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5 years ago

Now we can put more blame on Respawn!

EA Is Putting the Future of its Franchises, Including Titanfall, into its Studios' Hands - IGN Including Apex! EA still have their fingers in the pies making the ultimate decisions but at least it'l...

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hayhor

Hero

5 years ago

@apostolateofDOOMUmmm the overall directive of all companies still comes from the top so 🤷‍♂️

If anything this is a copout from their management basically telling customers to attack the people actually working on the product that care.

I've been in that position before and it sucks. You know what is needed but the company will not do what they need to do but give lip service to customers.

pastaclown

5 years ago

@hayhor Well you know how it is with people at the top. It's the Titanic all over again, they get the boats, everybody else swims. Give you five dollars it's just a PR stunt cause they've been in hot water for a while for killing off studios, so they're just trying to scrub their hands free and pretend like they didn't do anything at all.

My heart goes out to the Anthem fans, that game looked like it had a lot of potential, and now it seems like a guttered project.

hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@pastaclown I know. My point is attacking the people actually making the product doesnt help anyone. But it seems like their corporate want it to be that way.
- pastaclown
  5 years ago
  @hayhor I think Respawn gets a lot of deserved hate, but I have no doubt that EA is controlling certain aspects from the shadows. Slow development and poor direction? Totally Respawn. Crappy servers and predatory pricing? Could be Respawn, could be EA. But it especially doesn't make sense to me that something as financially successful as Apex would just be left to dry in the sun and stifled by the people at the top.
  Then again, the Atlantis Disney movie was an extremely well received piece of art (though I don't believe it was as financially successful) and the higher ups at Disney kicked the production team in the junk any moment they could.