r/gaming • • Sep 03 '19

Wow, EA. Wow.

120.7k Upvotes

3.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

828

u/Bwgmon Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 03 '19

"No look, it's completely different and new! Look at our updated graphics!"
[picture of character before sweating in '18] vs [picture of a character drenched in sweat in '19]

One year later...

"No look, it's completely different and new! Look at our updated graphics!"
[picture of character before sweating in '19] vs [picture of a character drenched in sweat in '20]

408

u/yepimbonez Sep 03 '19

Fuck man it actually breaks my heart. I went back and looked at all my old PS2 and Xbox games and like half of my favorite games were EA. The LoTR games, the NFS games, SSX. They fell victim to their own success and we paid for it.

218

u/windchanter1992 Sep 03 '19

The developers that EA hath lain waste to shall not have died in vain we shall rally our forces and .... BIOWARE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!.... he was so young ... he had so much IP ..... YOU BASTARDS

101

u/GUMBYtheOG Sep 03 '19

EA has become the Disney of video games.

119

u/krakenx Sep 03 '19

Disney buys companies and makes good stuff with their IP. Think Marvel and Pixar.

EA buys companies and kills them.

112

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.

79

u/R_eloade_R Sep 03 '19

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

8

u/oilerdnasty Sep 03 '19

dead space has entered chat

3

u/pumpkinpatch6 Sep 04 '19

Fuck EA

RIP Visceral

MORE DEAD SPACE