EA
Via WhosUrBuddha
America: where you get to go into massive debt just to pay off your medical treatments that you didn't ask for.
EA has come under fire yet again in the gaming community for doing what they do best - scamming their customers.
On June 19th Kerry Hopkins, a vice president at EA, told a UK Parliament committee at a hearing that she has no moral reservations about the gaming company's use of "Loot Boxes," which are products within full-price games that players can purchase for upgrades of different sorts. Loot boxes have even been banned in several countries on the grounds that they constitute as gambling.
Hopkins instead clarified that she prefers to call the Loot Boxes "Surprise Mechanics," which many have been mocking for resembling the absurd logic exemplified in the memes below.
We love The Sims for its total absurdity and the weird sh*t you can make your characters do. Even if you don't play The Sims and have no interest in ever playing, you can definitely find humor in these memes - they'll make you wonder what the eff is going on in this bizarre game...
EA's reputation as greedy gaming overlords has been alive and well for quite some time - they even won the 2012 award for Worst Company In America. Their penchant for sucking money out of customers has gotten to the point where there's now a series of very low-effort, but relatively amusing memes calling them out. When we say low-effort we mean low-effort: People are literally just photoshopping the "ea" in various words and slapping a price tag on an image. Some are better than others, but they all speak the goddamn truth.
Via NeoGAF
Yesterday, EA's CFO casually confirmed dates for Titanfall 2, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and the next Battlefield during the Media & Telecom Conference at Morgan Stanley Technology. Here's what he said, transcribed by NeoGAFfer salromano:
We've got a great year ahead... we've got our Battlefield first-person shooter game coming in the third quarter, and our third-party title that Respawn, our partner, built, it's called TItanfall, it's the second title that they brought into that brand. Both of those are first-person shooters and will be targeted around the fast, action-driven shooter market, as well as the strategy-driven market in that quarter... We have our Mirror's Edge runner game this first quarter, and then we have Mass Effect, which is a sci-fi action game, in our fourth quarter. So big year ahead and we're pretty excited.
The quarterly date ranges he mentions are fiscal year (EA's fiscal year starts in April), so they roughly translate to an October-December release for Battlefield and Titanfall 2, and an early 2017 release for Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Meanwhile, GameStop is advertising Titanfall 2 in store, so either they know something we don't, or they're getting a little too excited.
