I'm hoping for more character development of the Surprise Mechanic, truly an underrated character in the anime and deserves his own arc or spin-off series.
"I struggle with the perception we're a bunch of bad guys" *literally trying to legalize child gambling, murders dozens of development companies, and has unethical work conditions for its employees*
Not only: -Panic and try to rename their product because public perception is too negative -Equate habitual gambling to kinder eggs -Release unfinished games and price them at $60
EA: “Guys we are totally not a bad place to work when compared to third world sweatshops and diamond mines” When you have to compare your workplace satisfaction with that of literal sweatshops you may have gone off the deep end a bit
Plus, if the casinos give you prizes of Monopoly money for board games you already bought, rather than prizes worth real money, on the off chance that you do get lucky.
"Theres too much car in this car!" Id like to personally take this time to thank Mr Sterling for giving us quite possibly the greatest summary as to how EA fucked up the last Need For Speed game with goddamned Cards instead of actual performance parts.
i played one of the newer need for speed games at the time, and once i figured out you cant manually shift at all and the other drivers have a catchup mechanic, i never looked back lol, think it was nfs 2012, still love playin nfs carbon tho
“We’re not the bad guys” >Killed Dead Space and Visceral Games >Shut down a lot of studios >Has games with P2W mecahnics >SimCity >Battlefront 2 fiasco Totally not the bad guys
ContraryPython The BF2 shit hurts even more because it’s a massive weight on Dice’s efforts to actually fix the damn thing, since everyone relates the game with the loot box shit now
"What about the fast food workers in the Midwest?" "YES! ITS TERRIBLE! I can't believe this is the working conditions of modern America. By voting in pro-Union, pro-working class politicians that can take the fight to these evil corporations that are draining the American working class of life, blood and their hard earned money. LETS DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!" "... Wow buddy, you're starting to sound a lil SOCIALIST (thunder and lightning in the background). We don't want that, do we?"
LOL! The "Working as a developer for EA is kinda better than working in a sweatshop in southeast Asia... kinda... right?" argument is the best thing I've ever heard.
Imagine having to work hard and get an expensive university degree to be treated like a sweatshop worker. Why is this even a valid comparison? It's ridiculous!
I believe that specific argument is actually the Fallacy of Relative Privation: "That other thing is worse than what we do, so you shouldn't care about our misdeeds." Or alternatively "That other thing is just as bad, so this thing isn't important." Whereas in actuality, bad is bad, so of course we should care. It's not a competition, and it's impossible to fix every problem in the world, so being told not to worry about some of them is nonsense. Also, doesn't that particular defence of EA, with "I bet they have it no worse than at other companies, probably better, I bet"... sound kind of like it was written by a certain "man" who should never have been president of the United States?^^;
Can guarantee this from firsthand experience. I faked my own kidnapping when I was in the ninth grade. But I told that lie so often that now I kind of believe that I got kidnapped so I don't feel bad about lying about it. It seems as if that's something which actually happened to me.
Assuming they were aware of their lies to begin with from beginning to end. Never underestimate the added variable of sheer incompetence. EA as all companies are run by middle aged to elderly old rich cunts that are complete out of touch with reality. All hail the profits.............love live The Corporate Empire May the dollars be with you, so say we all
in a way you have to look at most of the studios took in my EA were on the brink of collapse anyways, from a purely business output you have to obtain them if the chance comes as Westwood, visceral etc all had massive titles at one point or another. if they came up cheap to obtain then it makes no sense not too, since you can either obtain and throw the IP's so no one can make money or you try to re establish the company under your wing which obviously didn't work either which is why they were all ceased.
Ultima Online(EAs longest living game), was a game that EA never wanted to create, and the devs pretty much had to beg EA for years to allow them to dev it. Ultima Online was the first graphical MMO, and its still more feature filled than MMOs of this day. EA got rid of the original devs of Ultima Online, a few months after release.
It is so blatantly obvious that the ONLY reason they are bank rolling indie titles is to fabricate good PR. And even then they probably wouldn't do it if it wasn't for the fact that most indie projects are cheap to pay for. You don't see that level of "generosity" for the type of games that are swiftly becoming a lost art, the so called middle shelf games (or "double A if you will) like singularity, SOMA, prototype, most of the PS 2 library etc.
I'm not so sure the illegality of it would stop them if there was profit in it. They'd just argue that they disagreed with the authorities interpretation of the law, and anyways it isn't stabbing a baby, it's providing the baby with the fun activity of trying to avoid being stabbed and they cannot possibly be held accountable for the baby's failure to use their product responsibly and in moderation.
I'd stab a baby while looking at an EA exec right in his fucking eyes just to make sure he understands what I'm capable of doing to him if they continue this fucking assclownery. Drag this mother fuckers before a subcommittee and sweat them in front of congress and then impose the regulations before I get too worked up plz US govt
Black Box Games: Founded in 1999, acquired by EA in in 2002. Known for Need for Speed and Skate. Shuttered in 2013 after years of EA whittling away its studios and staff. Bullfrog Productions Limited: Founded in 1987, acquired by EA in 1995. Known for titles like Syndicate, Theme Park, and Dungeon Keeper. Rendered defunct in 2001 after merger into EA UK (Later EA Bright Light, itself shuttered in 2011.), though EA had driven off most of the top talent - including Co-Founder Peter Molyneux in 1997 - and cancelled numerous projects before then. Burst Studios: Founded in 1995 as a sister studio to Westwood, acquired by EA in 1998. It developed Nox and co-developed some of the later C&C games. Later renamed EA Pacific, it was absorbed into EALA in 2003. Headgate Studios: Founded in 1992, acquired by EA in 2006. Known mostly for its golf games before EA got their hands on it. Renamed EA Salt Lake, it developed titles for the Wii, and was later shuffled into the Maxis fold, before being shuttered in 2017. Kesmai: Founded in 1981, this pioneering game studio was best known for the Air Warrior series. Acquired by EA from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in 1999, it was shuttered in 2001 with most of its staff being split between Lodestone Games and what would become Maxis East. Mythic Entertainment: Created in 1995 through the merger of Adventures Unlimited Software and Interesting Systems, acquired by EA in 2006, who renamed it EA Mythic. Best known for its MMOs, including Dark Age of Camelot. Shuffled around and drained of staff as part of a 2009 restructuring, it was finally shuttered in 2014. NuFX: Founded in 1990, acquired by EA in 2004. Best known for its NBA titles including NBA Live and NBA Street. EA merged it into EA Chicago upon acquisition, rendering it defunct. Origin Systems: Founded in 1980, acquired by EA in 1992. Best known for Ultima and Wing Commander. Wound down from a high of 300 employees, following Ultima IX's poor reception it was refocused towards solely providing support for Ultima Online. It was shuttered, and had its final title - Ultima X - cancelled, in 2004. Pandemic Studios: Founded in 1998, it and BioWare were acquired by EA from VG Holding Corp. in 2008. Known for titles including the original Star Wars Battlefront series and Destroy All Humans! EA shuttered Pandemic in 2009, as part of a general cut that caused 1500 EA employees to lose their jobs. Phenomic Game Development: Founded in 1997, and acquired by EA in 2006. Known for the SpellForce series, it was later made to fill the shoes of Origin and Westwood, developing a title for Ultima and Command & Conquer. Closed in 2013, resulting in the loss of 60 jobs. Playfish: Founded in 2007, and acquired by EA in 2009. A developer of FtP Social Network games, mostly developed for Facebook. By 2013, Playfish's four founders had left EA, and its titles were retired the same year, rendering them no longer playable. Visceral Games: Founded as EA Redwood Shores in 1998. Best known for Dead Space, it was in the process of developing a Star Wars title known by the codename of Project Ragtag when the game was cancelled, and Visceral shuttered, in 2017. EA CEO Andrew Wilson claims the closure was based on 'listening to feedback' and 'market trends,' but the closure is best seen as a sign of EA's waning interest in Single-Player titles. Westwood Studios: Founded in 1985, and acquired by EA in 1998. The Codifier of the RTS Genre, releasing titles including Command & Conquer and Dune II (and it's remake, Dune 2000). After C&C: Renegade and Earth & Beyond failed to meet expectations, it was merged into EALA in 2003, resulting in the layoffs of about 100 employees. EA has far too much red in its ledger to write them off as simple mistakes.
