What's up with EA marketing?

I think more than just the marketing at EA deserves to be fired. Video games in general would improve vastly if EA were to go bankrupt right now and all their senior designers had to go take entry level jobs at more creative developers.

EA and Ubisoft both. They are so cheesy that they announced earlier this year they intend to concentrate on sequels and sports games for the next year. In other words, they're gonna concentrate on not making anything new whatsoever, because they're too damn cheap to pay anyone to come up with new ideas. They just want the quick buck from selling people games they've already played, packaged as a "must have sequel."

Even their half-decent Fight Night 4 is a sequel of a sequel of a sequel. Imagine if they'd applied that fine fighting/replay engine to a new idea instead of an old series.

I am an old-timer, I can remember when EA first made it big on the Commodore 64. Back then, they had some cool games like Skyfox, Mail Order Monsters, and a lot of other stuff that was real different from the shoot-em-up standards of that decade. And they made some fine flight sims for pc too. Their main competitor was Epyx, maker of the legendary Summer Games olympics series. Epyx disappeared and EA hit it big, they lost that small-company creativity in the early 90's. They'll never get it back, they deserve bankrupcy.

When a company does this kind of marketing, it usually means they don't have a lot of confidence in the game. If EA had a solid game to sell, they'd likely concentrate on that instead of silly publicity stunts.

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