Comment on EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 10 months ago
On the one hand I hate hearing about people losing their jobs. I dislike people not being able to have an opportunity to support themselves. On the other hand any and all trouble for EA makes me happy. I long for the day they have to sell off their studios and their CEO has to try and not be remembered as the guy that killed the golden goose for investor capitol.
It’s time that investors stop looking at video games as a get rich quick opportunity. And trying to turn it into the new cubicle farm. Sandfall and a lot of other smaller devs are proving that a small team of generalists are able to do better work than these huge and bloated monstrosities that EA and its kind have become.
Also they pretty much show with this and several other cancellations that they cannot fathom a business model that doesn’t rely on predator monetization.
I’d really rather gamers focused their energy into showing support for the developer groups making cool projects, than specifically deriding any works made under publishers they dislike.
Once every few years, EA and Ubisoft produce something that’s really cool; and much as we’d rather the publishers were replaced with better ones, at the least we can be happy that developers got to put out one or two good games through them.
I’d really rather gamers focused their energy into showing support for the developer groups making cool projects, than specifically deriding any works made under publishers they dislike.
The thing about EA is they have a long history of acquiring the developer groups you’re talking about, then mismanaging them into the ground before dissolving them entirely. I know just as many if not more only exist because of EA and their funding, but it’s hard not to feel bitter when many of my favorite studios no longer exist due to their incompetence and greed.
Damn I was looking forward to this, Marc Bernardino was a writer for it, in fact I believe the lead writer. Love his stuff, found him by following Kevin Smith
Yeah and the trailer they put out, if this is the same game, looked like a mostly complete game. And it looked good!
DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You underestimate just how much they treat this like a business and take advantage of passionate people. Nobody does game dev for a career without a passion.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 10 months ago
Devs, yes. Publishers, not so much.
DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Nobody talks about the corporate shills called publishers.