Damn, someone make a kickstarter to get a monument built for all of EA's victims o.0 Always wondered what happened to Ultima Online - shoulda figured EA had something to do with it.
Great companies. Great game series IPs. Frick knows how many individual human beings who had foolishly hoped to work in game development while retaining a modicum of dignity, sanity, health, personal/family life. Flimsy indie label shield aside, EA do not create. They don't nurture. EA only know how to plunder and destroy. Take and take until there's nothing left but ashes and regret.
"EA has far too much red in its ledger" Pity EA can't be thrown off a cliff to acquire the Soul Stone. You'd have to find someone who loves EA for that to work. You'd have an easier time finding snow in a desert.
@@doubledouble4g379 Not to mention, the flaky Ultima9 own it's demise to Ultima Online. Someone had made the decision to move all the staff to UO, and by the time they where brought back to U9 (3 years later) they had to recode and redo most of the game... With EA breathing down their necks. Which gave us a very short and weird game. The original plan for Ultima9 was a full game with companions, and reclaiming artefacts from older games to make the protagonist (Male or female) become the Titan of Ether and finally destroy the Guardian. I remember reading there would be dynamic storms and boat travel reminiscent of the Ultima5 days, and old artefact like the QuickSword (Ultima2), companions party and all. Ultima9 was gutted for UO, and then Origin was gutted by EA. So seeing EA like bad guys for 25 years is dead-on to me. Imagine a new Ultima Online today with agressive micros... It would be unplayable.
That and there's a 19 minute video, curtesy of Whalers anonymous, "Monetize and f*** your customers for dummies" that proves just how educated they are on manipulating their customers.
Doug I don’t do drugs, I was giving an example of how addiction isn’t a thing you can just stop. I’m no expert but as I understand it the majority of addictions are caused by one mistake not someone failing to understand that the thing they are addicted to (drugs, gambling etc.) has negative effects
EA: "We're not bad guys! We let indie developers take all the profit for their games!" ------- Kingpin: "I'm not a villain, I have scholarships for the children in our city!"
I hate to over dramatize it but the truth is that EA is THE villain of the gaming story. Atleast of this anime arc. We still got Bethesda eluding to it next season.
Bethesda is the guy that was once a good guy, but the temptation and allure of the dark side became too much for them, and thus was slowly corrupted and betrayed the good guys they fought so hard for.
@@magicrainbowkitties1023 I promise it'll be the more exciting storyline, mainly because they'll rise from the ashes of EA, or worse work in the shadows along with it. Either way, its poopoo.
@@AlphaladZXA Irrelevant. The crafty mischief guy in the back at best. Was a big villain for one moment but lost relevant IP's so they are now in the past.
This... I can't bear to look at what's going to happen to DA... And I don't hate DAII. DAI was disappointing in the story/RPG departament. And it can only get worse now. ME deserved better ending... but at least the trilogy Dead Space. Jesus, the pain.
Mass Effect was my favorite sci-fy series ever. I led the anti-Anthem charge before it even came out. As far as me personally: Bioware is dead till it fixes Mass Effect.
Command and conquer should be added to this list because that one was destroyed before most of those than EA took it's corpse out for a stroll with CNC rivals
15:40 - I hate the argument, that "others have it worse, so why should we improve?" ... Because it doesn't have to be so horrible! Be nice to fix other issues, but keeping your work place rubbish, isn't helping them either!
Exactly, corporations always go with this stupid mentality. If your defense is "Why would we try to be better when all we can do is not being the worst?", it says a fucking lot about how valuable your company really is. Imagine a lawyer, trying to defend a school shooter with the argument "Hey, at least he isn't worse than Hitler"... So fucking what? The fact that he isn't the worst guy doesn't make him a bad guy? He should be free of punishments for that?
"Oh, no! I accidentallied the lootboxes! They weren't supposed to go in! What a disaster! Dungeon Keeper mobile blocks were supposed to take seconds, not hours! Oops!"
Ah shit I keep making profit! At the same I was totally meaning to donate 100 million to various charities instead of making 100 million from all these missteps! Argh, I keep screwing up, sorry guys! Mistakes happen, especially in a massive number from an allegedly highly professional corporation!
This fall into that ancient saying I heard off of some random hobo years back: "People don't feel guilt or shame for doing bad stuff, that comes when they're caught and have to pay for it... now gimme that bottle!"
EA: "And if we are caught, it's only a large mistake if our legal team can't argue us out of it!" (man whispers into EAs ear for a second) EA: "What do you mean Belgium declared loot boxes gambling!? And what does this have to do with our surprise mechanics? Which are not loot boxes for self evident reasons."
Luke Skywalker and the rest of the rebel alliance are trying to take down the Emperor and his evil empire, but funding a rebellion isn’t cheap! Luke Skywalker needs your credit card number, the expiration date, and the three numbers on the back so that he can get the proton torpedoes he needs to blow up the Death Star! May the Force be with you!
Also, Han and Chewie need your social security number in order to fuel the Millennium Falcon...or you can wait 200 hours in order to move 1 space on the board towards the death star
Just a side note, dungeon keeper mobile is still on Google Play. I didn't download it but it's recent reviews say it's still filled to the brim with microtransactions, so despite promising it to do better, they did nothing
come on man, of course they fucking did better! they put even more micro transactions to the point it acts like ransomware, monitoring everything and psychologically manipulating you to spend more money if you ever want to have 'casual fun'.
It's not even the obscenely huge piles of money, it's the lack of respect displayed by EA - no respect for it's employees, it's customers, it's own IP, the medium itself, the law...
Double Double 4G I don't think they know what respect is even though they have more than enough money to buy all the dictionaries in the world in every languages that ever existed.
17:53 Entirely untrue, I'd say EA is absolutely an expert on addiction and probably has a couple sociologists on speed dial for consultation to make sure they're doing addiction right.
EA and other such companies hire psychologists to contribute on designing lootbox systems to give them a certain flare the consumer might find appealing. Like Overwatch's box opening and seeing those colored coins fly in the air and the music. Psychologists were behind that.
Most corporations spend millions on psychologist/psychiatrist to learn how to manipulate consumers. Meanwhile consumers dont realize theyre getting conned. Teach your children psychology folks. Dont let them become tools.
at least Russia industrialized rapidly raising the standard of living and helped defeat the nazis on top of the atrocities and murder of a couple million people, EA has no positive large scale positive impact on the world its just bad
Remind me of the South Park episodes with BP. Star Wars BF II lootboxes EA : " We're sorry. " Anthem EA : " Sorry. " FIFA surprise mechanics EA : " We're deeply sorry. "
it legally is, fiduciary laws make it illegal not to maximize profit for investors. It's the explicit purpose of capital and slavery is only off the top as far as they don't get in trouble for it (sweatshops and the like)
They'd probably start making out in the ring and rub each other with wads of cash. And then they'd team up to go after all the faces and complain that people think they're heel when they're just beating up other wrestlers - while slamming chairs and bats on the backs of some poor local performers who were intended to be cheap fodder for Brock Lesner.
Nah; the Daleks are all over at Activision/Blizzard. EA is staffed by Cybermen. YOU. WILL. BE. RETAINED. YOU. WILL. BE. MONETIZED. OUR. BANK. ACCOUNTS. WILL. BE. UPGRADED.
