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[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Wow the one that has the internet hyped? How fucking blind can EA be??

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

EA has a history of making cool games and then meddling with it to becoming hot garbage. I'm okay with this.

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

The moment I saw EA was in charge, it dropped off my radar.

Fuck EA.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I mean, do you think it would have lived up to the hype? Maybe EA looked at the work in progress and realized it was going to be a shitty game. Maybe it was bland or boring or poorly optimized. There have been a string of high-profile disasters, and maybe EA didn't want to be the latest in a trend?

Would you prefer they finish developing and then release a shitty game?

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Generic EA hate aside, they want to drive away from licensed IP. Their latest burn was FIFA, which was a long legacy of earning for EA with little to nothing effort... then they broke with FIFA (the organization) and now a big chunk of their historical earning is scrapped away.

The logic here is: "if the game is good, I bring more value to Disney, but then that fricking mouse (the non CC0) can kick me out and switch my press-work to the franchaise (on SW universe) to a company that directly compete with me (ie: Ubisoft)".

Aside from this: fuck EA.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

Good video on some other drawbacks to licensed game dev https://youtu.be/SdJCrgSXAW0?si=qtdrhzSFXmQPaUjC