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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why'
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:37:55 -0500
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:47:31 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
wrote: 

>On 19/03/2025 19:15, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> 
>> In a recent interview, founder of Hazelight Studios wrote that his
>> company --developer of the recently released "Split Fiction" game,
>> which has been getting quite good reviews - has had a very good
>> relationship with publisher Electronic Arts, and that he doesn't
>> understand why it receives so much hate.*
>> 
>> Oh, you innocent summer child, shall I count the ways? Bullfrog.
>> Origin. Westwood. Mythic. Visceral. Pandemic. Great studios all,
>> bought out and shut down by the beast.
>> 
>> Not enough? Lootboxes. Microtransactions. Endless live-service
>> madness. In-game gambling.
>> 
>> There's more, of course. Origin, or the EA App, or whatever that drek
>> they keep shoving in our face is called. The disastrous debut of
>> "Spore", with its onerous 5-installations-forever limit. Or 'there's
>> no way it could possibly run without an always-on online-connection'
>> release of "SimCity" in 2013.
>> 
>> Shall I mention games like "Ultima Forever", a terrible MTX heavy
>> mobile game that shat upon the Ultima legacy (followed up with similar
>> assassinations of the "Command & Conquer" and "Dungeon Keeper" games)?
>> Or the publisher's insistence, against developers preferences, that
>> their in-house Frostbite engine be used in games that would have been
>> better off using something else. Or just all of its half-assed sports
>> titles, each little more than a minor revision of the previous but
>> with a more current roster and incompatible with last year's MTX
>> purchases.
>> 
>> Or maybe it's just how they mistreated their employees, earning the
>> corporation the 'worst company in America' title over multiple years.
>> It's constant battles against SAG-AFRTA for not paying its
>> voice-actors? The disastrous handling of their feud with
>> West/Zampella? The massive layoffs the company keeps performing even
>> as its profits soar?
>> 
>> 
>> No, I can't imagine why people have such a dim view of the publisher.
>> It's great that Hazelight has a great relationship with EA, but most
>> people aren't just looking at 'how a company deals with its partners'
>> but at the overall picture, and EA does not come out of that
>> examination smelling like roses. It's earned its reputation.
>> 
>
>But besides all of that what have EA done wrong?

They also killed Princess Diana. Or so I've been told.

-- 
Zag

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