Companies like EA and Blizzard have been using loot boxes for so long at this point, I doubt they even know how to make a functioning progression system that actually rewards players for playing the game.
I just imagine looking out and aeeing a bunch of jems falling out of his clothes and car... And the asortment of randomly sized packages. Also, I feel like I would have seen him performing poetry at some point, as well as his giant purple dildo as it was getting tossed to the curb.
This is the same strategy Facebook uses every time there is a data-scandal. "Oops, sorry, we will do better in the future." It could maybe be more believable if they'd publicly state HOW they plan to do better, and demonstrate those plans in motion. But that resembles accountability. You actually have to demonstrably do better and KEEP DOING BETTER. And fat chance of that.
There is no accountability for these corporations, or very little. Because it interferes with 'business'. Business today is based on the idea that 'a person will act in their best self-interest, which is getting people to like them, so they will behave. Those that don't get the message will be left in the dust. This means everyone else benefits either way." But that 'selfishness is good' idea is an overall big picture sort of thing. It doesn't really feel good to wish for a company to die. Why wish for it to flounder and waste all of that manpower and capital and resources when we should be able to slap them upside the head and scream "GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS". Yes, some people will never get it and they shouldn't be pulled out of the quicksand every time, but they should also not be able to trample everything--the resources, the brilliant minds, the licenses--while they're in their spiraling death throes. A company can kill creativity and ambition, but a failed company doesn't necessarily mean that that same creativity will be resurrected in another place. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not like employees can take their projects to another place and continue to work on them. The licenses are not owned by the coders and shaders and script writers who put hours upon hours into making a game for us, a game they want to see in the stores so they can actually get rewarded for their labor. I feel for these people so much.
I’d imagine their unspoken plan for “how to do ‘better’” is to rebrand it as something positive and cross their fingers that the public doesn’t catch on this time. Since their execs definition of “better” entirely revolves around how much money they and their shareholders are making, in that order.
Yeah, and Hitler didn't think he was a bad guy, either. "Yes, I "saved" my country even though I caused millions of people to die horrible, painful deaths."
I think hardly anything grinds my gears more than philanthropism in modern day capitalism. Being philanthropic is something you do AFTER you have fulfilled your duties to society, paid your taxes, created a pleasent work environment for your employees and delivered experiences without exploiting tendencies towards addiction. It is NOT a way to buy goodwill, as that is something one cannot buy. It is something you earn through your actions as a whole not by performing some good philanthropic acts. You don't get to buy off your "mistakes", I am sure Jim will remind you of that. Thank you Jim for the great work you're doing.
What's wrong with being a bag guy? It's not a glamorous job, but it helps people get their shopping done faster and is a nice assist for the elderly. Anything that pays the bills.
Not to mention corporations try to have it both ways. They want to be as inhumanly greedy and expoitative as they can get away with, but we are still supposed to see their actions as "human mistakes".
@ϟϟ White Wolf ϟϟ well it seems a lot of people do. Suprise mechanic is a fine concept. You seem mad. Are you a regular wiewer? Seems to me you are not.
They are easily manipulated and malleable instruments of PR hogwash. However, I don't hate the player (the indie studiohead), I hate the game (EA's business practices).
EA: Digs up a part of my childhood, burns it to the ground, and then pisses on the ashes -> "why does everyone think we're bad guys?" "mistakes", as if it's anything but premeditated; it's like a sociopath trying to gaslight someone.
A studio is it's talent, sand Bioware has been bleeding that. If it's not dead now that's only becuse EA has rented the cheapest life support it can find.
I believe the sole purpose of the EA Originals programm is to scout potential newcomer studios for EA to swallow up and digest. So much for the “good intentions”...
@@chrisbuttonshaw2088 It's essentially exactly that. If they can't have them or themselves, they will exert as much control as possible. It's the equivalent of Walmart helping out small, local businesses. It's not that they wouldn't destroy them first chance, it's that if they can't do that, they'll at least control their development. EA is quite literally the Reapers from Mass Effect.
@@Arrakiz666 so does that mean we'll be amassing armies from across the Galaxy to destroy them only to have the choice boil down to three different colored options?
"Very friendly deals for Indie Developers" LIke that time EA had the rights to rip off participants games buried in the contract for a showcase for indie talent... Totally not bad guys right?
I know, I feel bad for the indie devs. Its like watching a bunch of characters in a horror movie go into a very obvious bad area that you know are going to get horribly butchered. Only its real life and real people who are suffering and not someone you want to see dead.
Ea: Fires devs Closes studios Exploits micro transactions Also Ea: why u hate us >:o Edit: Also if you’re reading this Jim been here since 100k subs 👌🤜
EA: man you guys, im really tired of being called the bad guy. everyone: then stop absorbing and shutting down good studios, stop interfering with game developers vision, stop releasing full priced $60 unfinished crap loaded with predatory micro transactions. EA: no, but really, stop calling us bad guys, we really don't understand it.
When SimCity, the always-online one, came out EA was doing a campaign to change their image. Going forward they would be a "Player-First" company. We learn from our mistakes! We change!
Yeah that went pretty well, didn't it? Turns out that Player First was just their answer to the question "who's going to bend over and get bled by this big corporate dildo?"
The villain of the Ultima series was literally inspired by EA. They put out something about changing to be nicer somewhere every few years back then too.
EA: "We can learn from our mistakes" buy studio> force them to do something because it is trend/profitable> game sells poorly> blame studio despite they warning this would happen since day 1> close studio How many times this cycle happened, EA?
I'm hoping for more character development of the Surprise Mechanic, truly an underrated character in the anime and deserves his own arc or spin-off series.
He needs his film at this point.
Fuck it, an entire franchise.
Gotta team him up with Cornflake homunculus in a buddy-cop movie, and that'll get you an Oscar.
Sometimes EA just make it all too easy...
He's already quotable as hell. "There's too much car in this car!"
Can we get the Surprise Mechanic Cinematic Universe?
"I struggle with the perception we're a bunch of bad guys"
*literally trying to legalize child gambling, murders dozens of development companies, and has unethical work conditions for its employees*
I think Bioware will end up being shut down soon
This is exactly it.
Tbh most jobs do.
You....you don't understand....my evil plan was going to saaave the world!... Mwahaha *dies*
Not only:
-Panic and try to rename their product because public perception is too negative
-Equate habitual gambling to kinder eggs
-Release unfinished games and price them at $60
EA: I just want ALL of your money, is that so bad?
Everyone: Yes.
EA: I struggle with your opinion.
*with your perception of bad
Everyone:that's bc your assholes
EA: “Guys we are totally not a bad place to work when compared to third world sweatshops and diamond mines”
When you have to compare your workplace satisfaction with that of literal sweatshops you may have gone off the deep end a bit
New meaning to the phrase: "race to the bottom"
"We're even better to work for than fast food restaurants." I think I trust McDonald's more than I trust that statement.
"We don't have suicide nets, we are a good company. We provide rope."
Does anyone remember when "good guy EA" was actually legit, the Def Jam Vendetta, Fifa Street & Lord of the Rings years?
Right? It’s like, “well I sure hope not!”
EA Building a casino over the graves of the studios they killed
Ea: "We struggle with the perception we are the bad guys"
Coming soon: Toddler Casino! Only on Origin!
This is an amazing analogy, FYI.
Yep.
I wonder if those Game studios are haunting the Executives at EA.
Plus, if the casinos give you prizes of Monopoly money for board games you already bought, rather than prizes worth real money, on the off chance that you do get lucky.
"Theres too much car in this car!"
Id like to personally take this time to thank Mr Sterling for giving us quite possibly the greatest summary as to how EA fucked up the last Need For Speed game with goddamned Cards instead of actual performance parts.
