God look at those crusty ass grass textures, def not $70 material
Madden is so dumb its literally the same game with one feature taken out and one feature reintroduced every year
It’s a free market. Just don’t buy it
No yearly release should be $70.
At this his point they could start charging $100 a year for it and I wouldn’t even blame them.
people should be paid more for their work!
things shouldn’t cost slightly more money!
Gotta pick one chief.
Cut the CEOs’ pay and you’ll be able to get both
EAs CEO makes $20MM. They have 13k employees. That’s an $1100 raise, give or take, if you take every penny from the CEO. For the vast majority of their employees, that is less than a 1% raise.
So no, it won’t get you both, in any meaningful sense.
I am pretty sure we don’t need to raise every employee’s wages. Some of the upper management who sit in their offices biting nails, for example.
The point is to reduce the wage inequality inside a company.
So you want to raise the wages of the people making $140k per year but not $170k?
Why?
Where did you pull those numbers from, then?
Edit: And yes, if you are not productive, you get paid less. That’s the whole point. If you are not 100x productive, you don’t deserve to get 100x the wages of a regular employee too.
I googled median EA wages (gave me median, top 75%, etc), EA CEO pay and number of employees at EA and then did division
People do not get paid based on production but based on value.
EA chose neither.
Do you have a source on that? Because EA pays in the top 20-25% for their market.
https://www.comparably.com/companies/electronic-arts-e/salaries
Part of me wants to argue that the games industry has a long-standing history of under-compensating workers, which makes being within the top 25% not particularly impressive, but instead I’m just going to admit that you caught me ragging on EA with an easy jab.
They did lay off a shed load of workers earlier this year mere days after announcing record profits though. Still, they’re not quite the miserable black hole that they were in the ‘EA Widows’ era when they were forcing unpaid overtime on a straight up illegal level.
Let me share a secret with you: Madden (Year) is the same game as Madden (Year-1).
Wait, if I rename my Madden1.exe to Madden23.exe will I get the latest game?
… You’re gonna need to rename to madden25.exe
Thanks. I feel like, I just saved 70$.
“SportGame (Year-1) is literally unplayable because my favorite player is no longer in Team X.”
– Every sport sim players
PS3 NCAA 14 blows next gen Madden out of the water. It’s not even close.
Typically yeah but this year is actually the first time PC is getting the next gen version ps5/xs have had since 21
For like 20 years y’all have been buying the game, year after year, even if it’s not worth it.
Football video games were such a big part of my childhood in the 80s and 90s, but football video games died the day NFL2K died.
See also: Pokémon.
I’ve always been bothered by the lack of competition (and anti-competitive behavior) in the football space.
Madden is worth whatever people are willing to pay for it.
I’m reliably informed by people who really hate Overwatch that thinking like this makes you a chump for capitalism who is ruining the industry.
Capitalism works. There are markets who will pay for these and that’s why they are made. That’s what capitalism is.
If not for capitalism, these games wouldn’t even exist.
Now, the issue I think you’re worried about is that people begrudgingly pay for the game when they don’t really want to. Or pay more than they want to for it.
That’s not capitalism, that’s FOMO.
People make a ton of shit everyday that I don’t buy. But obviously someone is out there paying for this shit, or it wouldn’t be being made.
What do I care, or what do you care about it enough to even address?
If people don’t buy it, it either gets cheaper or it’s not made at all. So just don’t buy it. I haven’t bought a sports game in 20 years because of this. But they keep making them and people keep complaining about them.
Complain about yourselves, it’s not capitalism, it’s the consumers.
Uh, I thought I was being pretty clear that I wasn’t the crazed anticapitalist, but I guess Poe’s Law.
And yet for years sports fans have enjoyed themselves.
Christ you fuckers are pushy.
IT’S NOT FOR YOU. GET OVER IT.
Elitist twat.
Lolol YOU’RE (royal) the one constantly telling Madden fans how dumb they are. 🤷♂️
The fuck are you talking about, they do that themselves.
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Yeah I have a version of Madden from 2015 that works perfectly fine and seems to be more or less the same game, have been very happy with it. I refuse to pay $70 for a game that I know is riddled with microtransactions for really… nothing else changing
I am curious as to why you say the game riddled with microtransactions? The only microtransactions I have ever seen is the card pack shit and that is incredibly easy to not pay for by just playing the other 95% of gameplay features they offer in the game that are completely free of microtransactions.
Same for FIFA. Or EAFC.
Sport games should be sold as game as service rather than yearly releases.
Why? They’re probably making way more money this way anyways.
I wonder if they’d have a hard time selling a service that doesn’t include the micro-transactions.
Relying on only seasonal subscriptions is not enough. They have to sell something else és well to keep up.
those of us that actually play the game
Are these still cut down releases based on last-gen console versions? That seems to be the historical trend with EA PC ports.
But even if not, that price is still high.
They know that people are going to pay for it. For exactly the same reason I haven’t bought a Formula 1 game in a few years. Every year it’s just not quite worth the 60-70 euro’s for me. I’m not even that mad about the 70 euro price tag if I get something nice for it in return, everything has gotten more expensive and games have been 60 euro since forever, but last year’s game with some small changes is not going to cut it for that price.