Electronic Arts (EA) insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if its sale to a consortium of …
  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    Isn’t that the same thing the studios they acquired said? And we all know how that inevitably turned out.

    • Tony Bark@pawb.socialEnglish
      9 months

      EA: Maxis will continue to have creative freedom.

      Also, EA: We’ve put all of Maxis’ resources into The Sims 4.

    • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      Origin Systems, they made Ultima Underworld and Wing Commander. EA turned Origin into a download client. I’m still salty.

      • gex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        A fitting fate for EA would be to be dismantled and its name used for an unrelated business

  • Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9 months

    I’m sure the guy who dismembered a journalist will be super chill about creative control.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    9 months

    Lol…

    I don’t think this is as reassuring as EA thinks it would be…

    It’s like if Comcast got bought by United Healthcare, but assured us their customer service would stay at the same level.

    • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      Creative control until the Bobs come in and fire everyone not wanting to toe the authoritarian line.

  • itkovian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    That’s not exactly a good thing, considering that EA has been creatively bankrupt for more than a decade now.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    Ummmmm, nobody gives a shit if EA keeps creative freedom. Nobody likes EA. EA aquires creative studios, takes their IPs, steps on the throats of creative giants who made name value for something, and then laughs as they add borderline mandatory paid DLC, and laughs as they destroy properties.

    If this new owner does literally nothing besides buy smaller studios, and leave them alone to do what they want, it’s an improvement.

    • thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9 months

      Considering the new owners are famed journalist murderer and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman and Presidential nepo-in-law Jared Kushner, I’m doubtful that respect for the creative process is high on the list of priorities. And yeah, EA already sucks but I imagine they’ll find lots of innovative ways to drive EA to new heights of terribleness.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        Oh god…I had no idea THATS who was buying them!

        Welp. On this day, we lost EA as we once knew it. And nothing of value was lost.

  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9 months

    I don’t know a huge amount about IT but I absolutely don’t trust the setup of Kushner (Trump’s SIL) running kernel level anti-cheat on my computer.

  • Jumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    Luckily EA games are easily avoided because you need their garbage launcher for everything.

  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyzEnglish
    9 months

    Let’s say that I believed them. Is that even a good thing? They fucking suck and Andrew Wilson can go all the way to hell.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    9 months

    I will maintain creative control of my life by boycotting EA forever. It’s one of the key plot points in my story.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    9 months

    “sale to consortium” just sounds like Star Wars “Empire” type shit.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    Creative freedom over how they fire people and sell IPs to pay off the mountain of debt they loaded the company with.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    I’ll be honest, maybe it would be better if they didn’t have creative control anymore. They haven’t really been all that creative these past years.