Beyond the woke shit they do EA has been an anti-consumer dumpster fire for as long as I've been aware of them (about 12 years now). I was (and still am) a huge Sims 3 player, and there's all kinds of unethical shit they did with that over a decade ago even if it doesn't hold a candle to the shit they do now. They also destroyed the SimCity franchise by sabotaging SimCity 2013 and then scapegoating Maxis so they would have an excuse to destroy it. I played SimCity 4 which was decent, and SimCity 2000 was released before Maxis was bought out. For those of you who are older or have been following this stuff longer than I have, was EA ever a good company or have they been scamming their customers from the beginning?
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I can tell you something funny, it used to be the LA BRANCH of EA used to be the best part.
They were responsible for Red Alert 3 and when Battlefield 4 was released in it's buggy state, they worked to fix it and even add on community maps that it became one of the best Battlefield games.
But that time has long past, I'd say one of the things that sort of unintentionally put them on this path was ME3 multiplayer. It seemed a bit of an after thought but it became REALLY popular and had a loot box system to getting characters and weapons which they've done in their sports games but this was the first time it was accepted in a non sport game.
After that, they tried injecting it into EVERY game they made and it was when the decline really accelerated...
Battlefield 4? EA was known as an anti-consumer corp before BF3 ever came out. As mentioned trash tier yearly release sports games with an assload of DLCs were a thing for years beforehand, and IIRC they even had a thing where online multiplayer only worked on BC2 if you bought the game new - there was an activation code in the box, and if you bought used you had to pay them for a new one.
True but it they still made products everyone liked which balanced it out.
I maintain after ME3, you saw a major sift in game design that became EVEN more predatory.