"Towards the end of last year, EA made a small, seemingly insignificant, change to its executive team.
It made the firm’s group general managers -- the execs in charge of groups of EA’s various studios – report directly to CEO Andrew Wilson. And it was a move made for one purpose: to bring the company’s leader a step closer to those who are actually making the games".
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
Read a comment earlier calling it a "special monetization operation." I had to chuckle at that.
Instead of all that how about a report when NFS is released.
Considering how many good studios have been turned to shit or shut down, EA needs to fucking stop.
Game design dictated by suits rather than actual designers was always going to falter after enough people caught on.
It's not even "design by committee", it's just spreadsheets and powerpoints of bankable game "features" that make them more money.
Listen, EA hasn't always been this way. They are a scummy bunch, but they took way more risks back in the 6th gen (xbox, gamecube, ps2) that was honestly awesome to see.
Here's to hoping that they get back to where they need to without needing to behead a few studios in the process.