Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zaghadka Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why' Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:37:55 -0500 Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC Lines: 57 Message-ID: <9obttjdb8r4urg8okftd2qvmkh3cjfj3ks@4ax.com> References: <4m4mtjprurdepapddt23ul8kfdmu7cspjp@4ax.com> Reply-To: zaghadka@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:37:56 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="150897a2b824cf9278a19262f257316b"; logging-data="4172631"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/YuyQjXVpyTg9CSQbhwd6KVGt1AaBX8nk=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Ch7/CNgG+XRWG72EDPb66Ptpic= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 3643 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 This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)