattisticStatistic]

@@Glubbdubdrib I think that says more about you than anything else...

[@Glubbdubdrib]

@@MattisticStatistic that’s why I said it. Do you *really* think the CEOs and major shareholders give a fuck about us gamers in any of the big companies?

[@MattisticStatistic]

@ I imagine the common person suddenly becoming the CEO of EA would have some ethics, yeah. A consistent 2 million + good publicity is better than a one-time 2 billion that puts your company in a negative light.

[@stedz2000]

@@Glubbdubdrib When you're soaring that high, they all look like ants 😉

[@fathertimegaming17]

NHL 92. The blizzard in March that covered the east coast in snow. Three early 20 somethings snowed in in their apartment each with a fresh quarter bag. An NHL 92. It was the best week of our lives.

[@scorcher64]

My first experience that EA was changing was noticing them buying up studios and letting franchises die. I miss the Burnout racing series... The biggest notable for me was the Sims series. Assets that used to be a part of entire expansions from Sims 1 and Sims 2 were now broken up and resold as "Game Packs," "Stuff Packs," "Kits," and "Bundles"...

[@Hiddenus1]

Probably because they made core game free. They shifted the "income" from not buying a game but trying tricking kids into buying all addons for 1300$ in total.

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

They wanted to do that to DATVG too, that's why the hired the person who was in charge of doing all that on the Sims to lead DATVG.

[@SilverBliss-w2s]

Burnout 3 takedown was my most favourite!! classic game. Still haven't had that much fun in a racing game since.

[@DagobertX2]

RIP Westwood Studios. That was my point and C&C Generals changed in tone, than they brought it back with RA3 but overdone it IMO.

[@chief664]

Mass Effect 3 was also one of the first instances I remember of Game journalist shilling for a game studio. Fans were pissed at the end of Mass Effect 3, but journos were like “everything is awesome 9.5 out of 10”. Meanwhile KZbinrs like Angry Joe were telling it like it is.

[@owa1985]

ME3 really was a 9.5 up until the goddamned tricolor ending, including the Multiplayer. Some of us just mentally block out the entire ending sequence.

[@PcCAvioN]

​@owa1985 the game ends when Shepard enters the beam 😂 everything else is a fever dream

[@KhadiPlays]

@@owa1985 I had way more problems, like the switching of writers really shows. Geth weren't written to be indivudual for example, there was no "Does this machine have a soul?". In ME2 Legion played a recording that asked "Do those units have a soul?". The whole point of Geth wanting to be one but also sentient was completley missed by whoever wrote ME3, and that is just one thing. But despite that I agree, the game was phenomenal up until the ending. I just completely ignore the parts of the lore that I don't like becuase of missed rewrites and then the ending. Even the "fixed" ending is just pathetic.

[@owa1985]

@@KhadiPlays yeah, sounds like the sort of thing I'd dock half a point for.

[@qoaa]

The ME3 ending of pick from 3 colors was so bad they tried to rush out a dlc ending to fix things that was just as horrible as well since it was just adding insult to injury at that point. I think the most creative storyline that occurred with the Mass Effect trilogy came from the fans and not the devs, the fans came up with the "Indoctrination theory" that just about perfectly fit what the story itself seemed to be heavily hinting at. The Indoctrination theory was sooo good because it fit so well with everything we had learned how the Reapers worked and how they took over a planet, there was just too many coincidences going on that seemed to make the Indoctrination theory the actual direction the story should have been leading to. Except the devs had to come out and squash the theory in one of their live streams all because they didn't want fans to get their hopes up too much or get too hyped. It's sad when the fans create a storyline that fits so much better and covers possible plot holes and solves a lot of issues with the game. If you haven't heard or read about mass effect Indoctrination theory the definitely look it up, because it was really good, and better than what the company came up with.

[@neveridle]

As a developer, Im sad of so many IPs, franchises and jobs were lost because of EAs greed. As a gamer, Im super glad they're getting what they deserved.

[@captainavatar0]

John Riccitiello's shitting the bed with Unity wasn't a new behaviour by him. He had been displaying the same stupidity at EA for years.

[@kingkoolkattz]

not the Andrew Wilson has been any better, worse even because his terrible ideas were actually successfully implemented

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

I will never forgive what he did to Dungeon Keeper, Ultima, Wing Commander, C&C and SimCity.