That's perfect. You are so right about that. Too much car, not enough car----ds.
@@akaimizu1 Yeah man
@@akaimizu1 Believe in the heart of the car......ds
i played one of the newer need for speed games at the time, and once i figured out you cant manually shift at all and the other drivers have a catchup mechanic, i never looked back lol, think it was nfs 2012, still love playin nfs carbon tho
@@thegamegarage69 Yep
“We’re not the bad guys”
>Killed Dead Space and Visceral Games
>Shut down a lot of studios
>Has games with P2W mecahnics
>SimCity
>Battlefront 2 fiasco
Totally not the bad guys
ContraryPython The BF2 shit hurts even more because it’s a massive weight on Dice’s efforts to actually fix the damn thing, since everyone relates the game with the loot box shit now
Killed Origin and turned it into the worst PC client, prostituting BioWare, and turning Syndicate into a shooter
- DLC for the DLC for the DLC in Sims 4
Sacrificed Mass effect for a shitshow called anthem....
@@DarkRipper117 sacrificed anthem for DA 4. Let's see what happens ahead.
SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND MINES?!? THAT'S THE EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION BAR WE ARE SUPPOSED TO MEASURE FROM?!?!
"As long as we are not the *worst* on Earth, don't criticise us."
_Capitalists, ever since they exist_
@@onivlasbrony7432 "we don't employ anyone under the age of 8 unlike other companies that do!!" An early english capitalist
"What about the fast food workers in the Midwest?"
"YES! ITS TERRIBLE! I can't believe this is the working conditions of modern America. By voting in pro-Union, pro-working class politicians that can take the fight to these evil corporations that are draining the American working class of life, blood and their hard earned money. LETS DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"
"... Wow buddy, you're starting to sound a lil SOCIALIST (thunder and lightning in the background). We don't want that, do we?"
Yeah, capitalism was working GREAT until those greedy guys spoiled it for everyone! Sux 4 us!
@Albert Wesker Dude. "A good concept"? Really? Greed is at the heart of capitalism. It's not a side effect.
LOL! The "Working as a developer for EA is kinda better than working in a sweatshop in southeast Asia... kinda... right?" argument is the best thing I've ever heard.
That was some grade A classic whataboutism...
Imagine having to work hard and get an expensive university degree to be treated like a sweatshop worker.
Why is this even a valid comparison? It's ridiculous!
I believe that specific argument is actually the Fallacy of Relative Privation: "That other thing is worse than what we do, so you shouldn't care about our misdeeds." Or alternatively "That other thing is just as bad, so this thing isn't important." Whereas in actuality, bad is bad, so of course we should care. It's not a competition, and it's impossible to fix every problem in the world, so being told not to worry about some of them is nonsense.
Also, doesn't that particular defence of EA, with "I bet they have it no worse than at other companies, probably better, I bet"... sound kind of like it was written by a certain "man" who should never have been president of the United States?^^;
@@Stephen-Fox at least call it whatabautism otherwise all my work was for nothing *rolleyes*
imagine actually putting that down on paper without alarm bells going off.
EA: Behaves like bad guys.
The Public: Perceives EA as bad guys.
EA: shocked_pikachu.gif
EA: we don't like being perceived as the bad guys.
Also EA: Proceeds to act like and be the bad gus.
It's not a mugging, it's surprise reallocation of funds.
It's not gambling addiction it's a suprise entusiasm to give us money! -Extruding Assholes.
Andrei Despinoiu you sir have created a new meme and I love it which I’m stealing or borrowing it without your permission/knowledge.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one chief
Its not abortion. Its surprise spawn killing
@@tiraironsyde7251 oof good one
"There's too much car in this car," is one of the funniest lines I have ever heard in anything ever and I cannot tell you why
Car enthusiasts perparing for trackdays refer to this procedure as _"Weight Reduction"_ .
@@onivlasbrony7432 that's hilarious.
As was said in a different thread, EA's Need for Speed Payback makes this even funnier.
My favorite part was him looking up at the guy and just flailing about in a silent panic upon being caught
4 words Jim Fucking Sterling Son
Those who often lie will begin to believe their own deception.
Sounds like a crackhead, I know, I was one.
Trumps a prime example of it
Can guarantee this from firsthand experience. I faked my own kidnapping when I was in the ninth grade. But I told that lie so often that now I kind of believe that I got kidnapped so I don't feel bad about lying about it. It seems as if that's something which actually happened to me.
Assuming they were aware of their lies to begin with from beginning to end.
Never underestimate the added variable of sheer incompetence.
EA as all companies are run by middle aged to elderly old rich cunts that are complete out of touch with reality.
All hail the profits.............love live The Corporate Empire
May the dollars be with you, so say we all
Fake it till you make it.
EA: How are we the bad guys we give so many studios a chance?
*all said while on top of a mass grave of closed studios*
They gave them a chance... To die and to be burried together! :D
they gave them a chance... To get stuffed and hanged onto a wall
in a way you have to look at most of the studios took in my EA were on the brink of collapse anyways, from a purely business output you have to obtain them if the chance comes as Westwood, visceral etc all had massive titles at one point or another.
if they came up cheap to obtain then it makes no sense not too, since you can either obtain and throw the IP's so no one can make money or you try to re establish the company under your wing which obviously didn't work either which is why they were all ceased.
Ultima Online(EAs longest living game), was a game that EA never wanted to create, and the devs pretty much had to beg EA for years to allow them to dev it. Ultima Online was the first graphical MMO, and its still more feature filled than MMOs of this day.
EA got rid of the original devs of Ultima Online, a few months after release.
It is so blatantly obvious that the ONLY reason they are bank rolling indie titles is to fabricate good PR. And even then they probably wouldn't do it if it wasn't for the fact that most indie projects are cheap to pay for.
You don't see that level of "generosity" for the type of games that are swiftly becoming a lost art, the so called middle shelf games (or "double A if you will) like singularity, SOMA, prototype, most of the PS 2 library etc.
EA: Don't pirate our games! That's stealing!
Me: It's not stealing, it's a surprise discount!
Edit: that's a lot of likes
When it concerns EA games I would add that there are no ethical implications on top of that.
It's a surprise unofficial demo extension!
@@DekkarJr LOL ! That's a bit extreme. I approve.
@@arupian666 I don't fight fire with fire my friend, I fight fire with fucking Napalm.
@@bigshrekhorner lets put moral apart
EA would stab a baby for a dollar IF IT WAS LEGAL.
Otherwise they'd have to make lawsuit costs assessment first and then adjust the price accordingly.
I'm not so sure the illegality of it would stop them if there was profit in it. They'd just argue that they disagreed with the authorities interpretation of the law, and anyways it isn't stabbing a baby, it's providing the baby with the fun activity of trying to avoid being stabbed and they cannot possibly be held accountable for the baby's failure to use their product responsibly and in moderation.
I'd stab a baby while looking at an EA exec right in his fucking eyes just to make sure he understands what I'm capable of doing to him if they continue this fucking assclownery. Drag this mother fuckers before a subcommittee and sweat them in front of congress and then impose the regulations before I get too worked up plz US govt
犬走椛 To be fair that profit margin is way, way to low for EA.
they would try and argue it's worth in gaming....
Most capitalists would stab their own babies for a dollar if it was legal, let's be honest.
Black Box Games: Founded in 1999, acquired by EA in in 2002. Known for Need for Speed and Skate. Shuttered in 2013 after years of EA whittling away its studios and staff.
Bullfrog Productions Limited: Founded in 1987, acquired by EA in 1995. Known for titles like Syndicate, Theme Park, and Dungeon Keeper. Rendered defunct in 2001 after merger into EA UK (Later EA Bright Light, itself shuttered in 2011.), though EA had driven off most of the top talent - including Co-Founder Peter Molyneux in 1997 - and cancelled numerous projects before then.
