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The Mass [Layoff] Effect
The offices are now just a Dead Space.
Former engineers are referred to as Apex Legends.
This is great news, soon there will be no EA!
Perfect timing and a fitting fate, considering they are now owned by blood oil kings and nazi's
So no change, really.
EA died a long time ago.
It think they were talking about the undead monster one.
I know, I know and everyone defines a different time when it happened. But it's time for the zombie to.. leave.
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Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe the last thing they would do is sell off the up to better firms.
It would be if not all the wrong people profited from it.
Wouldn't that be just the CEO, then?
I just realized I haven't played an EA game in over a decade. SW Battlefront II was the last one, and it felt like a downgrade from the 2005 version.
I mean, are there any of their titles that have made an impact in the last decade? I can't think of any other than sports and racing games.
It Takes Two and Split Fiction were published by EA.
I also played Titanfall 2 which was a great little campaign.
That's about it for me.
Once upon a time when Infinity Ward's founders left Activision because of "Activision", and formed Respawn with EA, I felt EA were still the good guys in the industry. The Titanfall games were amazing.
After APEX Legends came out, I feel EA used up most of their Good Karma that they had built in the past.
Their new owners pretty much only care about the sports games
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"We're going to have AI write all the games now"
~ some exec
AI told me we can do it!
They're not a game company anymore. It's getting the Toys R Us treatment. They're a debt vehicle. They're gonna borrow against its value, place all the debt into EA while pocketing the cash, and let it die.
If we're lucky, they'll sell off the studios and IP before cutting it loose.
In this whole ordeal that has been EA ... I can't remember a single instance where they tried to do the right thing by listening to the consumer, or employees for that matter.
It's amazing they are still around even. Die quicker pls.
The sheer power of licensing hey
They own the rights to madden and college game day, those two alone can keep the doors open
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Oligarchs oligarching. Every “publisher” and “developer” is firing everyone and are gonna very quickly vanish once it’s remembered that perpetual motion is impossible.
Private Equity 101, "buy" a business using borrowed money, put all the debt on the company you "bought", slash costs, sell off assets, have the company declare bankruptcy and take all the debt with it, rince and repeat... Profit.
Nobody has ever been able to explain to me why this is legal
And as if that wasn't an insult to the middle class, people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can borrow against their stock holdings as if they were real assets, yet never be taxed on the value. But if you borrow against the value of your house, YOU get taxed on that value.
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People are still buying EA:s unfinished games? Wow.
I admit that they got me a few times, but I quickly learned not to buy from them again.
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EA sucks ass, hopefully this is the beginning of the end.
EA, it's in the grave.
My only hope is EA dies soon and some other devs take up and resurrect ME and DA
Honestly like why? I don't believe either property really needs to continue. Why must everything be an IP.. those games are OLD.. the good ones at least. Let it die.
Mass Effect was really just Bioware not wanting to pay for Star Wars again. Why not do the same and make a new Mass Effect worthy IP?
The trilogy told the story. Andromeda didnt really add much.
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Unfortunately I'm pretty sure all this will lead to now they they aren't beholden to quarterly growth but rather can become a sustained money printer is cutting anything except the sims, battlefield, and their sports cash cows, and recycling those every year even more than they do now, since people regularly buy those every time a new version (or in the case of the sims expansion) is released
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Yah, i expect not to buy anymore EA games. They had a good run i guess.
Mind you I haven't played many anyway lately.
A good run that ended a long time ago
At least 25 years ago.
So which studios will die this time?
All.
I'm shocked... /s
Just trimming some fat (and a leg or two)
Hopefully they will combine the company with Neom so a future romantic poet finds the ruins amid the sands and wonders at the hubris of it.
🤞please sell off BioWare so i can play Mass Effect again.
Nothing’s stopping you from playing mass effect.
Why does everyone want sequels so badly? Are you all so attached to your nostalgia?
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Been playing Electronic Arts games since the 1980’s.
Even if they are a shit company, Nice knowing ya.
And nothing of real value to gamers will be lost.
Last EA game I played was Skate and that shit was free.
They didn't waste any time, did they?
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