There have been some conversations breaking out all over the net defending EA a bit because Frostbite 2 didn’t have very good initial tests and as such, Frostbite 3 “can’t” support the platform. EA has gotten a lot of flak over SimCity, but people are starting to actually give them a pass for the lack of support to Nintendo consoles. Hey, it’s the Wii U – it’s not as powerful as PS4 so it’s really not a Next-Generation console anyways!
Well, EA said it indeed was a next generation console.
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.
EA likes to make profit on software and lately they haven't on Nintendo platforms
I'm sorry, but to be honest, I do not think anything bad will happen to nintendo. If sales of nintendo "wii u" are not increased, then the life support will be the "3DS" (already sold better than sega genesis, the atari 2600 and the first xbox. Http://goo.gl/rKPLF)
EA clearly do not like Nintendo or the Wii U, have you seen the articles on this site in the past day or two?
EA are making zero games for the Wii U, they're not putting Frostbite 2 on it, and an EA Sports engineer tweeted repeatedly on how bad the Wii U was, its less powerful than the Xbox 360, a current gen system that's almost 8 years old
Pretty sure noone is in any doubt what EA thinks of Nintendo. They would never come out in a press conference and say "we dont like Nintendo" but lets be honest they have more or less have done so in the past week.
One thing is for sure they have now got an unprecedented relationship with Nintendo...
To hell with EA......that make crappy recycled sports games andhonestly have very bad business practices. They have been voted worst company in USA 2 years straight, and are out of touch with gamers in general. And now they deliberatley screw over a whole fanbase of players because of their own lack of effort. The brought 4 games to the Wii-U......all of which came out later than last gen versions. Madden was missing the new engine, Fifa was missing features, Mass Effect 3 gets no DLC, was outsourced and was sabotaged by releasing the trilogy on other consoles at the same time, and Need For Speed while being the best console version, came out so late no one cared. And then EA has the balls to say well the sales aren't there. Well the console has only 4 million owners so far, what did you expect to sell?
But they now want to focus on PS4/Xbox 720 which has 0 install base so far. Good idea morons, you give up 4 million for 0 !!!!