Stevo writes: "In case you've hidden away from the Internet in the last week EA has been voted, again, "Worst Company in America" by The Consumerist readers, beating out Bank of America with 78% of the votes. Sure, EA have made mistakes (SimCity anyone?) but there are definitely companies in the United States that have more than ruin the launch of a game."
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.
Quality of games definitely no!
Money grubbing very much so but they are a big company and need to make. Profit but they need to find a better way cause it will hurt them as well as consumers soon.
Rare are quite bad atm and it pains me to say it but its all microsofts fault.
Naughty dog are the worst for making me part with my money for their fantastic games. ;)
I completely agree with this article. EA may suck at being a video game publisher but, at the end of the day thats all they are "a video game publisher". Sure their DRM policy sucks, yeah they nickle and dime you for everything, and the sim city launch was a debacle but, can we honestly say that companies like activision (vita black ops by nihilistic), and capcom ( i know their not american but no one else charges $5 for alternate clothing dlc or scales games back just to sell you the complete version as on disc dlc). Last time I checked bank of america tricked people into losing their homes and AIG the company that WE bailed out from potential bankruptcy is now considering suing the government because they didnt like the stipulations of the loan ( a loan that they took anyway because they would have collapsed if they didnt).
Wow they beat out Bank of America, that is not easily done.
Does video games have a razzy award or something similar?
Not sure if they do or not & what it may be called..
But yeah, that's what EA deserves, worldwide.
78% of the people that voted in that poll are absolute fucking idiots.
Those kids should get out of the basement and go live in the real world for a while. They'll quickly learn that EA isn't even on the radar when it comes to immoral business practices and anti-consumer behaviour.