EA re-release The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 on PC as DLC-stuffed Legacy editions
As rumoured, The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 have returned to (official) PC stores. Kindly Uncle EA has taken a break from hi…
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Why waste money on employees for a new Dragon Age game, when you can just repackage the old shit?
How are these things even related?
EA just laid off a bunch of BioWare employees.
I'm well aware. How does them re-releasing older games make this worse?
The rerelease was the absolute bare minimum. Not a remaster or any updates of offensive text etc. it required the bare minimum effort on their part and they are gonna be raking in money that they could have put towards keeping people employed and making a new game, but they'll just pocket it and continue to coast off of nostalgia and name recognition. I don't know the specifics of the layoffs, so maybe they were truly necessary, but generally there's backlash to layoffs, and knowing that they are obviously not going to be hurting economically probably doesn't ease the backlash. I have no real opinion on it, other than corpos bad, just providing context.
As an Ex BioWare and EA employee of 13 years, I can certainly tell you, Maxis and BioWare are separate studios with separate decisions. EA does own them but the decision is not related. I can say, however, EA sets the bar way too damn high. I'm just waiting for it to bite them in the ass. I feel like it's already started.