Meteors are headed straight for Electronic Arts, Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft, but due to the ongoing materials and logistics crisis, NASA can only send one rocket up. Naturally, you were selected to head the mission, so it's your call. Who do you save, space cowboy?
You can use whatever logic you want, consider anything you choose to consider. For me I'm just going to play it simple and look at the games. Right away I can get rid of Activision/Blizzard because the only games of theirs that I ever played were a couple of CoD games long ago. Moving on, with Bioware being crap these days, my first thought was to get rid of EA. But then I considered the direction each company is probably headed. Every step Ubisoft is making these days is a disaster. They are even making the next Assassin's Creed a live service game. And, of course, they are all in on NFT's. But on top of those things, they just make a lot of bad to average games packed full of filler. The Division 2 was a slog, and I don't even know what they were thinking when they made Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
As far as EA goes, I can get a little use out of Madden and Fifa on occasion and Titanfall 2 was my favorite shooter campaign ever (but now they are just going to work on Apex Legends forever probably). Battlefield 2's campaign was great as well (so they didn't bother to include a campaign at all in the last one). But the real question is Bioware. With a thriving and successful Bioware, that changes everything for me. If you told me that Bioware was back to form and new Mass Effect and Dragon Age games were on the way, then I wouldn't hesitate to save EA.
So for me, it's a risk/reward deal. I could make the safe choice and enjoy some mostly average Far Cry and Assassin's Creed games, or I could take a chance on Bioware coming back from the dead. That seems a bit unlikely, but you never know. Perhaps EA's management finally learned the lesson Microsoft learned on managing your various studios, that you just let them do what they do best instead of trying to get them to conform to what you were doing before.
In the end, I'm going to take the chance. I want great games, not okay ones. I'll save EA.
You can use whatever logic you want, consider anything you choose to consider. For me I'm just going to play it simple and look at the games. Right away I can get rid of Activision/Blizzard because the only games of theirs that I ever played were a couple of CoD games long ago. Moving on, with Bioware being crap these days, my first thought was to get rid of EA. But then I considered the direction each company is probably headed. Every step Ubisoft is making these days is a disaster. They are even making the next Assassin's Creed a live service game. And, of course, they are all in on NFT's. But on top of those things, they just make a lot of bad to average games packed full of filler. The Division 2 was a slog, and I don't even know what they were thinking when they made Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
As far as EA goes, I can get a little use out of Madden and Fifa on occasion and Titanfall 2 was my favorite shooter campaign ever (but now they are just going to work on Apex Legends forever probably). Battlefield 2's campaign was great as well (so they didn't bother to include a campaign at all in the last one). But the real question is Bioware. With a thriving and successful Bioware, that changes everything for me. If you told me that Bioware was back to form and new Mass Effect and Dragon Age games were on the way, then I wouldn't hesitate to save EA.
So for me, it's a risk/reward deal. I could make the safe choice and enjoy some mostly average Far Cry and Assassin's Creed games, or I could take a chance on Bioware coming back from the dead. That seems a bit unlikely, but you never know. Perhaps EA's management finally learned the lesson Microsoft learned on managing your various studios, that you just let them do what they do best instead of trying to get them to conform to what you were doing before.
In the end, I'm going to take the chance. I want great games, not okay ones. I'll save EA.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram