EA has had a rough year of game cancellations, poor receptions, studio closures, and loot box controversies. But that's all in the past. The company's shuffling its executive team and promising to do better.
As long as EA has FIFA they have zero incentive to change their business practice. All their other IPs are just icing on their mountainous stacks of money.
@Zawhomafu And buying out good dev's, gutting their franchises for cash and leaving a smouldering heap of a dumpster fire behind as all the good dev's leave for anything at all (because anything is better than EA - except, possibly, though don't quote me on it, the Russian Mafia.)
EA has been saying this pretty much as soon as they were created... but once they got ahold of those sports franchises they just don't give a F about anyone or anything else as most sports fans are so obsessed that they will buy any old C from EA every year that it is released (and that is definitely every year) even more blindly than those who buy CoD. And if you don't believe me then you better check those figures... there was even back to back years for an F1 game where the driver roster only changed by a couple of almost nobodies but the game itself was in the same engine and had no other changes and it still sold almost as well as normal - that doesn't make any sense at all but sports fans gotta keep current!?!
@RiverRunning I've been saying this for a while now as well. I play NHL, and the games are identical with each iteration, just with roster changes. Why not make those games a service like Overwatch, GTA, R6 Siege etc. where the gameplay stays the same, if you want more content its there to purcase
@vinniepaz420 That actually makes a hell of a lot more sense than all the games they force microtrans into now, in fact it looks purpose made for it, and yet they don't do it... probably because they can make more money by selling the same game full price because sports fans buy it? (Which would make them even more gullible than the whales and kids that support microtrans in non-sports games.) *sigh* Like my dad always said "The perversity of the Universe tends to the maximum"; this is a perfect illustration of that.
I can't say I trust them, they and Disney have ruined Star Wars for me. SWTOR was destroyed by loot boxes long before Battle Front 2 came out. SWTOR is where old Trolls go to die b/c of how EA handles things. that is just one example but in my gaming life since Atari 2600 EA is the worse video Game company still running. I remember things they purchased and then destroyed for 3 Decades so I will believe it when I see it.