Ubisoft’s ecosystem has always been especially terrible- I don’t know anyone that enjoys using it.
EA is a terrible company for gaming. Among their many shady and abhorrent practices, they re release the same game every year with minor to no changes: FIFA (now called something else).
The userbase that plays these games do not care. They are a sustained revenue source. A majority of them do not overlap with gaming and tech communities online. They simply play the games and move on. It's a large silent community that we don't often interact with.
Ubisoft has a similar userbase in its assassin's creed, far cry etc series. To them this won't be any cause for concern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_(video_game_series)
Please stop spreading disinformation. Aside from the usual graphical changes and annual roster updates you can see a list of major changes under each release.
>The userbase that plays these games do not care.
So what exactly is the problem if they're clearly meeting the expectations of their userbase?
Food for thought.
That's just the Switch version (called Legacy)
What's with the need to use such an insulting tone, simply because you don't like a certain type of games?
I buy F1 every single year, and I'm an avid gamer and part of the tech community. The game doesn't require massive changes every year, there's simply no need for it. Improved graphics, and an up to date grid, cars, circuits and regulations is what I want from such a game.
That's the thing happening with these companies, changing things to be more consumer-unfriendly while riding on nostalgia or branding. Pointing it out doesn't make it an insult to those still enjoying the game.
It does feel like an insult. And it also feels like an insult to say those players are ignorant. I'm fully aware of what I'm buying every year, but it meets my expectations of such game.
> A majority of them do not overlap with gaming and tech communities online. [...] It's a large silent community that we don't often interact with.
Considering you, woutr_be, are indeed overlapping with this online tech community, aren't silent at all, and we're interacting with you right now,
why are you taking offense with a category of people you aren't part of?
Madden for PS5 is $70.00, or just under $6/mo. If you spend half as much time playing Madden as you do watching Netflix or Youtube, then it's not out of line with the average cost of entertainment.
There are good points to be made about whether EA are meeting their full potential on quality of updates though.
See Unity (run by an ex EA CEO who spends a fortune on reputation management services wiping a certain lawsuit of the internet to the point obscure NY italian restaurants show up above his name in Google) wasting the opportunity to become the engine company in games and deliver solid value on ridiculous ads plays trying to become an ad tech company.
These are companies that could have solid business models and solid value. But greed.
EA is actually a parasite. It’s the Vampire Armand from Interview with the Vampire. It takes no risks, it doesn’t innovate because it doesn’t know how and want to - instead it buys already proven ideas, scales them with fat cheques and rides them until they are out of favor, while squeezing the people who build them year after year for 10% layoffs.
And thus it keeps itself alive, decade after decade and the people who run it a fat paycheck, the road littered with the husks of sucked dry studios and broken dreams.
One of many fun aspects: Many projects run on contingent workers who can only work for months out of a year (otherwise law would make them permanent), paid starbucks wages but without starbucks benefits. These workers are tunnels to EA with deals straight out of overpriced schools which approach young people with “100% placement rate” and “job guaranteed” in the hip game industry - tie them with insane student loans and then funnel them into EA.
EA then dangles them the idea that the best performers will be made permanent - appealing to youthful optimism bias - and many of them run 2-3 years with intermittent unemployment before realizing that almost nobody gets made permanent.
By then they are so deep in debt and unable to pay their loans, lack appreciable skills and stuck in a low end job that just hoping keeps them going or drives them to work at Starbucks for better benefits.
It’s pure evil.
What I don't agree with here is that the users don't care. No one is capable of having such passionate opinions on a glorified spreadsheet than a Football Manager fan. Likewise CoD players - they dared to try something new with whichever one was largely based in space (I thought it was one of the best), and got eviscerated by their player base, who really just want to play Modern Warfare 2 again.