Burst Studios: Founded in 1995 as a sister studio to Westwood, acquired by EA in 1998. It developed Nox and co-developed some of the later C&C games. Later renamed EA Pacific, it was absorbed into EALA in 2003.
Headgate Studios: Founded in 1992, acquired by EA in 2006. Known mostly for its golf games before EA got their hands on it. Renamed EA Salt Lake, it developed titles for the Wii, and was later shuffled into the Maxis fold, before being shuttered in 2017.
Kesmai: Founded in 1981, this pioneering game studio was best known for the Air Warrior series. Acquired by EA from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in 1999, it was shuttered in 2001 with most of its staff being split between Lodestone Games and what would become Maxis East.
Mythic Entertainment: Created in 1995 through the merger of Adventures Unlimited Software and Interesting Systems, acquired by EA in 2006, who renamed it EA Mythic. Best known for its MMOs, including Dark Age of Camelot. Shuffled around and drained of staff as part of a 2009 restructuring, it was finally shuttered in 2014.
NuFX: Founded in 1990, acquired by EA in 2004. Best known for its NBA titles including NBA Live and NBA Street. EA merged it into EA Chicago upon acquisition, rendering it defunct.
Origin Systems: Founded in 1980, acquired by EA in 1992. Best known for Ultima and Wing Commander. Wound down from a high of 300 employees, following Ultima IX's poor reception it was refocused towards solely providing support for Ultima Online. It was shuttered, and had its final title - Ultima X - cancelled, in 2004.
Pandemic Studios: Founded in 1998, it and BioWare were acquired by EA from VG Holding Corp. in 2008. Known for titles including the original Star Wars Battlefront series and Destroy All Humans! EA shuttered Pandemic in 2009, as part of a general cut that caused 1500 EA employees to lose their jobs.
Phenomic Game Development: Founded in 1997, and acquired by EA in 2006. Known for the SpellForce series, it was later made to fill the shoes of Origin and Westwood, developing a title for Ultima and Command & Conquer. Closed in 2013, resulting in the loss of 60 jobs.
Playfish: Founded in 2007, and acquired by EA in 2009. A developer of FtP Social Network games, mostly developed for Facebook. By 2013, Playfish's four founders had left EA, and its titles were retired the same year, rendering them no longer playable.
Visceral Games: Founded as EA Redwood Shores in 1998. Best known for Dead Space, it was in the process of developing a Star Wars title known by the codename of Project Ragtag when the game was cancelled, and Visceral shuttered, in 2017. EA CEO Andrew Wilson claims the closure was based on 'listening to feedback' and 'market trends,' but the closure is best seen as a sign of EA's waning interest in Single-Player titles.
Westwood Studios: Founded in 1985, and acquired by EA in 1998. The Codifier of the RTS Genre, releasing titles including Command & Conquer and Dune II (and it's remake, Dune 2000). After C&C: Renegade and Earth & Beyond failed to meet expectations, it was merged into EALA in 2003, resulting in the layoffs of about 100 employees.
EA has far too much red in its ledger to write them off as simple mistakes.
I felt sick after all that.
It's like reading the detail of how a virus or cancer grows.
Damn, someone make a kickstarter to get a monument built for all of EA's victims o.0
Always wondered what happened to Ultima Online - shoulda figured EA had something to do with it.
Great companies. Great game series IPs. Frick knows how many individual human beings who had foolishly hoped to work in game development while retaining a modicum of dignity, sanity, health, personal/family life.
Flimsy indie label shield aside, EA do not create. They don't nurture.
EA only know how to plunder and destroy. Take and take until there's nothing left but ashes and regret.
"EA has far too much red in its ledger"
Pity EA can't be thrown off a cliff to acquire the Soul Stone. You'd have to find someone who loves EA for that to work. You'd have an easier time finding snow in a desert.
@@doubledouble4g379 Not to mention, the flaky Ultima9 own it's demise to Ultima Online. Someone had made the decision to move all the staff to UO, and by the time they where brought back to U9 (3 years later) they had to recode and redo most of the game... With EA breathing down their necks. Which gave us a very short and weird game. The original plan for Ultima9 was a full game with companions, and reclaiming artefacts from older games to make the protagonist (Male or female) become the Titan of Ether and finally destroy the Guardian. I remember reading there would be dynamic storms and boat travel reminiscent of the Ultima5 days, and old artefact like the QuickSword (Ultima2), companions party and all.
Ultima9 was gutted for UO, and then Origin was gutted by EA. So seeing EA like bad guys for 25 years is dead-on to me.
Imagine a new Ultima Online today with agressive micros... It would be unplayable.
"One good deed does not redeem a man from a lifetime of wickedness."
- Commodore Norrington
But it seems enough to condemn him
Scott Weese indeed
“The hell kinda name is Commodore?”
-Me, watching Pirates 1 for the first time last week
EA: I don't want to be seen as the bad guy.
Also EA: It's a surprise mechanic.
@Dr. Pandemonius alternative distribution methods
@Dr. Pandemonius Surprise software license extension
Surprise discount
Surprise anal
@@aureliousofphoenix7811 basically is EA 😂
17:46 I disagree, Jim. They most definitely are experts on addiction. How else could they exploit it with the maximum effectiveness?
That and there's a 19 minute video, curtesy of Whalers anonymous, "Monetize and f*** your customers for dummies" that proves just how educated they are on manipulating their customers.
"I have detailed files on human anatomy."
"Makes you a better killer..."
"Yes."
Just like how a butcher knows how a cow is put together...
BREAKING NEWS: EA sets record for world's tiniest violin
It's around a centemter divided the amount of people that has died in the world since forever!
UPDATE:
We are sad to report that the world's tiniest violin - as made by EA - has been consumed by a micro organism.
@@BloodfelX Before consumption they tried to sell the violin as an exclusive early access for just 89.99
That thing's got to be smaller than the smallest particles of anti-matter....
@@BloodfelX ah no!!!
That brief moment when all of us thought the Surprise Mechanic skit was going to go in a completely different direction...
We were all thinking it.
First thought:
You can't undo a belt from the back
@@zacharyheine4177 you can tear pants though
I legitimately thought the mechanic stealing the wallet was the mechanic fiddling with a belt buckle
I feel arsefucking would've enhanced the EA-analogy.
Hehe, *anal*ogy.
WWWHYyY aRRe PeOEPLE HoldDIDIng meE AcCOCUntABle FOr MyyY AccTtitOnsSnsn!?!? -EA
Imagine if customers held themselves accountable for their dumb financial decisions
Doug why would people have drug addictions, they should just hold themselves accountable for their own dumb health decisions
@@Alice-dp7nv maybe dont be an idiot and binge on drugs to begin with. Control yourself.
@@doug2731 Maybe dont be a dick.
Doug I don’t do drugs, I was giving an example of how addiction isn’t a thing you can just stop. I’m no expert but as I understand it the majority of addictions are caused by one mistake not someone failing to understand that the thing they are addicted to (drugs, gambling etc.) has negative effects
"Are we the baddies?"
-- Some grunt working for EA
Our hats have got skulls on!
The grunts all know they're the baddies--the executives are the ones asking that question
Tell me the truth... Are we all a bunch a bastards? -EA Marketing
Baddies so bad, I’m surprised dramatic fight or flight music doesn’t play when a CEO shows up.
@@30noir Maybe they're the skulls of our enemies?
I didn’t punch the EA CEO, it was a surprise discomfort
You mean a surprise altercation
Surprise discomforting fist bump into the abdomen.
