More interesting than the random EA clickbait is his actual point:
“The problem with the whole capitalist idea is that you need to make more and more and more and more money,” he says. “That doesn’t make sense, because at the end of the day, you will make stupid decisions. But I just hope, in the best of worlds, that you take less of these stupid decisions and focus on what you truly, truly want. And those are the games.”
5 years in the future: “Split Fiction 2’s Josef Fares says he ‘understands why people like to hate EA’ after development nightmare”
I mean, they made three games together over the past seven years. How long do you think he needs to state this to catch up with your zero days expertise?
This man woke up and chose violence.
I love HazeLights games, and they’re basically the only EA games I buy. I’m glad they have a good relationship but I don’t know how long it can last. EA is like Dracula, the dinner spread may be nice, but after dinner you have to look out.
Man, you’re missing out. EA Originals published a bunch of stuff worth playing that people mostly ignored. If you like HazeLight stuff, Unraveled 2 was a cute 2D platformer take on coop puzzling. Zau is a decent metroidvania, although not the best of last year. Lost in Random was so underrated.
And the main internal studios make cool stuff, too. Squadrons is great if you like Tie Fighter, the Dead Space remake is up there with Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 2, the Jedi games are decent soulslikes… They aren’t particularly adventurous outside their sports and shooter franchises, but I feel in general they also don’t ship too much outright bad stuff, looking at it with some neutrality.
Guess they weren’t around for EA self destructive decisions over the last decade.
They must have been enveloped in their pride and accomplishments that they didn’t see what was happening.
That’s crazy that people think ea is the worst company ever when nestle exists.
It truly speaks to their level of entitlement gamers have. What’s worse, a company that literally kills babies or one that closes down a studio?
You create a strawman: “people think ea is the worst company ever”. It’s phrased like hyperbole, but apparently you mean it quite literally, because then you attack the moral character of these “people” (now defined as all gamers, apparently) for failing to recognize that ea isn’t literally the very worst company that exists. Like, fuck off.
I mean, they made a poll. Every company was there. They chose EA as literally the worst. Multiple times.
Forget the specifics, I’m stating that the gaming community as a whole LOVES a dogpile. It loves having a nemesis they can dunk on based on one or two tropes they picked up along the way.
It’s not just EA, it cycles. Ubi is in the hotseat at the moment (for reasons I suspect most can’t even properly articulate, incidentally). Epic is up there, too, particularly around these parts, where the Valve worship runs strong. But it’s definitely a pattern, it’s definitely not particularly rational or mature, and it’s definitely disproportionate.
When your target demographic hates you is a lot different than the slaves that source your palm oil hating you.
