We've already seen Warner's decision to remove scamming microtransactions from their recent product (can't call it a videogame, sorry).
Now I didn't put those news here as I'm unsure what reaction will that move trigger from people who spent their mortgage money already on the milking machine - in fact the possible "pissed off" reaction from those buyers who are the very reason Warner made what they made ruining gaming for everyone else as it's profitable should go here.
So let's return to the most beloved company in this thread, EA.
First, ex Bioware Aaryn Flynn claims EA executives did not ever mandate devs to include microtransactions in games. It's audio, sorry:
https://kotaku.com/former-bioware-studio-head-talks-about-life-under-ea-1823969303
So yeah, you're hearing it right. EA is a goody two shoes company, the blame is on developers who work there and have dirty, shady and scammy tendencies. Not EA CEO, it's developers, aka coders, scripters, animators, etc, who decided to scam your arse. Workers. Shame on them, they all suck and should be fired. Let's praise CEO some more who took a pity on those rotten workers, who let them make anything they wanted to do as he has a heart of gold and is next mother Theresa.
IMO after this interview noone should accept working in the same room with this Aaryn Flynn guy ever again. Blaming hands and not head what's heard in this interview is ridiculous. If only he said it was all his decision and noone else's, I wouldn't put it here. I mean, if you want to lie, okay, it's human thing, but at least have some respect and don't make your coworkers look bad.
If you don't care about all of the audio, you may check the important parts analyzed here in YongYea video (he missed to spot that by false clearing CEO actual workers look bad):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEAArcV9aDU
Sadly it didn't stop there. After decision to put Jesus on the cross, EA wants to wash hands some more:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/star-wars-battlefront-ii/star-wars-battlefront-2-ea-apology
EA’s head of development*Patrick Söderlund regrets the now-infamous Star Wars: Battlefront II loot box controversy, saying there were decisions that “we shouldn't have made”, but that no-one intended to build a slot machine
Noone intended? I just can't believe what am I reading. It's not unplanned pregnancy case for god's sakes! Does EA really believe we're all idiots?
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Eurogamer. A site that has a problem with PC and hates PC. I don't care about their articles much of course, but I had to recheck if I'm seeing this review right, I've even put my glasses on:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-03-27-sea-of-thieves-review
Recommended. Bare bones of a MMO. Recommended. A product not a single other critic found fun to enthuse about.
I'd cut off my arms before writing recommended and suggest spending cash on such thing. Unless the publisher paid me millions to lie for them, of course. How many millions? Enough to get me a decent lifetime pension I guess because after such bullshit article I wouldn't dare to write anything else ever again.