RipTen writes: "The author managed to keep playing his city for 20 minutes after disconnecting from the internet ... what none of these stories mentioned, though, was that this idea had been confirmed by a Maxis dev..."
EA just hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and its executives have been asked to comment about the recent price hikes for games.
Today, Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2025, alongside the full year.
Split Fiction has sold nearly 4 million copies, and the next battlefield is confirmed for a release by March 2026 with a reveal this Summer.
In addition to the roughly 100 job cuts IGN reported earlier today at Respawn Entertainment, EA has made wider cuts across its organization today, impacting around 300 individuals total including those already reported at Respawn.
Absolutely insane. Man I'm hope they land on their feet EA needs to get the shit together badly....
This is why this industry has slow releases and none compelling games.
Why would anyone willingly work in the VG industry or specifically for one of these globocorp organizations that put you in constant fear of losing your livelihood based on terrible choices made by idiotic management, not the people with talent making the actual games?
Really well researched, analyzed and written.
"Maxis’ Lucy Bradshaw explained that, due to the amount of calculations done by the servers for each individual city, creating an offline mode would require a huge amount of engineering from the development team."
Then get to work then....
What would you of rather had
Work your arses off before the game comes out to make the game offline
OR
Work your arses off after the game comes out while being hated, while loosing fans and their trust so you can try to fix the online issues.
I know what choice I would of made
They confirmed this, but they also said that the game contained server-side calculations which needed to be performed so intensively that your computer cannot perform them without the internet.
So I mean, yeah. I agree, sorta, but at the same time the lie is in the form of talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Worked out well then.
I really think that Maxis is truthful on this matter. What is that smell? ...anyways. Why else would they make the game require an always on connection. *checks bottom of shoe* Seriously, phew. Like I was saying. You might have an setup right now that eats through Crysis, but obviously there so much more computational power required for a city simulation...OKAY! Fuck, who's messing around here!? I'm trying to comment, and all I smell is bullshit!
I'm out.