spartanlocke:

dunstun:

decade-dance:

spartanlocke:

Thought I’d share this since there are apparently people in my midst who think it’s ok to support a greedy company who’s deliberately destroyed hundreds of careers just because you think their shiny new FPS looks cool. 

(Also, fun fact: forcing Bioware to make a game of a genre they have no experience with is the exact same thing they did to kill Command & Conquer.)

People, I don’t usually add to posts but HOLY SHIT is it important you recognize just how -evil- EA is. 

If you aren’t able to read the article, EA killed single-handedly some of the greatest studios from the 90s all the way to the new tens.

And often how they killed a studio? Force them to make a game in a genre that they have no experience working with.

Origin Systems? Killed by the one-two punch of Ultima 8 (a platformer isometric hack ‘n’ slash) and Ultima IX (a buggy unfinished mess EA meddled with constantly).  Their usual games? Flight simulators and complex RPGs with extensive worldbuilding and mechanics.

Dreamworks Interactive? Forced to develop Call of Duty knockoffs in the rebooted Medal of Honor series. Their usual work? WWII shooters with a cinematic focus, James Bond games, stuff that felt like movies. Killed by Warfighter’s terrible launch.

Westwood? Invented the RTS as we know it with Dune II and Command & Conquer. Killed by EA forcing them to make the FPS Command & Conquer: Renegade. Their usual games? RTS.

Maxis: The Sims. SimCity. EA forced online-only and microtransactions into the last SimCity and the Sims 4, respectively. Both tanked (moreso SimCity) and rather than take the blame for their greed, EA closed Maxis.

Visceral Entertainment: The Dead Space guys. EA once more forced microtransactions and multiplayer into Dead Space 3, and removed much of the horror. EA then declared for Dead Space to survive it would have to sell 5 million copies–an absurd sales figure by almost anyone’s standards. They were forced to make a Battlefield game, Hardline, a cops and robbers reskin of 4 that didn’t really catch on or make waves, and thus were shut down–but not before half the team was forced to working on DLCs and a select few on a Star Wars game that was ultimately cancelled.

Bottom line, EA is AWFUL. Just…do not buy from them. Do not encourage them.

Between them and Activision, you have everything wrong with the gaming industry.

I read this as ‘EA killed’ and thought that they had put out a hit on someone

Tbh they might as well have