Nemeski
GamesEA has been dead for over a decade honestly. With the new Saudi owners they are just being turned into a zombie.
Holy shit you aren't kidding!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games:_2020%E2%80%93present
I'm looking at the releases and honestly none of those games are Day 1 must buy for me.
Honestly, I think the Saudis bought it for the sports games. And those games are pretty cookie cutter and they sell well thanks to the chuds.
Most of it seems to be remasters, sequels and EA Sports Game <inser year>.
Isn't EA mathematically doomed to die off due to the absurd amount of profit they need to pay off the debt the saudis put on them so that they could own them? Like, who cares about actually working there, you're as good as already laid off. The sword of damocles is swinging.
I mean, you were working for ea
EA was relatively progressive no? You can disagree with their market strategy but it was a liberal, western company.
Even "baiting with progressiveness for profit" matches the pattern of western company.
Despite assurances from management, some workers believe the company will be subject to censorship by its new owners.
Assurances from anyone with an MBA are worth less than nothing. They are professional liars. They pretend they aren't with the bullshit "optimism isn't lies", except it absolutely is when you KNOW your optimistic interpretation is bullshit. It's like that Dr. Nick bit.
Dr. Nick: "With my diet, you can eat anything you want, any time you want!"
Marge: "And you'll lose weight?"
Dr. Nick: "You might! It's a free country!"
Assurances from anyone with an MBA
What about assurances from MBS?
If it benefits the company to lie about impending layoffs, then management will lie. It's baffling how many people have difficulty with this concept.
I don’t know why you got downvoted. This is a valid point.
It’s almost as if people who will “toe the line” are more likely to get promoted to management. Until the leopards come for them as well.
When has EA ever been in alignment with progressive society?
They’re in alignment with a sense of pride and accomplishment, I guess?
Ever since Dragon Age Origins? Their published games ever since then have been incredibly LGBT safe.
Wasn't that BioWare?
Published by EA, they'll allow anything that makes their investors happy and they push for that.
EA owns BioWare, and has since 2007. Dragon Age came out in 2009.
Still was developed by BioWare and not EA.
That's how these big companies work, they have multiple studios working on multiple games. You still expect the subsidiaries to mostly mirror the top end.
EA will just shut down a studio if they don't like what they are doing. BioWare is mostly responsible for dragon age. EA helped but not with the original game. My brother worked on that game for months, EA was basically the distributor
EA has always employed warming kettle strategy. Buy an awesome and beloved independent studio, let them just keep doing awesome stuff, and then go "well, looks like you're not keeping up with our growth targets, guys, guess we need to keep a closer eye on how you're doing." And again. And again.
June 1st to June 30th. They highlight the lipsevice to LGBT stuff in dragon age
They put "art" in their name, thought it was enough concessions to the unproductive concept called "culture" and then they made sure to focus on compensating this benevolent act by creating as many shitty products as possible.
Historical tangent: Electronic Arts was originally supposed to be named "Electronic Artists" (as a play on United Artists, the film company). The whole reason the company was founded was because Atari and Activision made game designers anonymous cogs in the machine. EA was like "we'll actually pay solid compensations and we'll actually put your name on the cover, how's that sound?" But, of course, the founders noticed that they weren't the artists in question, the game designers were, so they changed it.
I've been 'fuck EA' for a long time, but this buyout has guaranteed I'll never touch another of their games again under any circumstances.
I’ll never touch another of their games again under any circumstances.
What about the circumstance of having pirated the game?
I'll allow it.
That shit better be sandboxed and air gapped.
Do they have any worth the effort?
You're asking the wrong question. They absolutely have games that are worth the effort, the question is "will they make new games that worth the effort?"
It's surprising that isn't obvious.
Jamal Khashoggi
Beheadings, shooting people with impunity, monarchism, modern slavery, being the origin country of the most 9/11 hijackers, underaged arranged marriages, paying random women and girls from the Internet to go over there and then literally shitting on them. Buying children from Trump to sex traffic... and yes, using violence and torture to surpress journalism and political dissent.
the origin country of the most 9/11 hijackers
That's underselling it.
If I remember correctly, all but one of them were Saudi.
15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the UAE, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.
Ah, okay. So only 4 who weren't Saudis.
Also ... I'm detecting a notable lack of Afghanistan on that list...
Yeah, but I think they were mostly living in Afghanistan prior to the attack.
They all traveled through countries (passport stamped and all) deemed not allowed for Saudi Arabia > United States travel. The Saudis allowed them to move freely. That was the detail that has stuck with me from the 9/11 commission report.
I thought they met and planned in Saudi
Rich greedy assholes gotta ruin everything...
Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society
... and EA was the bastion of rights and good treatment of people before?
Best thing they can do is quit. Tech workers that continue to stay employed at places like this and military contractors, have no excuse.
gaming and the tech market arnt exactly hiring in large numbers anymore. they might not even find another job if they quit.
I mean paying for your place and food till you get a different job seems like a reason.
That is why they should not quit on the spot. Start applying for job postings and quit once they have a new offer in hand.
Yeah the job market is abysmal right now. I can't blame them at all if they have nowhere else to go.
I want you to know it did not take me long to find this.
Yeah, this can’t be a partisan thing. That’s just feeding into the same nonsense division governments manufacture. It has to cross those aisles and educate folks on the fact that all working class are in the same battle against the same collective ruling class around the world. We’re seeing authoritarian regimes forming around the world and they are working together. We have to do the same.
You, 2 weeks ago. Emphasis mine.
So worker solidarity and all that, but "employees who don't hold shares, including many who are classified as "'temporary fulltime,'" don't count. Just like they don't count for healthcare and labor protections. They're just villains eh?
Well, one way or another, I agree with something you said. It's just unfortunate you don't.
Have you seen the state of the games industry? Layoffs everywhere, not sure there’s too many places to jump ship to
Because affording housing and food is such a non-excuse. AI and mass tech layoffs already, but hey, throw away your job before you have a new one just to appease the morally injured. Same shit in every industry.
Ooh damn, is this about Intel? /S
Lube up boys
You are the fucking problem if you have stuck around this long. Seriously, the Battlefront II remake was the last straw for me.
Better late than never.
