Well-written and spot on, but wishing EA will do better is pointless. If one wishes to see how communism destroys creativity, one needs to look no further than the products produced by EA Sports! No competition means people have no choice. MLB the Show is another example of a lack of competition stifling creativity in the video game industry. When 2k was making baseball games, the competitive edge between 2K and San Diego Studios fostered creativity and produced innovations that led to better games each year. Now, there is no rival to MLB The Show and each year, it is nothing but a copied, pasted, and polished product. However, one can only polish the same **bleep** so many times before crap lands on everything. Madden/College football and MLB The Show are crap-shoots, and until consumers come together and boycott these companies and products, they will never change because the name of the American money game is this: Maximum profit with minimal effort. That is, these video game producers collect millions (sometimes billions), by having their programmers copy and paste for a bottom line. The problem is that this maximum profit/minimal effort mentality corrupts everything it touches. Thus, the programmers themselves say, "Hey, Im not getting paid what I think I deserve, so I am going to extend just enough effort to get by...". And because of that mentality, which is common place these days, we see games released with more bugs than a New York roach motel, and, consequently, producers have to provide major incentives for the games to be fixed in a short time after release (i.e. overtime). Ultimately, true creativity takes hard work and maximum effort and many times, ctreativity may not deliver a big payday. Generally, American consumers (myself included) are lazy, which is why products are created by someone else and bought by us. Therefore, we have products reflective of our sloth. EA Sports is a company full of fat, lazy executives who care about one thing: Getting fatter and finding more ways to rest their fat butts upon the backs of others.
This may have been too philosophical, and I am sorry. I am simply fed up with corporations and the general lack of creativity everywhere. I mean, how many damned Batman or Superman movies are they going to make? Kryptonite is the only thing that can kill Superman...how many variations can be derived from that plot? The bottom line is monopolies are not good and should be eliminated or at the very least, heavily regulated! Take care and best wishes!