Surprise nose job
@@scottthewaterwarrior omg I'm stealing that one XD
Suprise face fistbump
EA: "We're not bad guys! We let indie developers take all the profit for their games!"
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Kingpin: "I'm not a villain, I have scholarships for the children in our city!"
"did you give those scholarships just so that you'd have that excuse now?"
"...maybe?"
"How can we be bad guys when we did this one thing to make it look like we're not bad guys any more? =D"
Fantastic analogy!
@@noahgray543 Kingpin: "Nah, i extor- i mean convince them to work for my organization after they graduate, to do totally legal occupations."
Watching the sketch at the start: "Oh my... that's cheesy"
*THE SUPRISE MECHANIC*
"OH MY THAT'S GENIUS!"
I didn't get it first but now I got it
I thought the exact same thing. Major claps for that skit.
Same!! Noetic af!!!!
"There's too much car in this car!" -me, shoulder-deep in engine bay, awkwardly removing a bolt 1/16 of a turn at a time
“There’s too much car in this car!”
and VW techs everywhere nod in sympathy
I hate to over dramatize it but the truth is that EA is THE villain of the gaming story. Atleast of this anime arc. We still got Bethesda eluding to it next season.
Bethesda is the guy that was once a good guy, but the temptation and allure of the dark side became too much for them, and thus was slowly corrupted and betrayed the good guys they fought so hard for.
@@magicrainbowkitties1023 I promise it'll be the more exciting storyline, mainly because they'll rise from the ashes of EA, or worse work in the shadows along with it. Either way, its poopoo.
@@ShadeyClaymore then what is Activision
@@AlphaladZXA Irrelevant. The crafty mischief guy in the back at best. Was a big villain for one moment but lost relevant IP's so they are now in the past.
@@magicrainbowkitties1023
..huh... Reminds me of when Sasuke went to Orochimaru.
I'll never forgive EA for destroying Mass Effect, Dead Space, Dragon Age, or Warhammer Reckoning just to name a few.
This...
I can't bear to look at what's going to happen to DA... And I don't hate DAII. DAI was disappointing in the story/RPG departament. And it can only get worse now.
ME deserved better ending... but at least the trilogy
Dead Space. Jesus, the pain.
I'll never forgive EA for burying the Road Rash series for decades.
Command and conquer. I miss it
Mass Effect was my favorite sci-fy series ever. I led the anti-Anthem charge before it even came out. As far as me personally: Bioware is dead till it fixes Mass Effect.
Command and conquer should be added to this list because that one was destroyed before most of those than EA took it's corpse out for a stroll with CNC rivals
15:40 - I hate the argument, that "others have it worse, so why should we improve?"
... Because it doesn't have to be so horrible! Be nice to fix other issues, but keeping your work place rubbish, isn't helping them either!
And because the people who have it worse shouldn't either, that stuff's bullshit too!
Super YIKES that argument.
Exactly, corporations always go with this stupid mentality. If your defense is "Why would we try to be better when all we can do is not being the worst?", it says a fucking lot about how valuable your company really is.
Imagine a lawyer, trying to defend a school shooter with the argument "Hey, at least he isn't worse than Hitler"... So fucking what? The fact that he isn't the worst guy doesn't make him a bad guy? He should be free of punishments for that?
EA: A better place to work than diamond mines. Put that in your job posting.
"At least we're not as bad as sweatshops."
How can anyone say that with a straight face?
The Android Wilson voice sounds exactly like a Dalek, which is just perfect.
I wish someone would make like a Dalek and EX-TER-MIN-ATE him.
"Oh, no! I accidentallied the lootboxes! They weren't supposed to go in! What a disaster! Dungeon Keeper mobile blocks were supposed to take seconds, not hours! Oops!"
"sorry, I'm trying to remove it"
"Oops, accidentally got some people hooked on loot boxes!" [Sad trombone]
Help! I accidentally the entire video game industry. Is this dangerous??
Ah shit I keep making profit! At the same I was totally meaning to donate 100 million to various charities instead of making 100 million from all these missteps! Argh, I keep screwing up, sorry guys! Mistakes happen, especially in a massive number from an allegedly highly professional corporation!
EA: "It's only a mistake if we get caught".
This fall into that ancient saying I heard off of some random hobo years back: "People don't feel guilt or shame for doing bad stuff, that comes when they're caught and have to pay for it... now gimme that bottle!"
They make a lot of mistakes then.
EA: "And if we are caught, it's only a large mistake if our legal team can't argue us out of it!"
(man whispers into EAs ear for a second)
EA: "What do you mean Belgium declared loot boxes gambling!? And what does this have to do with our surprise mechanics? Which are not loot boxes for self evident reasons."
Luke Skywalker and the rest of the rebel alliance are trying to take down the Emperor and his evil empire, but funding a rebellion isn’t cheap! Luke Skywalker needs your credit card number, the expiration date, and the three numbers on the back so that he can get the proton torpedoes he needs to blow up the Death Star! May the Force be with you!
😂
Also, Han and Chewie need your social security number in order to fuel the Millennium Falcon...or you can wait 200 hours in order to move 1 space on the board towards the death star
Empire did nothing wrong though.
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@Meth Damon
Great username.
'Could be worse, you could be forced to work in a diamond mine in Africa.' I'm gonna use this one in my daily life and see how far I get. Jeeeeeeeesus
Yeah, they really are setting the bar of what they want to be compared to with such statements.
Still sounds more fun than working at EA imo
Just a side note, dungeon keeper mobile is still on Google Play. I didn't download it but it's recent reviews say it's still filled to the brim with microtransactions, so despite promising it to do better, they did nothing
*Low res shocked Pikachu face*
come on man, of course they fucking did better! they put even more micro transactions to the point it acts like ransomware, monitoring everything and psychologically manipulating you to spend more money if you ever want to have 'casual fun'.
So much for learning from their "mistakes."
Thanks for the update. Jim should see this.
I'd just get DosBox for Android (don't know what to say for iPhone users) and install Dungeon Keeper on DosBox. Or play Dungeon Keeper on PC.
When Jim bent that man over the hood of that car i didn't think he was just gunna take his wallet.....
Me? That was the Surprise Mechanic!
ruclips.net/video/SGeXzM13TY0/видео.html
I thought he was going in for a wedgie, personally.
He seemed very willing though.....
To be fair, ea seem like the kind to rename THAT a surprise mechanic
It's not even the obscenely huge piles of money, it's the lack of respect displayed by EA - no respect for it's employees, it's customers, it's own IP, the medium itself, the law...
Double Double 4G I don't think they know what respect is even though they have more than enough money to buy all the dictionaries in the world in every languages that ever existed.
“Misunderstood heros in the eyes of independent developers”
* puts up venom *
Me: well played
Good lord, he actually did it! He made the "Surprise Mechanic" a character!
... Did you honestly think he wasn't going to? After the Cornflakes Homunculus was a thing?
I love the way the Jim Sterling cinematic universe is shaping up.
@@smygskytt1712 Now we just have to wait for the epic crossover movie where they all put aside their differences, and battle Unicronix Arts.
@@Fadingxx you know.... He's on speaking terms with linkara... Who's pretty darn good at large single-man casts occupying the same shots
I was a bit concerned when he started grabbing the guy's pants
_"There's too much Car in this Car."_
_Amazing._
17:53 Entirely untrue, I'd say EA is absolutely an expert on addiction and probably has a couple sociologists on speed dial for consultation to make sure they're doing addiction right.
Yup. If there's one thing EA has probably spent a handsome sum to become experts at, it's addiction. All the better to exploit it.
EA and other such companies hire psychologists to contribute on designing lootbox systems to give them a certain flare the consumer might find appealing. Like Overwatch's box opening and seeing those colored coins fly in the air and the music. Psychologists were behind that.