[@control_the_pet_population]

to be fair, these lifelong executive corpo folks aren't stupid at all... they almost always deliver exactly what they were hired to deliver: short term gain. Ten years later when it all catches up and crumbles, well that's not their concern. They weren't hired to worry about the next 10 years. They were hired to boost that stock price NOW. The problem isn't the CEO. The problem is a system that has turned stocks into something to be quickly flipped instead of something that should be held for long term returns.

[@cirescythe]

EA fails to realize that heavy monetization only works if you offer something, people want to have

[@cuuurlyfries5246]

EA, Ubisoft, Bungie, riot games… It’s all falling apart and they chose this fate rather than please their audience and earn money 🤦‍♂️

[@robertbeisert3315]

The goal was always to make a quick buck off the financial system. The problem is that the MBA's forgot that they're parasites on a host they doom themselves.

[@cuuurlyfries5246]

@ sounds just like my Labour government too. Parasites that are draining their life supply of income dry and not looking at the consequences in the long run. Some people just don’t care about their future selves.

[@MisterNightfish]

I don't understand how EA can be doing poorly when sports game players are such good natured cash cows. They buy the same slop game year on year with the slightest updates and they are willing to shill out money for microtransactions like crazy. It seems almost impossible to not print money like that.

[@ThatGuyKazz]

Because they've failed everywhere else which has all but forced them to milk those cash cows even harder. That has damaged their reputation with even those people willing to pay for annual shovel ware releases.

[@Asriel_Cypher]

I'm very envious of them for getting such loyal cash cows to keep buying the same game and gamble on them every year.

[@garaktartv3647]

its actually baffling to me how sports fans are putting up with the same predatory slop each year and the predatory systems also get worse with each new iteration. and yet they spend absurd amounts of money on ultimate team. I thought i was bad with my gacha passion but man some of the big spenders on ultimate team make whales in some gacha games look like small fish.

[@fs5866]

These sports fan are usually oafish thick skulled guys that also have some gambling addiction.

[@Steir12]

@@garaktartv3647 Sport fans aren't the brightest bunch as you can see for yourself at any major sport event.

[@manynukes11]

C&C, FIFA and The Sims/Sim City were huge parts of my childhood. Sad to see how far they've fallen by either completely forgetting them or turning them into garbage. I miss Westwood and Maxis.

[@ilari90]

Hear ye! Remember when I got Yuri's Revenge, that was the only thing I wished for as a christmas present and got it :) those were the days.

[@MrDax13]

​@@ilari90 Kirov reporting

[@DPredator]

To me personally, Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge is still the best RTS game ever made, the collapse of Westwood Studios still hurts me to this day.

[@Bouwplan]

They absolutely butchered sim city

[@kasugaryuichi9767]

​@@DPredator Mental Omwga could always use more players ^^

[@GaIIeon]

As a Gacha Player and someone who had classmates that played (& paid for) Fifa Ultimate Team, i never could understand how they are fine with their Roster being reset every year. Its just bizarre

[@xser1ousc0mbatx]

Studios back during the golden age: "we like video games. We made a game that we like. Hopefully you will enjoy it as well." *makes a good quality product* Studios now: "we are here for your money. Here's a cash grab game. Buy all the microtransactions. We will fix the game eventually." *highly likely to be ass*

[@icancounto9994]

They were always greedy. The issue is inflationary credit expansion.

[@jismeraiverhoeven]

Dont forget "dont you know how hard it is to make a good game" like guys, devs used to make good game with hardware and software far worse then what you have acces to now, with far less devs working on it on top in what i assume is the same amount of time or less given all the modern delays. Its just a skill issue

[@freshskittles92]

Don't forget call you a racist/incel if you critique their slop.

