@Magikf1ngers Word! I don't need all those Battle Royal kindergardens. Titanfall 2 is the only online FPS I still play. I was looking forward to playing Battlefield 2042, but I won't buy anything until TF2 is fixed. It's bad enough that we don't get a Titanfall 3, that's already a big slap in the face of TF2 fans. And I really don't understand it. Yes, the release was botched, but I've never heard anyone who played TF2 say anything bad about the game. And the recent stream of new players (a lot of them came from Apex) should be a sign that a sequel should be quite successful no matter what. The Frontier universe is an established brand now. But no, they won't even deal with a single hacker or at least respond to the community because the milk cow is old and dry.
Unfortunately, the target audience of EA actually *is* those kids who spend their parents' money on whatever crap that's being hyped at the moment and then forget about it half a year later, ready to buy the next crap. There's also a gigantic blob of casual players who play FIFA, Sims, maybe some Battlefield every full moon... people who don't engage in communities, don't read the media, don't play multiple times a week... people who don't want to hear about loot box drama or some niche game being hacked. People who are just happy to spend their money on the 10th, 11th, 12th installment every year without having to put too much thought into it. As long as those people keep feeding them, EA is doing just fine and they can afford to ignore smaller/older titles, including the few thousand people who are still playing them.
One might think that one single, mentally unstable guy completely destroying two of their beloved games might damage their reputation in the long run. But their reputation has been among the worst in the industry since forever and they can affort to just roll with it.
I also remember times when the "Arts" in Electronic Arts stood for something, but those days are long gone and it's just another big factory somewhere in the world...
