EA_Aljo rtwing89 I myself am someone who likes to ideate new and different gameplay mechanics and controls (take a look at my profile to see my original posts—you may like some of what you see). Naturally, I have a strong bias for my own ideas and think they’d be “the best thing” for the game, so I completely understand your enthusiasm for your ideas, and I even get the protective feelings you may have over your ideas.
But you need to be realistic with your expectations— even if EA were to spend the time reviewing your ideas and taking them into consideration, a company (as large as EA or even a small start up) is unlikely to run with the ideas let alone compensate or even credit you for your ideas. To get credit or compensation, you’d need to have a truly patentable idea and even a proof of concept to approach a company with; and frankly, even if they really liked your idea, they probably would look to develop it on their own rather than do business with an “entrepreneur” with a single idea. Even as an employee of the company, you’re going to have a tough time getting recognized or compensated for conceptual contributions… this is just the reality of business at large.
The best you can hope for is starting a conversation amongst the community and hope it gains enough attention and traction to snowball into something large enough that would be taken up by EA. Or, less practically, you could try to actually develop your idea into your own game (effectively building that proof of concept that I mentioned earlier), but of course this is going to take a lot of time and money and may ultimately be fruitless.
So, again, your best bet is to just share your ideas with the community here and see if it sparks any inspiration. I’m not trying to burst your bubble, but rather I am trying to encourage you to share your ideas openly in hopes it breathes new life into something new and refreshing rather than suffocating in the clutches of your protection.