[@TheHollowBlade]

@@icancounto9994 A business is a business, their sole goal is to make money. Shit is not a charity. And risk management is a big thing in business that has to be taken into consideration. The thing is in the space of video games creativity comes first and that creativity is what brings the profits. But with creativity comes massive risk and these big corporations are trying to minimize the risk which is why we are where we are. They used their name and nostalgia to create fomo over the years, once the fomo was at a peak they started to cut corners so profits were higher and risk much lower. The fomo made it hard to admit that we were spending so much money on garbage. That fomo has/is lifting as made obvious with all these studios starting to struggle. People are starting to realize, with some help of the economic situation that blindly spending money on video game mtx and games that are bad is a complete waste. And people are starting to get fed up that they are being fed slop. Its basically the story of We Happy Few.. We have stopped taking the magic medicine and now see how shit the industry has become, and the industry from corrupt media to the companies themselves are trying to gaslight and guilt trip us, that its our fault games are failing and that we are the problem. As the Gman says. "Wake up mr Freeman.. Wake up. And smell the ashes"

[@nicolasv7283]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@jismeraiverhoevenI now have over a year in experience as an independent developer and artist. I can promise you game development is WAY easier than you would think as long as you are willing to put in the time. Anytime a developer tells you it’s “hard,” they should really be saying “time consuming.” It’s not hard. You just need patience. Plus you don’t even need expensive hardware anymore. The use of data layering in modern engines allows you make a visually impressive game on just about any pc with dedicated graphics. I started on a $400 pc I built from my friend’s spare parts. I think these new game devs are just lazier than the old school guys

[@unholymunk]

This video has hit so hard. I've given my adult life to two companies that started as small humble start-ups and that both grew massively into companies that listed on stock exchanges. The moment the company lists on the stock exchange, the pressure for profits becomes the ONLY focus. It kills any true initiative and vision and makes everyone focus on the money and profits. It's so sad. I work at a much better company now, but if I smell anything like this again I will be worried.

[@Reaver102]

If I'm not mistaken once you go to the stock exchange you're now legally obligated to put profits first.

[@Skumtomten1]

Explain why there would be a difference for going public? There is no difference, only a different regulatory framework.

[@xintrosi6829]

@@Reaver102 I do not believe there is any legal requirement, but if you want to attract investors you need to promise value. The only metric the investors have is your next profit forecast and your most recent profit performance. And while not legally required there is a philosophy that since the shareholders own the company management is obligated to put shareholder interests first. Ergo profit first. Unless an investor is interested in gaining a notable interest in your company they're all interhcangable faceless members of a mutual fund. They will flow away and back at any moment which means the ostensible owners don't actually care about long-term performance. Only people that plan to buy and hold care abou tthat; if someone is just interested in investing in the next big thing that doesn't matter to them. "A company crashed and burned? Eh, I already invested in the next cool thing. Sucks to be the slow pokes!"

[@mjbrownii]

Crazy how this automatically played while I wasn’t paying attention, and when he said “developers we’d all be happy to see fail” i instantly said “is it EA” and for some reason when he said electronic arts I forgot those were the same thing for a few seconds 😂

[@sysakPL]

I game since the 90s and forgot that the "A" in "EA" stands for "Arts" a long time ago. Slop. Slop everywhere as far as an eye can see.

[@Darkkfated]

Man, remember when EA was known mostly for porting CRPGs (Populous, Might and Magic II) to the Sega Genesis? Or when their sports titles - while not perfect by any means - were clearly made by people who wanted to get the game as real-to-life as a 16-bit system could manage? I miss those days.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

I worked at EA and there is NOTHING that fills my heart with joy as much as hearing bad news about the folks that neglected to pay me for my last day of work and revoking my credentials so that I couldn't even get in the building to lodge an HR complaint. Scratch that, hearing about the Chinese AI doing badly is even more enticing.

[@JikilmeK]

you had a open and shut case and could have gotten 1000s for such a action done to you.... you are part of the problem stand up for yourself or dont even bother opening your mouth to cry about it.....

[@arianjohnson8457]

Sorry to break it to you but DeepSeek makes chat gpt look like an infant child. Who cares what country it comes from, it was still made by fellow human beings.

[@levi8781]

I hope EA goes bankrupt, they ruined Madden and Battlefield, two of my most favorite franchises i played when I was a kid

[@TS111WASD]

@JikilmeK Coulda woulda shoulda. Hindsight makes a genius out of a fool.

[@ThatGrumpyOldBastard]

I vividly remember how during the fallout of Battlefront II, people were - VEHEMENTLY - arguing me that EA had listened and learned their lesson "because they said so", WHILE they were actively fighting my country's government over their definition of gambling after they tightened the grip on lootboxes. Something that, if I recall correctly, is STILL ongoing, 8 years in. Cause yes, that sure sounds like behavior benefitting someone who has learned from their mistakes. The only thing I thought they learned was to not get caught overreaching, to be more subtle about their practices. But I'm guessing 'subtle' didn't raise them profit margins quite enough.

