No surprise there. For corpos, paying off irrate parties is always cheaper than fixing and improving their security.
And I think it's a common flaw with humans to just ignore a problem and hope it goes away.
No surprise there. For corpos, paying off irrate parties is always cheaper than fixing and improving their security.
1-2 people working on a multiplayer AAA game is absolutely abandoned.
Respawn has 315 employees. They wouldn't have only 1-2 people working on a project that they deemed of any importance whatsoever.
They don't.
They are only working on it because they re being forced too
Hackers are what made the first Titanfall unplayable. If they basically make Apex unplayable then EA and Resapwn are hurting. Esecially the later since this is a money makerCorrection: they aren't working on it, and I don't believe they see it as them being forced too.
If they felt they were being forced to work on it, there would be more like at least 5-10 people so that they could get actual work done.
Electronic Arts suffered a hack not too long ago.
EA hacked: Battlefield 2042 maker hit by huge data breach
Hackers breach EA corporate network, steal source codewww.techradar.com
The hackers claim they were able to steal the source code for FIFA 21 as well as for the Frostbite engine that powers numerous games for EA ranging from the Madden to Battlefield franchises as well as Software Development Kits and other proprietary software.
PC Gamer said:"FIFA is bullish and optimistic about its long-term future in gaming and esports following a comprehensive and strategic assessment of the gaming and interactive entertainment market," reads FIFA's statement, before getting in a quick dig at former partner EA: "it is clear that this needs to be a space that is occupied by more than one party controlling all rights."
FIFA would want money.
EA was making it a money maker.
Most others will do horrobly
Who are they going to get to replace EA?
This would be good news for Konami if their games weren't worse.
But if Konami pulls it's shit together and isn't stupid, they could actually achieve market domination before FIFA could bring something to market.
Of course, since it requires competence in the sphere of gaming, Konami is doomed already.
I don't think there are any winners in this scenario, except Konami, and possibly whoever gets the contract from FIFA to make the game. I don't think EA or FIFA win from parting ways.
BIG NEWS!!!
EA is creating a new FIRST PERSON SHOOTER games studio with one of the Halo co-founders. As we all know, Electronic Arts has had a complete LACK of Games Studios that it acquired in its past to develop action games besides Danger Close Games, EA Jawbreaker, EA Black Box, Kesmai, Mythic Entertainment, Pandemic Studios, Bioware Montreal, Bioware San Francisco, Visceral Games, and DICE Los Angeles... Rest in Peace all.
But this new studio, which doesn't have a name yet, will be based in Seattle and headed by Bungie veteran Marcus Lehto, who since he left Bungie, founded his own game studio called V1 Interactive... which itself failed after the shooter they developed didn't sell.
EA is launching a new FPS studio with Halo’s co-creator | VGC
Marcus Lehto previously created Disintegration before his indie studio…www.videogameschronicle.com
Get excited boys (and girls I guess)!!!
Eh, remember that it isn't the single-player that sells, it's multiplayer, and Apex is paying for itself like hotcakes, although the current hacking problem is seriously harming sales. The data we get for games, in general, is rather telling in how little people actually play single-player. All those single-player achievements? Relatively small percentages of people actually get them.... Still no word on Titanfall 3? Guess EA truly does not care about it.