Gamespot: EA is hoping you think the Medal of Honor and Battlefield series are drastically different so you’ll buy them both.
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.
... or just MILKING fatigue.
You buy a new game, mostly for the MP, and within months you need to buy new maps to stay up to date online if you're part of a group of friends or community.
This quickly means groups will fall apart, and those left behind might leave the MP altogether out of frustration.
Then, 1 year or 2 years later, there's already a new game in the series, and it all starts over again.
I don't think people are tired of the gameplay, It's always fun to run around and shoot people (in games). It's a nice digital game of 'tag', sometimes combined with a little 'hide and seek'. It's fun.
It's how the developers/publishers are trying to milk their games, that's turning people off.
TBH, because of the current trend in this genre, I feel other developers/publishers are missing a huge opportunity to secure a huge market, if they can come up with a great online shooter for PSN/XBLA that's affordable (thus many people will buy it) and if they could refrain from extreme greed. Just offer a new map for 1 dollar or 100msp or whatever. That way almost all the player will update and keep playing the game, you will sell and keep selling many more copies, and it can last 2-3 years or even longer!
I was hoping EA would do that with Battlefield 1943, but sadly there's been absolutely no support for that great game whatsoever.
Oh , I was thinking if people got free maps for shooters they would buy more shooters. I see what you mean.
Hit grabbing story photo much?
On topic: I'm fatigued with everyone talking about shooter fatigue.
The last MoH game had a good single player mode and although every single player FPS is scripted,I still enjoy playing them. The mutli-player on MoH sucked! For my money you can't beat the VS mode of a battlefield game no matter what edition it is.
As far as "fatigue" goes it seems more like burnout with a new CoD title every year that plays just like the last one did. Don't get me wrong.I like the CoD's single player,but NOT the VS modes.
As someone said above,the words "Milking IT" come to mind when talk of a BF4 coming soon. I would rather have some more DLC for BF3 past march of 2013 and Save BF4 for a launch title for the PS4/XB720.