[@RedRabbit-ZA]

Losing the FIFA license cost them no doubt.

[@guyvermearns]

They didn't technically lose the license, they refused to renew it as it would have cost them $1B. Even if they still had the Fifa name, that game would still be on a downward trend it's such a poor game riddled with mistakes and exploitative tactics.

[@GenesiisDavid]

It wasn't the fifa license honestly. That community has been discontent for long and I'm glad they're finally waking up to it and not spending.

[@novapro9553]

What will happen with the release of Rematch from Sloclap. Since PES games stoped they did not have competition in the soccer games genre

[@awake1273]

Not the license. EAFC is the worst gaming experience out there with some of the worst game mechanics in gaming. It's the same game slightly worse than its predecessor since at least 2022. It's a ripoff without providing any kind of entertainment.

[@ajdz1840]

EA kept most of all the licenses that matter, being the clubs. Players don’t care about FIFA, the corrupt governing body rent seeker, except in a World Cup year. They were used to the name but that’s it essentially. It’s hilarious how much brand value FIFA delude themselves into believing they have. I was in Asia and they had FIFA stores with rotting FIFA merchandise

[@jonpro9637]

E. A. SPORTS - It killed the games.

[@Christian_Bagger]

A little trivia. The people behind the original Baldur’s Gate trilogy was also behind Dragon Age Origin and Mass Effect. Gaming journalists said back then, that they had to move on from Baldur’s Gate as isometric 2d was outdated. It was all about 3D

[@jasonarnold1990]

Ubisoft - prepare for trouble EA - and make it double Honestly, it couldn’t happen to a more shittier companies. I will never forgive EA for the monopoly They have on NFL video games.

[@HellPedre]

hahahhah you made me chuckle

[@thecanadian8719]

EA starting dying in 2006. I worked there for 10 years. Most good employees were fired or quit

[@toby2581]

Bingo. There are so many zoomers in these comments effectively saying "all these publishers were good until I got old enough to notice they were bad". Give it another 20 years and a new crop of kids will be saying "remember what a gaming golden age the 2020s were?". They have no sense of perspective or history at all.

[@cr0mag732]

​@toby2581 They will because all the good games from now will be remembered and all these games like veilguard, concord, anthem etc. will be long forgotten.

[@cericat]

Earlier, the rot set in in the late 90s and just took years before anyone noticed that wasn't already pissed at EA in time to notice the shift in behaviour that has just continued a downward spiral.

[@gemjarv]

When EA desecrated Mercenaries, a burning hate built inside my soul. They took one of the best games ever made and turned it into something disgusting and then when it failed they shuttered the studio. I HATE EA

[@Kaasbaas045]

​@@gemjarvim in the same boat. But for ehat they did to Westwood and cnc Renegade 2. Id still play that game today, but no. They scrapped it.

[@randm4246]

I play both NBA2K, and Madden's, card collecting modes and I can say without question 2Ks is far more predatory. They have much less content, their pack odds are beyond predatory (0.1 - 0.05% for the best cards), and every decision the content team makes is meant to push their players towards buying their virtual currency. The worst part is it is rated E, so tons of kids play. I'd suggest taking a deep dive into that mode. MyTeam's last good years were 21 + 22. They killed it in 23, and have been just desecrating the corpse since.

[@thecanadian8719]

10 years at EA. I've been repeatedly told this is a negative on my resume.

[@adamanderson234]

Wow, seeing him say the starting point of EA's collapse was Mass Effect 3 echoes what I've been saying for a decade and that makes me happy knowing I was right. I remember playing ME3 before they patched the ending and once I finished the game, I was completely distraught. Sat there for 10 minutes in utter disbelief, annoyance, and worstly, sadness. The ending was so bad and insulting to me as a gamer that I had to rant about it to my mom for 45 minutes afterwards, going through everything wrong with it. That's where my hatred for EA started, and it's only grown since.

[@markwatson8714]

The ending being entirely down to Bioware and very little to do with EA, and not being entirely surprising to anyone familiar with Bioware.

