Welp - I'm out
Change the 4k player count remaining on steam to 3,999 - your friend Moist has had enough. Fiancee got me the mega * version for 100$. Not even sure what extra content if anything that got me. Ga...
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EA has a long history of spreading itself across the game industry, gorging itself on smaller companies, like some angry binging octopus. Most of those companies were bought up because they had developed a successful game series, with a strong loyal fanbase. Once EA is at the helm, changes are made to the series, in efforts to appeal to "broader audiences". This results in bad sales, which often results in EA closing the company that they bought and then sitting on the IP, preventing anyone else from continuing the series.
This pissed off all fans of said studios/game series and has given EA a reputation of being money making grubholders that destroy smaller successful companies and stifle creativity in an otherwise creative business.
Examples of game studios that were bought up and some of them closed by EA (and list of famous games made by them):
Bullfrog Productions - Known for Populous, Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Wars and Dungeon Keeper.
Origin Systems - Known for Wing Commander and the Ultima series.
Westwood Studios - Known for the Command & Conquer series.
Maxis - Known for SimCity and The Sims.
Pandemic Studios - Known for StarWars Battlefront.
And offcourse…
DICE - Known for the Battlefield series.
And this is exactly what is happening now with our beloved franchise battlefield. 2042 is the low point of the series!
This is what makes EA the grinch of gaming…
(source: quora.com)
- @cornybbq2 I would also add the Nascar Racing Series games from Papyrus to your list, a long running racing-sim series (1994-2003) that EA purchased then killed off once it bought them out and made it into a cartoony Mario-Kart version.
I purchased the game after not one but two discounts. I played for 2 evenings forcing myself into thinking that I`m on the bright side of the future, being a "good guy". I came back to BF2, BF4, and 1. BF2042 is not bad as a game, but a terrible game as Battlefield.
My mates resigned after one of them experienced between 20-42 FPS, another lost his patience after a realization that there are no unlocks of weapon attachments in PORTAL, another has sunk under textures in a tank on the bridge... quick alt+F4. My problem with poorly designed Lobby aka no Squad Management has been solved at that point - I don`t have anyone to play with so the next attempt is in April.
@cornybbq2 another great studio which was shut down years ago is BlackBox. They made those Need for Speed games that are still loved to this day like Underground, Most Wanted (the good one from 2005), etc. Nowadays Need for Speed is pretty much a dead franchise with some game releases every now and then. But the games are pretty much launched just to be forgotten within no time at all.
This, and I have said it a couple of times already will also happen to Battlefield. The best days of this franchise are long gone and it merely exists because the brand value is still too high to let it die. Too many players still buy these games in anticipation of reliving what they fell in love with years ago. But those times are gone and they will most likely never return. So may great EA franchises that have endend up into meaninglessness.
- @NarrowSpeedo It boggles my mind why a ‘gaming’ company would be so toxic and destructive towards its own marked… wouldn’t there be more money to be made if you keep you’re successfull franchises alive and healthy? Or am i just completely wrong about this…