Most corporations spend millions on psychologist/psychiatrist to learn how to manipulate consumers. Meanwhile consumers dont realize theyre getting conned. Teach your children psychology folks. Dont let them become tools.
@@Ghoffman91 turn off the music before opening lootboxes you might prevent addictive brainwashing.
You can be sure there are psychologists employed and studies made to improve their whale hunting. They know exactly what they're doing and to whom.
"EA games, At least we're better than Stalins Russia"
For now. Give them time.
at least Russia industrialized rapidly raising the standard of living and helped defeat the nazis on top of the atrocities and murder of a couple million people, EA has no positive large scale positive impact on the world its just bad
SURPRISE MECHANIC
What a nice surprise.
I'm on board with the continued adventures of the surprise mechanic.
Remind me of the South Park episodes with BP.
Star Wars BF II lootboxes
EA : " We're sorry. "
Anthem
EA : " Sorry. "
FIFA surprise mechanics
EA : " We're deeply sorry. "
A corporations primary concern is making money, sounds like a slave owner trying to justify slavery.
it legally is, fiduciary laws make it illegal not to maximize profit for investors. It's the explicit purpose of capital and slavery is only off the top as far as they don't get in trouble for it (sweatshops and the like)
I want to see ''Surprise Mechanic vs corporate commander'' in WWE no way out
Yes! I would pay to see that!
Ya, i would love to see Angry Joe & Jim in a cross over, but the topic would probably be raging on loot boxes and other anti-consumer behaviour.
They'd probably start making out in the ring and rub each other with wads of cash. And then they'd team up to go after all the faces and complain that people think they're heel when they're just beating up other wrestlers - while slamming chairs and bats on the backs of some poor local performers who were intended to be cheap fodder for Brock Lesner.
Clearly they're in the same stable.
Corporate Commander would beat the living ***t out of him
5:40 I can absolutley see a Dalek being in charge of EA (or any AAA company).
“MONETIZE!!! MONETIZE!!! MONETIZE!!!”
"DO NOT RESIST LOOT BOXES, CONSUME, CONSUME!!!"
Nah; the Daleks are all over at Activision/Blizzard.
EA is staffed by Cybermen. YOU. WILL. BE. RETAINED. YOU. WILL. BE. MONETIZED. OUR. BANK. ACCOUNTS. WILL. BE. UPGRADED.
The sad truth is that corporations like EA are indistinguishable from "paperclip maximiser" AI that the scientists are warning us against...
Companies like EA and Blizzard have been using loot boxes for so long at this point, I doubt they even know how to make a functioning progression system that actually rewards players for playing the game.
EA: gay-eem? What is this gay-eem you speak of? We only make live services here!
SPAKELDORF service implies their products are beneficial, or that they’re even functional
"surprise mechanic" jim makes the best characters based on the worst human behaviours.
I think I would enjoy Jim Sterling as a neighbor. It would never be boring
If you don’t mind losing your car
@@XescoPicas no that was Surprise Candidate
I just imagine looking out and aeeing a bunch of jems falling out of his clothes and car... And the asortment of randomly sized packages. Also, I feel like I would have seen him performing poetry at some point, as well as his giant purple dildo as it was getting tossed to the curb.
What, you want him to piss in your gas tank while yelling about breathing through his skin? No thanks
The cornflake homonculous (spelling?) And the Surprise Mechanic would be scary to live near.
Also be careful of the halloween or Christmas specials
"We littered our game with micro transactions and ripped out satisfying progression through gameplay. WHOOPS. OUR MISTAKE."
XplodeOman It was a mistake that we have no intention of changing and we are adding that mistake to all our games.
"And made an obscene amount of money in the process. Also our mistake."
"You'd think 5 bucks wouldn't be much to a corporation, but they'd stab a baby for a dollar" is one of my new favorite Jim quotes
😂😂
Mouth of Sauron: "Listen... We aren't as bad as EA."
I trust Sauron more than EA at this point
"EA should be more like us we listen"
-Todd Howard.
⭐💧
Heard you were having some PR problems, here’s 500 atoms for ya!
It just works!
If that was true, Fallout 4 would be made by Obsidian and Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Blades not exist at all.
Screw you Todd...you still owe me $195 worth of Atoms....
This is the same strategy Facebook uses every time there is a data-scandal. "Oops, sorry, we will do better in the future."
It could maybe be more believable if they'd publicly state HOW they plan to do better, and demonstrate those plans in motion. But that resembles accountability. You actually have to demonstrably do better and KEEP DOING BETTER. And fat chance of that.
There is no accountability for these corporations, or very little. Because it interferes with 'business'. Business today is based on the idea that 'a person will act in their best self-interest, which is getting people to like them, so they will behave. Those that don't get the message will be left in the dust. This means everyone else benefits either way." But that 'selfishness is good' idea is an overall big picture sort of thing. It doesn't really feel good to wish for a company to die. Why wish for it to flounder and waste all of that manpower and capital and resources when we should be able to slap them upside the head and scream "GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS". Yes, some people will never get it and they shouldn't be pulled out of the quicksand every time, but they should also not be able to trample everything--the resources, the brilliant minds, the licenses--while they're in their spiraling death throes.
A company can kill creativity and ambition, but a failed company doesn't necessarily mean that that same creativity will be resurrected in another place. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not like employees can take their projects to another place and continue to work on them. The licenses are not owned by the coders and shaders and script writers who put hours upon hours into making a game for us, a game they want to see in the stores so they can actually get rewarded for their labor. I feel for these people so much.
People not realising that Grodon Gecko's 'Greed is Good' speech is meant to show him as a villain, and all that.
This makes Google+ the best site as Google had shut it down due to a similar data breach scandal.
they have unencrypted passwords in their databases... just... they are not even trying anymore, are they?
I’d imagine their unspoken plan for “how to do ‘better’” is to rebrand it as something positive and cross their fingers that the public doesn’t catch on this time. Since their execs definition of “better” entirely revolves around how much money they and their shareholders are making, in that order.
That opening... 😂😂 Jim Sterling you're a legend.
*THERE'S TOO MUCH CAR IN THIS CAR!*
Yeah, and Hitler didn't think he was a bad guy, either. "Yes, I "saved" my country even though I caused millions of people to die horrible, painful deaths."
TheDracoChick Winner of the Godwin Award.
AlastrionaCatskill You misunderstand the circumstances that you referred to.
It was a “learning experience.”
Jim, PLEASE use that robot voice filter for Android Wilson in the future. I was in tears.
It was wonderful.
Heh yea that cracked me up. It sounded like he was trying to do a Dalek
@@paul6925 it was definitely a Dalek
@@paul6925 That's what I immediately thought! Lol
I was weeeeeak bruh
EA: Better place to work at than a third world sweatshop.
Yeah, great, put that in your marketing material.
I think hardly anything grinds my gears more than philanthropism in modern day capitalism.
Being philanthropic is something you do AFTER you have fulfilled your duties to society, paid your taxes, created a pleasent work environment for your employees and delivered experiences without exploiting tendencies towards addiction. It is NOT a way to buy goodwill, as that is something one cannot buy. It is something you earn through your actions as a whole not by performing some good philanthropic acts. You don't get to buy off your "mistakes", I am sure Jim will remind you of that. Thank you Jim for the great work you're doing.
Thank you for introducing me to a new word philanthropism
One can argue philanthropy was always this. A tool to make rich mofos dont look so bad
David Cruz Exactly, philanthropy is “I’ll give back to the society that gave me all of my opportunities, but only if and how I feel like it.”
And why does EA do originals? Because that's where it finds new prey to buy up and destroy... durrrrrr....
"I do not like being called a bad guy!"
Then stop being a bad guy. It is *literally* that simple.
