@Magikf1ngers"If that's not greed - I don't know what is." Because I am capitalist by principle, I do not see the flaws in greed. We are all greedy. If not, we would be such humble, that we would make no progress at all. Humbleness is a nice personal value, but not, if you want to have a striving economy and progress. One would need to examine the market in deepth to see what is going wrong (I think there is a lot going wrong in all markets, btw.).
Personally, it hurts me a lot, when games like Titanfall, Anthem or Mirror's Edge, with so much potential and good ideas, are dumped into trifle. Let it be greed, okay. But why is the greed not focused on making a genius product and get a golden nose with many people buying the franchise for decades? I do not see the entrepreneur thinking behind making a bad product, selling it to only a fraction of people and get the hate of the deceived and disappointed consumers for it. If I would be an entrepreneur, it would hurt my honor.
It is the problem of all monopolies and lack of competition (" It's been really good until EA took over management of DICE." There you have it.). Without competition, you have no incentive to constantly strive to be better - in product as well as in business - because there is no other, which could be better than you and eventually push you out of the market. The people will buy your stuff anyway. Monopolies existens in the market, but the market theory sees them short lived because of the model of the "* economicus", which unfortunatly does not existens in reality. The people are not rational thinking and so the market is very slow to remove monopolies. As long as the people buy EA products and there is no threat for their business, so long this policy of EA will exist.
Take me, for example. I bought Anthem for a few bugs lately and still play it. Why? Because I like the game and the setting (I am a fan of such scifi mech- or suit stuff), because there is no other game like it. I like being a mercenery Iron Man on Pandora and have the freedom to simply fly around and look, what the next corner brings me. But it hurts me so much, that the game is not better or lied about what they promised on the E3. I would bought it for full prise and recommended it to my friends, if it would be, like they promised.
Same with Titanfall 2. The story is genius. Works well for a singleplayer game and even better for a multiplayer game (How many multiplayer games have a good singleplayer story?). Watched tutorials to become better for MP and boom, does not work. I regret buying it, because I dived so much into the story and world, that I wanted more.
@Magikf1ngers"Success is defined by having a lucrative company. You can get that by investing in a good product, awesome customer service, and building customer loyalty. I've seen it, I've worked in advertising and helped companies do that. It works." I fully aggree. "... the United States is currently demonstrating since so much of the country's wealth is teetering with the top 1%." This has other causes, like the central banking and the money system as well as financial policies. No topic for a gaming forum. "... they're showing they don't actually care about customers." Right and except for the state 😉, we can get rid of a company, which treads us badly by simply refuse to consume.
