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   Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 06:43:40 JST Seasons of Jason

   Congratulations, Mr. CEO. You are completely out of touch 😵
   To claim that an RPG can't be successful without a "shared world experience" is ludicrous.

   https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-ceo-says-dragon-age-the-veilguard-failed-to-resonate-with-a-broad-audience-gamers-increasingly-want-shared-world-features

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 06:47:57 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Trezzer (aka Helvedeshunden)

     @trezzer And this IS the same man who, more than 6 years ago, shunned the Switch and refused to bring any Madden or Sims games over to that platform because "people prefer to play those titles on other consoles."

     EA will do a complete reversal with Switch 2, I can promise you that.

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     Trezzer (aka Helvedeshunden) (trezzer@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 06:47:59 JST Trezzer (aka Helvedeshunden)

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     @killyourfm Yeah, add that and I'm out. I don't know *anyone* who would say "yeah, that's what I want!". I know plenty who will nope out, though. OOT indeed.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 06:48:55 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Raptor :gamedev:

     @raptor85 Indeed. See also: https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/113953476966107866

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     Raptor :gamedev: (raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 06:48:56 JST Raptor :gamedev:

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     @killyourfm I mean, it's EA, who multiple times has either had from a studio under them or bought out a game series that was leading the market and driving new gameplay innovations, deciding that they know better than the devs that have shown to make an amazing game 5-10 times already and giving it to some cheaper developers and making it more generic, then when that fails blaming lack of interest in that genre/game series/etc. EA's been out of touch since the 90's hit.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 08:55:35 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Le Patenteux :verif:

     @Normand_Nadon I definitely understand what you mean.

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     Le Patenteux :verif: (normand_nadon@hostux.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 08:55:37 JST Le Patenteux :verif:

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     @killyourfm
     I play games when I need a break from other humans... I am not going to meet other humans online to play the game!

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:10:01 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Chris 👾

     @chris *Sigh* Mass Effect will never be the same, man.

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     Chris 👾 (chris@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:10:02 JST Chris 👾

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     @killyourfm Out of touch, oblivious, bad news for the Mass Effect team. And for ME4 - laying off half the BioWare staff won't make it a better game.

     EA has been the scourge of the gaming industry for years and they'll always get away with it because the majority of their customers don't know about these issues and they don't care: parents, grandparents and sports fans will continue to buy the new FIFA, Madden NFL, Need for Speed and Sims game every year, no matter what.

     Interesting enough Sony seems to think differently, they have cancelled several Live-Service games recently 🤔

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:18:00 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • akane

     @akane O_O I didn't even think about that.
     Oof, that would be very, very undesirable.

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     akane (akane@vocalounge.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:18:01 JST akane

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     @killyourfm noooo not a Skate live service