What's wrong with being a bag guy? It's not a glamorous job, but it helps people get their shopping done faster and is a nice assist for the elderly. Anything that pays the bills.
@@Here_is_Waldo Plastic is bad for the environment, though. They don't count.
The fact that the CEO of EA sounds like a Dalek/Cyberman speaks volumes, and makes it all the more hilarious
They don’t call him Android Wilson for nothing.
LOL! I was thinking with that voice that it sounded like a Dalek underwater.
God bless you Jim, that intro was bloody brilliant!
I know right. When had dude bent over the car, I immediately thought "okay, this got dark." But that was part of the point.
EA: We support indie game makers.
EA whispers: So we can crush them and steal all the IPs.
And do NOTHING with them til they pull a Syndicate...
I love the surprise mechanic, I think he is one of the best characters you have created since jimsaw.
He’d make a good comic book super villain!
"making mistakes" is only human, but to persist in it, is corporational!
*corporate
@@YahyaFalcon I know, but i thought that making it sound closer to diabolical would have worked better
@@matsuoakatsu alright
Not to mention corporations try to have it both ways.
They want to be as inhumanly greedy and expoitative as they can get away with, but we are still supposed to see their actions as "human mistakes".
I'm sure there are some great and upstanding people working at EA. The executives and mouthpieces however, are repugnant human garbage.
Average Marvel fans: Wow, Spider-man Far From Home was great.
Jim: Man, I can't believe it took this long for Mysterio to get his own movie.
So much more ammo to use on Pitchford lmao
Lol, love the return of the surprise mechanic.
@ϟϟ White Wolf ϟϟ well it seems a lot of people do. Suprise mechanic is a fine concept. You seem mad. Are you a regular wiewer? Seems to me you are not.
*"THERE'S TOO MUCH CAR IN THIS CAR!"* And, already upvoted.
This just in: Independdent Studios that sign a publishing contract with EA are no longer Indie Studios.
**Surprised Pikachu**
They are easily manipulated and malleable instruments of PR hogwash.
However, I don't hate the player (the indie studiohead), I hate the game (EA's business practices).
EA: Digs up a part of my childhood, burns it to the ground, and then pisses on the ashes -> "why does everyone think we're bad guys?"
"mistakes", as if it's anything but premeditated; it's like a sociopath trying to gaslight someone.
"If such a person approaches you, don't listen to their lies. Unplug their hearing aid, and jam their mobility scooter immediately."
- SsethTzeentach
That guy is a comedic genius .. he says the most off he wall stuff with the most convincingly serious tone 😂😂😂
Which video is that?
@@GigglingStoners Pretty sure it's his Might and Magic 2 review
@@GigglingStoners It's in the heroes 2 review at 6:58
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I literally just discovered that guy’s channel
"Android Wilson" absolutely killed me.
Busted out myself during breakfast. Wasn't expecting that.
He sounded like if a Dalek was a corporate executive, which is probably the only you can make them worse.
@@jonathankent1517 I was waiting for him to yell out "EXTERMINATE" at one point.
@@KaKao_o that joke was too obvious even for Jim to make.
Bioware is already dead, it's just a question of how long EA will keep making the corpse dance.
The corpse of a legend, that should be put out of its misery, so we can remember Them for their good stuff
A studio is it's talent, sand Bioware has been bleeding that. If it's not dead now that's only becuse EA has rented the cheapest life support it can find.
*sadly holds torch for SimCity*
*sniffle*
RIP Maxis
"There's to much car in these car!"
-2019 Best Line
Can we get a shirt with this character and this quote?
Lord of Raisins I would buy that without a second thought
Reminds me of a Borderlands Psycho
EA: "There's too much game in this game!"
Oh Jim, don’t ever stop being you. You are the voice of so many irritated gamers; hitting the nail on the coffin every time. We love you 👍
EA: "Im the bad guy?"
Everyone: "Duh"
"philanthropy is the future of marketing, it's the way brands r going 2 win"
-Stephanie McMahon
I believe the sole purpose of the EA Originals programm is to scout potential newcomer studios for EA to swallow up and digest. So much for the “good intentions”...
He explicitly states in the interview that the reason they do it is to improve connections between EA and indie studies, so...
we don't want you going somewhere ELSE
@@chrisbuttonshaw2088 It's essentially exactly that. If they can't have them or themselves, they will exert as much control as possible. It's the equivalent of Walmart helping out small, local businesses. It's not that they wouldn't destroy them first chance, it's that if they can't do that, they'll at least control their development.
EA is quite literally the Reapers from Mass Effect.
@@Arrakiz666 so does that mean we'll be amassing armies from across the Galaxy to destroy them only to have the choice boil down to three different colored options?
@@peterb8904 Come on now, don't be silly. We're gonna have just two choices, Socialism or Fascism!
"Very friendly deals for Indie Developers"
LIke that time EA had the rights to rip off participants games buried in the contract for a showcase for indie talent... Totally not bad guys right?
holy shit i even forgot that, they have done so much shit is almost endless.
What? haven't heard of this. What did EA do to indie developers?
I know, I feel bad for the indie devs. Its like watching a bunch of characters in a horror movie go into a very obvious bad area that you know are going to get horribly butchered. Only its real life and real people who are suffering and not someone you want to see dead.
Ea:
Fires devs
Closes studios
Exploits micro transactions
Also Ea: why u hate us >:o
Edit: Also if you’re reading this Jim been here since 100k subs 👌🤜
Hopefully one day we get to the 1M! Been here really, really long, since Jim went solo
When you pinned that guy to the car for a second I thought that was going in an entirely different direction...
That is an excellent Dalek voice for EA.
I hope that sticks around.
I love you for the fact the your standard evil robot voice is basically straight forward Dalek.
ExterminAte, it's in the name.
"Andrew, have you looked at our caps?"
EA CEO: What?
"Our caps... They've got skulls on them. Are we... are we the baddies?"
Gonna go watch the 🤣
*No one:*
*Absolutely nobody:*
*Not a single soul:*
*My brain at 3 AM:* THERE'S TOO MUCH CAR IN THIS CAR
Yeah its called a car for a reason... to
Make you ask yourself if there is too much car in the car... Evil bastards... all of them
EA: man you guys, im really tired of being called the bad guy.
everyone: then stop absorbing and shutting down good studios, stop interfering with game developers vision, stop releasing full priced $60 unfinished crap loaded with predatory micro transactions.
EA: no, but really, stop calling us bad guys, we really don't understand it.
When SimCity, the always-online one, came out EA was doing a campaign to change their image. Going forward they would be a "Player-First" company.
We learn from our mistakes! We change!
Yeah that went pretty well, didn't it? Turns out that Player First was just their answer to the question "who's going to bend over and get bled by this big corporate dildo?"
The villain of the Ultima series was literally inspired by EA. They put out something about changing to be nicer somewhere every few years back then too.
EA: We made mistakes, people are wrong to call us the bad guys!
Also EA: We learned nothing from those mistakes and we keep going!
EA frequently talks of mistakes without realising they ARE the mistake.
*Persona 4: AAA edition:*
Konami: We hate this video game thing. We just want money, and gambling is where it's at.
EA: YOU'RE NOT ME!
“dog-sized spider that marches through and eats the source code.”
lol, yes plz
EA: "We can learn from our mistakes"
Continues adding gambl...."suprise mechanics".....yh
Incoming suprise legislative caused mass fenome of suprise pikachu face on EA reps faces.
EA: "We can learn from our mistakes"
buy studio> force them to do something because it is trend/profitable> game sells poorly> blame studio despite they warning this would happen since day 1> close studio
How many times this cycle happened, EA?
“There’s too much car in this car!”
Easily your best opening skit yet!
Aka "Weight reduction, bro !
"It's not a game studio giving Peter Molyneux a microphone" X-D
Best line of the video.