• The dogspaw
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    172 years ago

    Madden is so dumb its literally the same game with one feature taken out and one feature reintroduced every year

  • @SCB@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    people should be paid more for their work!

    things shouldn’t cost slightly more money!

    Gotta pick one chief.

      • @SCB@lemmy.world
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        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.

        • @orangeboats@lemmy.world
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          32 years ago

          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.

          • @SCB@lemmy.world
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            32 years ago

            So you want to raise the wages of the people making $140k per year but not $170k?

            Why?

            • @orangeboats@lemmy.world
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              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.

              • @SCB@lemmy.world
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                I googled median EA wages (gave me median, top 75%, etc), EA CEO pay and number of employees at EA and then did division

        • @Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          22 years ago

          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.

  • Amilo159
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    382 years ago

    Let me share a secret with you: Madden (Year) is the same game as Madden (Year-1).

  • @kemsat@lemmy.world
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    292 years ago

    For like 20 years y’all have been buying the game, year after year, even if it’s not worth it.

    • @legion@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      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.

    • @Ashtear@lemm.ee
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      22 years ago

      See also: Pokémon.

      I’ve always been bothered by the lack of competition (and anti-competitive behavior) in the football space.

    • Pxtl
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      52 years ago

      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.

      • @Strangle@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        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.

        • Pxtl
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          22 years ago

          Uh, I thought I was being pretty clear that I wasn’t the crazed anticapitalist, but I guess Poe’s Law.

  • Scrubbles
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    32 years ago

    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

    • Detective Kakuna
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      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.

    • Corroded
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      142 years ago

      I wonder if they’d have a hard time selling a service that doesn’t include the micro-transactions.

  • Corroded
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    Just take your John Madden Football Sega Genesis ROM and use this tool to update the roster yourself. Who’d be able to tell the difference?

  • @vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    32 years ago

    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.

  • @gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    142 years ago

    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.