You didn’t love the company. You loved the creative teams that poured their hearts and souls into every line of code and pixel drawn and story written.

I wouldn’t say I want more content. There’s way too much content out there. I want higher quality content. I have less free time than the games I’m interested in require. So, I’d appreciate having those limited hours be spent as well as possible.

EA used to be amazing. My first two games were Archon and Seven Cities of Gold in the Amiga 1000.

They were great games. EA didn’t start to really suck until the era of the Internet.

To be fair, gamers love to spend their money on microtransactions. Just look at how much money is being made from that.

? EA has been shit since probably before 1995…

God this game sucks, I can’t even pay $60 for a cosmetic.

The fallacy here is the idea that they care in any way about what gamers WANT.

They care about what gamers are willing to PAY for.

It’s never been about what we want, not with EA, and not with any company ever. It’s always been about what raises the most amount of profits.

Usually making a profit means making a good product that people want to buy, but as we learn more about marketing and its influence on human behavior, companies can move more and more into a scenario where artificially inflated desire for the product through advertising impacts your decision to buy a product much more than its quality, making products cheaper to make and more profitable to sell.

It used to be that if EA didn’t make a good game for a fair price, they didn’t make money. But then they realized that they didn’t need to do that anymore, and stopped making games with the same level of quality. Then they realized that they can start charging for individual pieces of the game, and boy has that been a profitable decision for them.