[@costanzafaust]

I stopped buying EA products when I could not get ME3 (or DA2) on steam because they wanted it to be exclusive to their spyware service Origin. I borrowed a copy of ME3 on a WiiU and finished it without my old save file just to avoid Origin. Has voting with my wallet FINALLY started to have some impact?

[@PresidentScrooge]

You poor young lad. Havent bought an EA game since they started removing features and then re-adding them a year later in their sports games. As well as buying franchises and destroying them (Dungeon Keeper, Command & Conquer, Sims, Sim City, SpellForce, Theme Park, Ultima, etc.). Which is roughly the mid 2000s. EA is a locust. They just swarm over anything thats successful and then viscerate it until nothings left. Ironically the only game that almost made me give in was Mass Effect. After hearing what happened in the 3rd game Im glad I didnt. EA and Ubisoft can go down and burn in hellfire.

[@zachbaker2051]

Were you also new to the series like me and got stuck with the ending where the entire galaxy is completely destroyed? "Oh, you didn't wander around looking for people in the Hub area to drop off random artifacts all the time, AND didn't buy and play the aggressively monetized multiplayer? Guess everybody dies."

[@wolflie91]

I will never forget the day1 jarvick paid dlc which hid HALF of the backstory of the whole game behind a paywall.. that was absurd

[@MaggieFlwrs]

“Too big to fail” that’s not as old of a saying as “the bigger they are the harder they fall” Veilguard got EVERYTHING wrong and those that say “well no they got this right” clearly have no experience in anything technical because even the fight choreography is wrong the skills are wrong many of the weapons and armor are wrong the writing the pacing the LITERALLY EVERYTHING the fact they were forced to decrease head sizes is very telling of how wrong everything is

[@hoffdaddygames6394]

I feel terrible for all of the developers under EA’s umbrella. There are so many people who want to make great games and do what they love, but they’re being steered straight into unemployment by incompetent, greedy leaders in EA.

[@kenchiu1987]

Nah, the really good ones have already left, which is why we get crap like The Veil Guard

[@riptide1ful]

EA doesn't stand for Electronic Arts but Evil Alliance instead.

[@Braindeadevilash]

Exceptionally Ass

[@samthomas9651]

New Apex Legends battle passes also have a 20$ money only version that gives you way cooler skins but they delete off your account after 1 calendar year 😂😂 LIKE WHAT????

[@SeraphimKnight]

I had a friend that worked in Bioware for some years. She participated in the development of Andromeda... and that game was probably a large part of the reason why she changed jobs shortly after its release and the general panning it got. I'm honestly surprised it took this long for the company to start crumbling down.

[@thefilmpost2686]

The only thing they have left are their 'Star Wars Jedi' games and you can't even give them brownie points for that, as it was Respawn Entertainment that helmed those games.

[@ThatGuyKazz]

And the ONLY reason Jedi Survivor turned out as well as it did was because of the massive backlash of Battlefront 2 and EA kinda just went hands off for Jedi Survivor as a result.

[@AngelOfDæth_4]

And just give it time, they’ll ruin that too

[@freshskittles92]

They also were boring slop.

[@jamie2487]

They weren't the best but it was refreshing to have a White male lead in a star wars project who wasn't an incompetent buffoon and a story that doesn't exist to say white people, men, and straights are bad so I'll take it

[@jerkopatrik]

@@freshskittles92 nah I'd disagree. Both are actually good additions to the Star Wars universe lore wise with a genuinely good romance which feels very well written and the combat (especially on grandmaster difficulty) is amazing. Yeah Survivor did have performance issues at the start but they were fixed in a couple months at least.

[@agroed]

Ubisoft and EA are learning that when you do nothing but put out sub-standard products and alienate your customers for 15 years, you might start seeing some adverse effects. Who knew?

[@Draconisrex1]

We need to be clear. It was 50% of their LOW-BALL projections due to how bad it was. Had it been a good game, they would have projected about 8 million based on DA: Inquisition sales.

[@Rietto]

The fact they used a weasel-word term like 'players engaged' vs 'sold' makes it clear the true picture is even worse.

[@joshuadavis2175]

Idk about the rest of you, but I'm here for the fall of these companies pushing horrible consumer practices. It's about dam time we realize that we control the landscape of the gaming industry.

