On Monday EA struck a multi-year deal with Disney to develop core Star Wars games with DICE, BioWare and Visceral Games all announced to be behind the titles being developed. Now I love Star Wars, I wouldn’t say I’m a uber fanboy but I love the films and games a lot and this news has seriously got me excited as I believe Disney made the right choice with when choosing EA as their brother in arms.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.
i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?
Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game
The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools
In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.
everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.
Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot
Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)
Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending
CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products
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.
All that is already been happening
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EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.
Very likely, yes.
Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.
My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.
At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?
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.
Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.
Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms
The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.
We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.
Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
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Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.
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!"
yay
Would have rather them have gone with a better publisher like Activision...
The article makes me think the author doesn't know much about EA and its studios. First don't put quality with madden and FIFA, if they were really good they wouldn't need to buy the license for these two sports.
Bioware with EA already had a chance with the Star Wars License and it was bad and disappointing. I know it's not only the publisher's fault and I agree...which should let you know how downhill Bioware has gone from looking at the first KOTOR without EA.
Edit: Grammatical error, stupid keyboard.
I just want to see some games grounded within the universe of the original 3 films again.
I'd like to head into the trenches of the Death Star with next generation video game tech. omnomnom
This article is just re-stating the obvious, for the most part, and reads like a gushing fanboy's forum post.
My problems with the EA handling are the obvious ones, too. Bioware haven't made a nuanced or great game since Mass Effect, which was prior to their EA buy-out. Dragon Age is a very good game, but it was just them returning to their D&D style with more Mass Effect style conversations. Everything since then has been problematic.
DICE handling Battlefront 3? Are you sure you want Battlefront 3 to just be Battlefield 3 in space? It'd be best to give it back to Free Radical (now Crytek UK), let them finish what they started. I'd like to see how C&C Generals 2 turns out, then see if DICE could handle a Star Wars RTS.
Who the hell would want to play the Sims Star Wars? Sims fans are more like teenage girls and bored housewives, neither of whom would have a particularly vested interest in the Star Wars universe, and I don't think anyone would care too much about how the boring, ordinary people of that universe live their lives (why watch a peasant live his life when you could be controlling an X-Wing or Jedi character?)
The only noteworthy Visceral title is Dead Space, and they've gone ahead and ruined that too with DS3. Star Wars has no real horror elements, so a horror game would be a bad move, and Army of Two Devil's Cartel (as well as Dead Space 3) prove they are only capable of humdrum action games, so I wouldn't get too excited about whatever they're working on.
And seriously, Criterion Pod Racer? Pod racing is one of the dumber things to come out of Star Wars, which is no small feat considering the very movie that spawned it. That's a big fat no from a lot of people (namely: Star Wars fans).
What would be good games, then? Aside from the aforementioned RTS, how about a Sim Empire game in Star Wars by Maxis? Crytek could do a good job of making a Mandalorian Bounty Hunter game, using Crysis' style as a template to expand on (and their flair for visuals would be a massive boon for realizing Star Wars locales). And I'd like to see someone take on space combat (I think Criterion would do VERY well here), but it won't happen. But really, a lot of talent has left EA recently, and many of the studios that saw them though this generation have been losing their luster and penchant for greatness for the last few years. I'm not expecting anything more than Star Wars shovel ware and mediocre action games, with lots of micro transactions and paid DLC, because it's EA we're talking about here.
The sad thing is that we're never going to see much greatness or innovation in Star Wars games because smaller studios will NEVER get a shot. Indies and small studios can't afford that license, and Disney don't care who gets it as long as they get paid for giving to them (i.e. no great risk for them, only the people developing it). Only the likes of EA can afford things like that.