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its very telling that critics in more left leaning spaces are obviously bummed out about corporations destroying the teams that worked on games they were often heavily critical of whereas grifters are reacting to bioware, 343 etc as personal victories in the war against blue hair and pronouns

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Thing is that won't happen. They don't make big improvements to Madden because they know they don't have to. It's going to print money every year either way. We're basically already in a space where the majority of big studio games are iterative and the majority of innovation is from Indies.

The fire was coming from inside the house. Bioware, just like every studio that sells out died the moment their leadership team took a gigantic payout and sold to ea in the first place. People are blaming the tiger for eventually mauling them, maybe don't acquire a tiger in the first place?

It's even wilder that none of the grifters play the games they pretended to love years ago, or the new games they pretend to hate. I know that's why they're literally grifters, but I'm fine with someone being a complete hater if they at least tried to engage with the stuff they hate.

Capital G "Gamers" as a bloc are still like 90% in the pocket for Trump after he tripled the price of consumer electronics and still 100% in on AI despite it clearly having nothing but a massively negative effect on the hobby because these people do not actually play video games

man as someone who's been a warcraft fan since 2006 (started with the RTS games!), it's really fuckin annoying when people taut and blame WoW's crappy output as of late on dei/woke/women/cozy/whatever and not. y'know. maybe the shit going on at actiblizzsoft.

literally though someone else brought it up but it's interesting whenever criticisms get brought up with modern wow stories, everyone guns for dem blue haired wimmins and not. terran gregory or chris metzen. not every story decision they put out was good either. i remember cairne's pointless death

I mean, they’ll get what they pay for, and if I know anything about these kinds of weirdos, they’ll have buyers remorse setting in practically on contact

On God I've had a hate against EA for over a decade now for what they did to Westwood and it's mind boggling that anyone would cheer EA for essentially being shitty hacks that don't value talent or hard work. EA MANUFACTURED THE FUCKING ISSUES BY CRUNCHING THEIR WORKFORCE!

“But the Mass Effect 3 ending sucked!” “Yes, because management said to throw out the ending they had because it got guessed, on the basis that EA management are insane, instead of rewarding astute players for sticking with the story enough to guess the ending.”

Probably so, endings are hard, but I have to think the thing they were building to might’ve been slightly better and he’s just hard on himself. I don’t have a dog in the race either way, being as I quit halfway through when I realized I needed Multiplayer progress to get the ending I wanted

Is this why so much media these days have such bad/weird endings that don't at all follow the logic of the setting? Because people guess twists and endings based on actually following the story and understanding character motivations? And corporate thinks that's... bad?