[@Thebub44]

I think it really shows just how corrupt games and review networks are. This game got reviewed at like 9’s and 10’s… and anyone who gave criticism wasn’t given a review code. These companies are only hurting themselves and creating a lot of mistrust. Plus if companies keep spitting out the same franchises or remakes on top of remakes on top of remakes why would people buy them?

[@wire_hall_medic8470]

In 2017, we bought a PS4 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 for Christmas. After the near-endless download, we started it up . . . and it was a hollow shell for microtransactions. The single-player options were tech demos. That was the last time I bought an EA game.

[@ReallyNotTrixYT]

After what John Riccitiello did to EA, it still boggles my mind that Unity hired the guy in the first place. Also look at Doug Bowser, the current president of Nintendo of America and former EA Exec, and the legal costs he wastes annually. I'm not saying a mandatory 10 year jail sentence for previous EA Execs should be implemented, but I do think it should be considered >.>

[@NovaZero]

It was actually a bit before that when they realized that ME2 had actively engaged audience due to its multiplayer and monetization. They used to have a news feed an writers who actively dripped a sort of "news crawl" that gave Mass Effect's extended galaxy some life. THAT is what slowly prepped us for ME3 - and where LOOT BOXES made some ridiculous bank.

[@Keksbutter123]

I watched your video about Ubissoft and started wondering, why EA wasn`t dying as well, and now I know, that it is

[@Tamachii12]

EA still have their sports division parachute to make them not fall apart...

[@AtesSu2006.]

Sports games

[@Asriel_Cypher]

They have their loyal sports cash cows that keep buying the same slop each year with barely no change and have them gamble every year. I'm so envious. I want those cash cows too.

[@MrSpartan993]

Only as long as we don’t keep giving them our money

[@reiser_175]

Respawn and Dice’s downfalls really suck man. Titanfall 2 was one of my favorite games of all time and now the respawn that ea has isnt even the same team anymore. They got tired of being forced to work on apex when they wanted to continue with titanfall. Dice lost their identity 2042 did get better but it feels more like cod and less like a battlefield game.

[@kerosenoKeroseno-f5d]

battlefield started being COD on battlefield bad companys and BF3 when EA make a tactical team based franchise in to a gun and run like headless chikens fps with objetives seems that you started to play BF with BC or BF3 battlefield was more like SQUAD before those titles

[@jerkopatrik]

Respawn at least still made some very good games in the likes of Apex and the two Jedi games, hope they get to make the third one a banger as well because the ending in Survivor left a lot of opportunities open. I still have faith in them even if the way they handle Apex is uh... questionable to say the least XD

[@jamesstanley792]

@@jerkopatrikAssuming they don’t somehow ruin Jedi 3 then yes. Titanfall 3’s what people really want at this point.

[@jerkopatrik]

@ unfortunately Titanfall 3 is literally Apex Legends. It was supposed to be TF3 but EA saw the BR market going insane and they asked Respawn to make a BR in the Titanfall universe. I mean Apex did turn out to be insanely good but the way the game is mishandled currently is genuinely mind boggling. Respawn are sitting on BY FAR the best battle royale base mechanics wise and they have no idea what to do with it. I recommend watching HisWattson's video on the topic, he is a very well respected member of the community as an ex ALGS mvp and now streamer. He summarizes the failures of Respawn with Apex pretty well.

[@hotpocketdeath]

I don't know who all remembers The Consumerist. EA won their "Golden Turd" award 2 years in a row as being the "worst" company in America. They've been effing over their customers for well over a decade now. I feel like some of these studios that were putting out quality would be much better off if they had not sold to EA in the first place. We need these kinds of spotlights on corporations to try and keep them in check. When corporations aren't constantly outed for their BS, they will keep doing it.

[@kaylemain2006]

The article at 22:49 former dev says "a AAA single player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" is proof that not only is management out of touch, but most of the devs are, too. Blaming anything and everything for the cause of the flop. You know what people used to say? that CRPGs were dead. Enter Baldur's Gate 3. Not to mention we have had major SP shooter game successes in the last few years, and Doom TDA is looking like it will sell like pancakes.

