Re:Origin Sells Out
by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:30PM
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> I've never understood the cynical way certain people view EA from the outside.
Then you haven't been paying attention. I'm a gamer, so I see the criticisms all over the place.
> EA is a large business (~30B market cap) and subject to the same sorts of challenges of any business at that scale.
There are plenty of entertainment companies with much larger market caps that have succeeded without relying on getting children to gamble.
> From my perspective EA is a federation of mostly autonomous studios trying to "find the fun" in an increasingly competitive entertainment landscape.
Replace "find the fun" with "find the money", and completely scratch out anything to do with autonomy, and you'd be correct.
> Even if you manage to create a compelling core experience, bringing that to market is a challenge even at EA's scale.
The vast number of successful indie developers would like a word with you.
Honestly, your comment just reeks of being out-dated. Everything you said may have been true 20 years ago. In the 90's, I would have considered EA to be a respectable studio. But today? They're the most anti-consumer company out there, even worse than Comcast.
Then you haven't been paying attention. I'm a gamer, so I see the criticisms all over the place.
> EA is a large business (~30B market cap) and subject to the same sorts of challenges of any business at that scale.
There are plenty of entertainment companies with much larger market caps that have succeeded without relying on getting children to gamble.
> From my perspective EA is a federation of mostly autonomous studios trying to "find the fun" in an increasingly competitive entertainment landscape.
Replace "find the fun" with "find the money", and completely scratch out anything to do with autonomy, and you'd be correct.
> Even if you manage to create a compelling core experience, bringing that to market is a challenge even at EA's scale.
The vast number of successful indie developers would like a word with you.
Honestly, your comment just reeks of being out-dated. Everything you said may have been true 20 years ago. In the 90's, I would have considered EA to be a respectable studio. But today? They're the most anti-consumer company out there, even worse than Comcast.