You know how a while ago warnings were issued about always-on DRM games? Games like Diablo III, SimCity and for a short while Miner Wars 2081, fall into the category of games that will cease to exist once the master servers shutdown for good. You get an example of how this will work with the Darkspore, which is no longer receiving support, and no longer available for digital purchase from Steam.
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?
The benefits of DRM...Wow.
EA is becoming a tragedy to the gaming community.
Simcity 5 is next, people. I expect those servers to shutdown within late 2015.
EA'd
It was pulled because people were filing complaints about server issues. The game is still available on Origin servers and EA released a statement that it will be back on Steam shortly.
I think this article is a bad attempt at saying that DRM is just plain bad. Not true when other games use DRM with no problems.
This is why always online games are never gonna be part of my future.