Kotaku: "This is on Maxis," said Lucy Bradshaw, the studio's boss, in response to a customer's allegation that publisher Electronic Arts required SimCity to always connect to the game's servers, even for the fundamentally singleplayer modes of the city-building simulation. "EA does not force design upon us," she said. "We own it, we are working 24/7 to fix it, and we are making progress."
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.
I hate when EA developers do this.
"Oh, it's not EA, we all just happen to make piss poor decisions with our games."
Maxis - Subsidiary of Electronic Arts
Even if it's the developer's choice, they still work for EA and, as such, it's still EA.
Glad to know they take the blame for their own mistake. I hope they get the fix out asap
edit @ below: Oops sorta forgot EA stands for Evil Arts ;-) silly me
And of course this is hard if not impossible to believe since we're talking about an issue of policy. That as a security and anti-piracy measure an always online requirement is of more if not total benefit to EA. You can't play it on the go - unless of course you have wi-fi.
"EA does not force design upon us"
Yeah right....Visceral Games said that and then Bioware and look at those franchises now. Hell Insomniac games said that and you can tell from Overstrikes first trailer to FUSE what happened.
Knowing EA they probably have sniper cameras dotted around the studios who work for them. Say one bad thing about EA and they'll blow your head off.
"I sure hope that after we right this ship, you will give the game a try. It is really good, worthy of the brand!" Yeah if i wanted to rent a game i would use gamefly no thanks.