The Titan

I was looking forward to Need for Speed 2015 a few years ago until I realized that it was essentially single player that requires online. That is a good example of a game that is basically live service.

You say you don't buy a EA game, but I find that even when they simply publish the game they themselves generate a lot of controversy. I think back to Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3. Were those all coincidences? All three games were massive hyped but when released to the public they generated a huge wave of controversy, largely in due part to how stuff had drastically changed.

There is an article floating on the internet on how an ex-Viscereal developer who worked on Dead Space 2 mentioned that it didn't sell enough copies. So that may of been a motive for EA or whomever was in charge of things to drastically change the setup of the game, and it was obvious by the time Dead Space 3 arrived in times. I don't think that was some coincidence, because I look at The Sims 3 and other such games and I see that EA fucked up a lot.

EA has been around for decades, but they aren't the once noble, honest company they once were.

You can continue to buy such games even when stuff like Star Wars Battlefront 2, Fallout 76, Battlefield V and Metal Gear Survive generate a shit load of controversy. People are tired of Madden, but since so many of them keep buying that crap EA continues to make it. And they have a monopoly on the NFL license for video games, nobody else can step in and make a NFL game. And then the people who continue to buy them wonder why the games still suck.

There's no point arguing any further with this with you. You blame DICE just like how people blamed Bioware for Mass Effect 3 and Viscereal Games for Dead Space 3. I don't think it's simply the developers fault and only their fault. Publishers have a massive influence on how AAA games are made in this day and age.

@Nighcisama 

Well if it makes you feel any bit better. I'm not gping to try to platinum another DICE game again. I already platinum Battlefield 1 and learned that getting a plat from a DICE game is torture. I hope you're happy that I suffered from a really boring single player.

@Spaz well yes, gamers fault as well. Today's gamers are so casual that it's damage on the gaming industry is so fucking strong it causes companies like EA to strive. They are losing cash. But they are never going to die. Not when people keep buying shitty madden. Battlefield 5 and Anthem flopped. Maybe they will have to let go more people. But that new star wars game by respawn is going to get a lot of people buying it. EA is will die when gamers will stop having causals who buy garbage from them. And I don't see it happening.

EA has let people go for over a decade. There's entire studios that have been stripped down and those developers who worked for them had to find other jobs.

I think the problem is people can't remember past a couple years. They forget what happened back when Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3 came out so they assume that these modern era games like Anthem and Battlefield V are going to do well. Battlefield 1 wasn't too terrible, we should expect the same with Battlefield V, right?

Amy Hennig probably would of made an Uncharted esque Star Wars that was single player with some multiplayer thrown in. Who knows, but that's my hunch given her history with Naughty Dog. Sadly it will never come to be.

EA can brainwash the stupid casuals out there who continue to buy Madden games for $60 and other such titles. Madden NFL 19 from what I seen is awful and had a lot of problems on launch, with physics regarding passing the football not being quite up to tune. Then they have the temerity to charge 60 bucks for it. Ridiculous.

They should change the price from $60 down to $40, and that goes for Sony's exclusive MLB the Show since both that and Madden mostly attract casuals.