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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The oldest Electronic Arts game I played was Earth Orbit Stations for the Apple IIe.
Save scumming was pretty much mandatory. EOS had a very evil RNG about how successful rocket launches would be. With budgeting and time restrictions being super tight, one launch fuckup could bring the whole house of cards down. Imagine kerbal but less of a lego set and more of a roguelike.
I'm told it is possible to accomplish the mars rescue mission without save hacking but I never pulled it off.