[@erich4925]

Why would I pay $70 - $100+ for a game that wasn't made for me according to the devs? A game that is filled with bugs, sociopolitical agendas and messaging, and mediocrity in regards to gameplay, story, and graphics, where the expectation is that I simply consume and enjoy not owning it. If I have a problem with that or don't hand the devs my wallet, then I'm berated and insulted by the devs and journos, blamed for all things wrong with gaming and why that game failed financially. Only with people so delusional and out of touch with reality would think this type of business model would work by blaming and insulting your customer base yet demand their money and loyalty. I have zero sympathy for these studios and the people that work this way.

[@abyssaldision8272]

Cry about it chud

[@Temporal94]

Sociopolitical messaging does have its place but typically not when it's being shoved in your face or isn't relevant to the premise of the game. Given the complete mismanagement with DEI initiatives, it could just be out of touch corporate heads who think shotgunning social virtue gets them more money

[@abyssaldision8272]

@@erich4925 cry more chud

[@psyidm]

as a someone who's familiar with gacha games since 2015, i still couldn't fathom why people playing a PAID gacha game that reset your progress every year and why people are just okay with the reset.

[@MrThademon]

It's really a damn shame there wasn't millions of people telling them all at once that they didn't want any of this. Maybe then all of this could have been avoided?

[@gameoverinsertcointocontin8102]

The transformation of EA happened long before. They bought out Origins, which was a legendary development studio of the 90s. After sucking their IP dry they bought out Bullfrog, sucking them dry. Buying out Westwood with the well liked RPG and strategy games and you can guess what happens next. Bioware is just another husk that has their life sucked out.

[@CrystallineFoxCF]

There's honestly a simple way to explain this, these AAA studios didn't understand the difference between cutting corners and bulldozing a path right down the middle, one only does a bit of damage, the other one does damage that is a expensive to repair, and they keep bulldozing and bulldozing until they've destroyed their entire 'town' that they've built up.

[@MetabolicFrolic]

Until EA goes under, I'm not gonna get a Need for Speed worthy of the Underground/U2/Most Wanted PS2 golden era....

[@サイバー狼]

I've been hearing people talk about tokyo extreme racer. I don't know much about it. But it really gives off the NFS Underground vibes. It currently has a 94% overwhelming positive reviews on steam as of right now.

[@bloemen34]

Never played Underground1 or 2. But man Most wanted Was AMAZING. Need for Speed Carbon was pretty cool aswell

[@Theweouthereforrealclub-]

@@bloemen34get you an old copy of NFSU2 for PC someday if you have a PC that can run it. It’s solid unless no police chases is a deal breaker for you

[@garaktartv3647]

@@bloemen34 get a emulator and pirate that shit no sense in giving these asshats any more money.

[@caseygoins9345]

Dude those games were so freaking good!!!

[@GeneralM13]

Companies these days: Let's see how far the consumer is willing to bend over to get taken from behind and still pay us money for it. I've been boycotting EA for YEARS and i'm not gonna stop now. It can burn for all i care, the moment EA bought Westwood i've hated them.

[@RoTju]

SAME! They destroyed such a masterpeice of a series.... C&C died with EA and I still hate them for it till this day!

[@jaesdarkness]

Exactly. They bought Westwood and then obliterated it. Why? Jealousy? Naw. They were the dog who caught the car with that one. Should've stayed with their lame sports games that were already irrelevant at game release and just let other studios do their better other stuff. Now, the reckoning comes due and I hope it beggars them out. Maybe then the C&C Project can buy C&C3 and we can continue to enjoy it, us OG fans.

[@walalon8719]

Now that they killed Dragon Age, now its turn for Tash on Mass Effect! Right guys?! Hahahaha... Sigh...

[@notYisan]

turns out you cant monetize your group therapy session and also its a textbook definition of fvck around and find out. its a valuable lesson to the AAA gaming monolith, you cant alienate you customer and expected profit, the so called modern audience is just a myth (or dont have money to buy your game), favorable reviews, likes, and retweets dont always translate to sales, and go woke go broke is not a mantra its a reality.

[@ajfgaming7387]

Modern audiences don't exist, period. Less than 1% the population of the United States. That's who they are trying to cater to. Big brain moves right there lmao

[@randomanimations4213]

EA……yeah it’s time to pack it up

[@MrConredsX]

EA and Bioware should fall, there is no redeption arc from them. Maybe there's still hope for CDPR but they might be following them few years later.

