the dark legacy of cashing out

“E! A! Sports! It’s inhumane!”

Company is worth of 50 billion, while everyone hates it these days?

Being worthy doesn't mean they are doing good things.

It only shows that their business model is creating value for the people who matters to the detriment of others.

Yeah, the point is that you don't have to make good product or even be liked these days. All you need is a forced social inertia.

People don’t like to hear it but they make products people want and those products are acceptable enough in quality.

The millions of people who play FIFA, Madden, and Battlefield don’t sit around on niche forums bashing EA for not making enough innovative indie-style titles.

EA even puts out titles that are legitimately critically acclaimed every once in a while (Split Fiction as a recent example).

>bashing EA for not making enough innovative indie-style titles

Its not even that, both Mass Effect and Dragon Age are fantastic series with latest games being mediocre at best. If they did the same thing as before it would be more successful, so they clearly don't know what is the right thing for the customers.

The final state of Mass Effect Andromeda was arguably a solid game after the most embarrassing well-publicized bugs got patched (“mostly positive” on Steam) The story may not be the best but there really isn’t anything wrong with the gameplay.

Dragon Age: Veilguard was actually a solid game, and it got review-bombed by angry right-wingers. It does make some traditionalist fans upset but it’s not some kind of disaster like it’s been painted to be.

Its not about being "solid game", it did not match EA's own sales expectations - thats all. If "angry right-wingers" can make your game fail then maybe you don't understand your target audience, which is what I am talking about.

People forget that most 'gamers' aren't the hardcore terminally online strong opinion type you'll find in internet forums. Most are playing FIFA, Madden, and various other sports games. They don't have any opinion on EA other than "that's that company that makes the cool games I like".

It was already dislike because video game fans are a fickle bunch. Now it's own by investors that are likely to run it into the ground, and maybe add some politics to the whole affair while they ride the crashing plane