It’s going to be such a hack job with this takeover.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    That’s a bit extreme. Everything from Hazelight (It Takes Two, Split Fiction) is sublime, they still have Respawn making Star Wars games. They have Sims. And (outside sports games) they’ve dialed down the “MTX meme” they were a decade ago.

    …I’m not saying they’re good. But they’re nowhere near Activision-Blizzard enshittified, nor hurling towards it as fast as Xbox Studios and some other AAAs.

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      9 hours ago

      Blizzard went to shit so completely that they made EA look good in comparison. Ubisoft too. Crazy. Maybe this is EA’s way of reclaiming the top spot?

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah, exactly. Xbox too. They make EA look good.

        IMO Ubisoft seems to have bottomed out, almost like EA has.

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      12 hours ago

      they still have Respawn making Star Wars games.

      I mean, that’s an exclusivity thing again…

      From 2013 to 2023 only EA could work on Star Wars games. It was supposed to be a bunch of high quality epic games…

      We got a couple that were decent because there’s no alternatives. And most of the time was wasted on battlefront and it’s terrible micro transactions.

      Like…

      "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

      Literally came from the beginning of that exclusivity deal…