{"id":6175,"date":"2025-05-01T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:21:57","slug":"games-inbox-is-ea-in-danger-of-going-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/games-inbox-is-ea-in-danger-of-going-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Is EA in danger of going under?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is anyone safe in the current games industry? (EA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Thursday letters page hopes Persona 6 is like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a>, as one reader predicts a Resident Evil<\/a> 9 reveal at Summer Game Fest.<\/p>\n

To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dead end<\/strong>
I really don\u2019t know what the endgame is for the games industry, with these constant job cuts. 700 from EA<\/a> last year, 400 now<\/a>, who\u2019s going to be left to make their games? All the people with the skill and experience will have long ago left or been kicked out.<\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s hard in tech in general at the moment, but I thought video games<\/a> were supposed to be art? You don\u2019t find the sort of technically minded artists you need to make a video game hanging around the average job centre. All this knowledge and skills is being lost, possibly never to return.<\/p>\n

I really worry that EA is going to go under. Not that I have any love for EA, given how few of their games I buy, but it\u2019s another cornerstone of gaming that is suddenly looking very unsteady.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to be too defeatist, but I really feel like gaming has got itself into such a rut that it\u2019s not going to get. In the future gaming will just be Fortnite and the dozen or so other live service games that never seem to die (minus Apex Legends) and that\u2019ll be it. Everyone else will just be indie games.
Ansel<\/strong><\/p>\n

The moneymakers<\/strong>
It\u2019s a real bummer that they may have almost got Titanfall 3<\/a> finished and then EA canned it anyway. I know we don\u2019t know that\u2019s what happened for sure, but that sort of thing happens sometimes with movies, and I get the feeling it does with games as well.<\/p>\n

It goes to show you though, that when we\u2019re all complaining about boring mass market games like EA Sports FC and Call Of Duty, they are breadwinners for these companies. Like Assassin\u2019s Creed for Ubisoft. It doesn\u2019t make any difference for Activision, who don\u2019t make any other games, but EA does, a bit, and it\u2019s completely in character that they\u2019d immediately stop as soon as things get dicey.<\/p>\n

So I hope EA Sports FC 25 does sell, or otherwise we won\u2019t get any more Split Fiction style games or Star Wars titles.
Carton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bottom of the barrel<\/strong>
I am struggling to think of a Zelda spin-off that would be less desirable than Hyrule Warriors 3. Maybe it sells in Japan but it doesn\u2019t seem to in the West, so I really cannot understand it. Maybe they thought it was a way to compensate for people wanting to play as Zelda? I hate to say it, but they wanted to play as her in a Zelda game (and now can) not in a Dynasty Warriors spin-off.<\/p>\n

I would\u2019ve taken literally any remaster or remake over this, or any kind of spin-off you can name. Link\u2019s Crossbow Training 2 would\u2019ve been more appealing than this. Same goes for Kirby: Air Riders. Both choices are so bizarre and feel more like Nintendo lost a bet with someone than a sensible choice for a launch window game for their new console.
Loanstar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paying the rent<\/strong>
Call me crazy but is being able to use two copies of a game at the same time<\/a> online not a bit entitled? I mean\u2026 why should you be allowed to do that? It never even occurred to me to even try. Why stop at two copies, why not three or four or infinite?<\/p>\n

We all want free stuff but where does it end? Not every company is Microsoft or Amazon, some of them have to earn money to keep going and video games is all Nintendo does.<\/p>\n

Not that I\u2019m not saying their games are expensive, but I think we should save that complaint for when we see what PlayStation 6 games are going to cost. Because I\u2019m willing to bet they won\u2019t have dynamic pricing, depending on what the game is.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it, everything is too expensive at the moment, but I can\u2019t honestly say that Nintendo is ripping us off. Not unless Mario Kart World turns out to be awful, which it\u2019s obviously not going to.
Benson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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