There was a golden age long ago... But alas, those times are forgotten by all but a few, the glory of ancient days has long since tarnished and decayed.
You can pin point when things started to go south, Battlefield 1 was abolute peak as a DICE and EA game... Now just look one year forward in 2017 with the Battlefront II microtranscation controversy, yeah, they backed away from that decision, but from that point on it all went downhill...
Their name is the opposite of what they put out a majority of the time. Even now I'm struggling to think of an exception to that besides Jedi fallen order/survivor
No I’M old, I was playing games in the 80’s as a kid. Games that are ultra simplistic compared to even 90s games. The 90’s was just the explosion especially after Doom
It was a banger of a name, when it was a company who pledged in their mission statement "to become the world leader in the video games industry by releasing the best games in the world."
Shame they changed it to "to become the world leader in the video games industry by exclusive licensing."
Funny how these things submit to semantic satiation and we all forget what the words actually mean.
My favourite ever business names from this point of view were George Lucas’ VFX firm Industrial Light & Magic, and the architecture firm Future Systems.
I think it's important to remember that company is just a facade.
We as gamers keep being a shocked pikachu that a game company X, that probably replaced most of its staff two times over since release of "that cult classic game", does not push the industry envelope anymore.
Thankfully, they sold out more traditionally and focused on raking in cash from Steam instead of going bankrupt creatively. At least they don't dishonour their previous titles that way... :B
A cynical might argue that Electronic Arts never forgot about their roots(Basically, they exploded because Nintendo didn't allow developers that made games for their consoles to make games for the Sega Genesis)
They were kinda cool during the Trip Hawkins era, they considered the developers "artists" and actually put them forward to the advertisement in a time when developers barely got credit. They also shared profits with their developers back then.
the thing is they started as a banger company that prioritized the creativity of their creators... you just live long enough to turn into the bad guy...
Back in the late 90s, EA was still pretty good. idk when that changed because I fell off from gaming for a few years around 2002 but when I came back they were hot garbage. Sad to see
Unfortunately most game studios are run by publishers with no soul. They're not interested in making good games, only money & how best to squeeze every last penny.
I'm old enough to remember when they were. When they were first starting out, they were this upstart little company pumping out AWESOME games, their name was a seal of quality. Then...the internet happened.
The games industry would be a much better place if the likes of EA hadn't seen it as a race to the top and bought all the good studios up and destroyed them. Capitalism sucks. It destroys creativism.
Yeah. As a game dev, the discourse around BG3 was really interesting. Because the truth is that most devs I've worked with have so much passion for making games with that kind of depth and quality. But then publishers start talking about business needs, budgets, time tables, focus groups, etc...
The developers at EA are genuinely great. The people working there are worn down husks (I use to serve food to some of them).
The suits are the worst kinds of businessmen imaginable. Damn the world for an extra 5cent profit.
I don't even hate them because they're lazy ot because they're greedy fucks, my hatred is purely selfish because I hate them for making the fifa/fc games, made me lose my fucking MINDS they did
Also for some odd reason Ubisoft is "Ubiquitous Software"....... which after finding that out and thinking it over it makes sense cause they come with alot of bullshit too lol 🤔
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But they lived to become a villain :/
Shame they changed it to "to become the world leader in the video games industry by exclusive licensing."
I honestly stopped playing any and all EA games a few years back, there's only so much B.S. one can be exposed too before you walk away.
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This is from the infamous "ea_spouse" letter:
https://bytecellar.com/2015/11/28/we-see-farther-a-tribute-to-the-ea-that-once-was/
My favourite ever business names from this point of view were George Lucas’ VFX firm Industrial Light & Magic, and the architecture firm Future Systems.
We as gamers keep being a shocked pikachu that a game company X, that probably replaced most of its staff two times over since release of "that cult classic game", does not push the industry envelope anymore.
People matter
Then they corrupted and their core rotted.
You die a hero, or etc etc.
CD Projekt Red did the same, sadly.
I will NEVER forgive them for Bullfrog.
I wonder how many lifetimes ago that was.
All their early games: Archon, Hard Hat Mack, Marble Madness, were simplistic by today’s standards but they were the best when I was a kid.
Now it's the exact opposite.
The suits are the worst kinds of businessmen imaginable. Damn the world for an extra 5cent profit.
That and their complete inability to make a sports game that doesn't shamelessly exploit young people, among many other things lol