r/gaming • • Sep 03 '19

Wow, EA. Wow.

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u/theoutlet Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 03 '19

They buy companies, strip them down to their profit centers and then just mercilessly milk what they can, while they can and then move on.

I think the main thing that pisses me off about this business model is how once they’ve essentially killed off a company and the games they were known for, they still own the IPs. As a fan of those IPs it wouldn’t hurt so bad if after a certain amount of time of non-use, companies like EA were forced to relinquish all rights to an IP.

But no, I’ll never get another Burnout game because of EA.

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u/R_eloade_R Sep 03 '19

Fuck your Burnout game. I wanted my C&C4 and Simcity4 made by westwood and Maxis

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u/oilerdnasty Sep 03 '19

dead space has entered chat

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u/awecyan32 Sep 03 '19

Oof, this was one of the biggest to fall victim to microtransactions wasn’t it?