[@gamerkingdom1442]

This is what I would say to these EA defenders who insist “EA is too big to fail”: IF UBISOFT CAN FALL, SO CAN EA. I’m tired of this nonsense that they’re impossible to fail, like gods that can’t fall from their top of their Mount Olympus. EA deserves to fail, SPECTACULARLY!

[@markwatson8714]

Yeah, people have been saying that since the 1990s, when EA was barely worth $1bn. They're worth $25bn today.

[@RRed19]

Nothing is too big to fail, all things fail eventually. Sometimes you just have to make it fail faster. Maybe when they crash to the ground and die, maybe they will learn before they finally bite it. Bah, who am I kidding? They never learn.

[@donskelo]

Couldn't happen to a worse company.

[@agroed]

Pinpointing the downfall of EA to Mass Effect 3 is so absurdly correct. You're a gentleman and a scholar sir.

[@xKinjax]

It's really not though. Their downfall started in the late 2000s. They botched so many projects that looked like sure wins and killed off so many studios. Hell even before that with killing off studios like Bullfrog.

[@mchammer5592]

I love how they acquired and shut down any ip with an ounce of heart/ goodwill to go all in on one mega strategy. Whenever you think that corporate executives are these brilliant gods of business, just remember this idiocy.

[@Decimus87]

Anthem was the last video game ever pre-ordered. Never again.

[@aDeprivedSeal]

I remember when I said that for Brink. Its a good strategy.

[@KayTwoAyy]

No Man’s Sky for me XD

[@KABLAMMATS]

​@@KayTwoAyy at least they still take care of it

[@wolflie91]

i said it with anthem, but fell back into it with cyberpunk.. must say that they turned it around but at release.. man i was livid

[@devilhunterred]

Dude, the downfall of EA being consumed by greed happened YEARS ago when they started selling Sims 2 expansion packs piecemeal just to squeeze out more $$$ from the consumers.

[@ellery0909]

It started with mass effect 2. When they killed shepherd it was a sign they didn't give a sh*t about the lore or the world or what you did in me1. When the writer left the project, it was the canary in the coal mine.

[@jerkopatrik]

I hate to say that I agree but true lol I love ME2 but holy shit the reason they made Shepard work for Cerberus is beyond Sci-Fi lmao the whole fucking Lazarus Project shit is genuinely unbelievable XDDD

[@Celtic-beans]

Getting outplayed on their own franchise Battlefield by Delta Force warfare is my favorite EA L in recent time

[@qu1253]

Delta Force has plenty of its own controversies.

[@Celtic-beans]

@ sure, but objectively speaking it’s way better than the pile of shit 2042 was

[@sysakPL]

​@@Celtic-beansthey constantly search for the minimum viable product they can shove down our throats. Looks like with 2042 they steered that course too hard but doubt that the lessons they learned are the ones we'd like them to.

[@blakemartin4991]

Video starts at 21:29

[@MEGAF4IL]

Real

[@jimmp6005]

Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.

[@CasualViewer-t4f]

😂

[@TheRedstonian]

I wholeheartedly agree

[@joshstanton267]

Should run for office! 😂

[@Baldarq]

As an Origin/Westwood/Maxis/Bullfrog/etc fan watching someone complain about EA destroying a studio for profits, I am just thinking, "First time, kid?"

[@SkinnyFG]

But you’re still a fan?

[@CharzaKitsune]

As someone who enjoyed Spoony’s Ultima Retrospective back at Uni, the only thought that came to mind around 12:41 was “First Time?” EA’s got a graveyard FULL of acquired studios that they made dig their own grave before putting them out of their misery. With that in mind, it’s DELECTABLE seeing Karma FINALLY catch up to them and their unbridled hubris.

[@conservingcommonsense4980]

I'll never forgive them for destroying Westwood Studios.

[@hatchetman3662]

Good. It's time to shut her down.

[@Majorchug]

Thank you for having relevant footage through this whole thing. Too many videos are talking about a topic but give you 30 mins of someone playing some game no one cared about

[@A1phaChino]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the common denominator that I'm seeing for failed/failing companies is like you said appeasement to the shareholders and game companies trying to be tech companies as well.

[@jonahrodrigues]

34:29 Worst part of the video

[@moshunit96]

As far as ea's sports games go how many times can you rebox the same game and call it new year after year?