Wait, gimme a minute. I'll try to see if I can shed one.
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky
They're completely missing a big piece of the puzzle though: you need good games to get core gamers to buy and support them, and you need core gamers to spread the word so casual gamers can latch on (i.e,. Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, Batman, etc.,) and until EA figures out where they're going wrong and how they're doing the gaming base a disservice with a lot of anti-consumerist measures, it's unlikely to see them grow out of the slump.
Au contraire, mon capitan! I really hope they do keep on doing what they're doing, and keep doing gaming a disservice. Maybe, just maybe, if we're all lucky, EA goes the way of the Dodo. Then we'd have only 1 of the old Total Douchebag Game Companies left (Activision).
There will be many new Douchebag Game Companies though.
Nexon, Zynga, gPotato, BigPoint....
If some of the big ones fail the others will have to learn from that. And not make the same mistakes... Typically they think short term profit is more important than making games people will want to play long term. I think companies that are going to far following that philosophy will fail. And the others will at least try to prove they are different. And will want people to think they love games and want to make fun games...
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Wait, gimme a minute. I'll try to see if I can shed one.
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky
If some of the big ones fail the others will have to learn from that. And not make the same mistakes... Typically they think short term profit is more important than making games people will want to play long term. I think companies that are going to far following that philosophy will fail. And the others will at least try to prove they are different. And will want people to think they love games and want to make fun games...