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Socar

RancidVomit86 wrote:

@Artwark If Maxis was not turning a profit for some time it is in fact a smart business move. The top dogs at EA, just like any company, must do what is best for the bottom line. While it may be sad that this is how corporations operate, it is just the way it is.

Your comments on Nintendo tell me that you are like many other people and are just emotionally invested in these companies. If you were a shareholder than you would have a change of heart as you would be financially invested (I don't know your age anyway. If you are an adult you will understand what I am saying).

I don't like seeing people lose their jobs or something from my childhood being gone but I understand the reasons why these events happen.

Are you honestly saying that EA is really smart? Because their stupidity is what makes them simply annoying even for business standards. The fact that EA itself was responsible for the things it demanded Maxis to do and yet Maxis went down because of them isn't a smart thing at all. There's a big difference between an experimental failure and a foolish demand.

Nintendo's experiment of the Virtual Boy did not end up anyone losing their jobs because Yokoi himself decided to retire even before the Virtual Boy's existence and that they wanted to release the N64 as soon as possible. While scrapping the Virtual Boy could have been a smart move, making some profit and gaining criticism is important for any business so the virtual boy had to be released. This experimentation went on till the gamecube and Nintendo realized that the best way to get profit is to make cheap technology with quality games in mind and as of now, it still works.

EA barely listens to the criticism nor does it realize its mistake from the past and they keep doing the same thing over again. Buying a company and shutting it down for no reason a principle so ridiculous that it needs to have a law so that no one unnecessarily looses jobs.

There's nothing wrong being emotional to a company at all and I don't see what the issue is here. Sure, I can't support Nintendo all the time and I'll admit that Nintendo has done some mistakes even now and then, but the fact is, they have never gone as far as shutting down studios or doing anything foolish for just getting more money. If anything, they are extremely careful when they do something so that would be the reason why they are way behind everyone else. To see Nintendo gone would be the black and white image of the game industry and if that is something you'd want us to expect it to happen because of facing reality and move on, then ok. But don't expect every one of us to move on because of what the future holds. A lot of gamer's are still sad about Rare a company once golden and now its quality is nowhere as good as it was back then.

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CaviarMeths

Artwark wrote:

Are you honestly saying that EA is really smart?

Of course they are. You're too emotional.

So Anakin kneels before Monster Mash and pledges his loyalty to the graveyard smash.

RancidVomit86

@Artwark EA's financials speak for themselves. They turn a good profit. Yes, they make smart business decisions for their bottom line.

I don't expect my opinion to be the popular one but it is the one of reason.

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Socar

@RancidVomit86 @CaviarMeths ghee....thanks for the answer. I guess buying companies and shutting them down really do make smart decisions after all..... Too bad that the whole gaming community has a grudge against EA because of this.

I guess you'd also say that patent trolling is a smart move so that he/she gets money without doing anything huh? How about just showing gameplay footage to make some money out of it only to realize that half of it belongs to the owner of the game? Smart moves eh?

Whether its a smart move or not, no one should lose their jobs because of their fault. If you ask me, making a project with risk in mind and making sure that the staff don't lose their job and their company is getting profit is a smart move.

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RancidVomit86

@Artwark As far as DRM goes, you have to understand devs and publishers want it cause it cripples the used market. EA was one of the few big enough to take the step towards doing that. It is an unfortunate thing and it's bad for the consumer buthe again corporations want to do what is best for profits. I'm not saying DRM is right, it's actually a very messed up thing that only gets thrown on us gamers, but I can understand their thought on it.

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Something I did get a laugh at.

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unrandomsam

TingLz wrote:

CaviarMeths wrote:

TingLz wrote:

Read the news again. They are closing one studio to consolidate it with their own. Maxis will still technically be operational.

Dissolving a studio to swallow all of the staff and assets is not the same as remaining operational. Maxis is still being shut down, and losing their identity and whatever autonomy they may have had. The former staff will now just be another link in the chain of the big, faceless publisher.

Autonomy? They had no autonomy before the closing.

It always looked as if they did (Compared to say Origin / Bullfrog / Westwood etc that this happened to immediately or effectively immediately).

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