EA Games are planning to shut down old games servers starting April 13, 2012. Read below for more details.
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
... you buy a product that advertises with ONLINE FUNCTIONALITY.
Thus that shouldn't be taken out.
I wonder what will happen once the current games which use ONLINE PASSES get older, and they pull the plug on the online. What about the people who have just purchased a 2nd hand game and an online pass for 10 bucks, and a few weeks/months later, the online disappears!?!?
Why isn't there a law about this. Aren't consumer rights being violated here!?
When you think about it, it's downright disgusting that you pay to play games online on Xbox Live, but then publishers can shut down the servers anyway. What exactly are those subscription fees paying for? It was shameful when the servers for Chromehounds were pulled down, and as somebody that loves Burnout Revenge I'm pretty frustrated that yet another game I love is having the online functionality taken away.
It only seems to be EA doing this on a regular basis.
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I hate EA, wish they could've added some form of peer to peer connection.
This and Battlefield 2 MC were pretty much my most played games when I bought my 360 years ago, did enjoy going back to them every so often.
Here's hoping for them to rerelease Takedown or Revenge as XBLA games at some point.