Everything from Hazelight (split fiction, it takes two) is amazing. The Star Wars game is good and not MTX filled, and the next one looks promising. They’ve also published a few cool indie games over the years.
They… basically killed dragon age. Yeah…
Mass Effect isn’t dead yet though, and I always thought Andromeda got more hate than it deserved, especially given the development dysfunction and the massive improvement after the post-launch patch.
But my main point is: if you buy Madden or Sims at this point, WTF do you expect? They are going to shank you, like the last dozen times. They’re predatory casinos churned out on autopilot at this point; I consider that a whole separate division of EA, like iOS/Android divisions of other studios.
And I’d argue Battlefield has fallen into this bucket too.
But then go look at something like Activision Blizzard, whose entire portfolio wreaks of enshittification without exception. Or Ubisoft and take two, who just keeps sliding down.
EA has at least tried to improve the “not predatory” part of their portfolios.
My hot take: people are too hard on EA.
Everything from Hazelight (split fiction, it takes two) is amazing. The Star Wars game is good and not MTX filled, and the next one looks promising. They’ve also published a few cool indie games over the years.
They… basically killed dragon age. Yeah…
Mass Effect isn’t dead yet though, and I always thought Andromeda got more hate than it deserved, especially given the development dysfunction and the massive improvement after the post-launch patch.
But my main point is: if you buy Madden or Sims at this point, WTF do you expect? They are going to shank you, like the last dozen times. They’re predatory casinos churned out on autopilot at this point; I consider that a whole separate division of EA, like iOS/Android divisions of other studios.
And I’d argue Battlefield has fallen into this bucket too.
But then go look at something like Activision Blizzard, whose entire portfolio wreaks of enshittification without exception. Or Ubisoft and take two, who just keeps sliding down.
EA has at least tried to improve the “not predatory” part of their portfolios.
…Though I guess we will see which part they fire.