EA disses single player games and developers are right to be upset
Electronic Arts has attracted a lot of attention in recent years with microtransactions and loot boxes, among other things.
Electronic Arts posted a meme on Twitter and it pretty much backfired. The dig at single-player games is not only well received by fans, but also by many developers. Mainly because the publisher is of course also home to some studios that develop single-player titles and, unsurprisingly, feel alienated by the action.
EA is heating up the old debate about single and multiplayer titles with Meme
What’s the matter? You may have encountered the meme format on social media where a person is described as “a 10” (out of 10), but then a flaw is identified that pretty much kills the whole package. Aside from the fact that this kind of joke isn’t particularly funny anyway, publisher Electronic Arts has really got themselves into trouble with their own twist.
This is what EA wrote: EA uses the meme format with a gender-neutral pronoun and criticizes that the person described would only like single-player games. As a result, single-player titles are presented as something negative – to the great astonishment of many fans and developers.
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Ironically EA: The reactions speak volumes
Electronic Arts apparently wanted to be funny and use a current joke pattern. But that backfired. Mainly because it is of course extremely nonsensical to play off single-player versus multi-player titles. Neither is somehow better than the other, it’s just a matter of taste.
Many angry and puzzled reactions: Of course, the tweet gets a lot of irritated fans of single-player games on the scene.
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Indie publisher Annapurna thinks it probably would have been better to have left this tweet in the drafts:
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EA developers wonder: The whole thing seems particularly strange because under the umbrella of EA, single-player games are also developed. Especially after the success of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which as a pure single-player title has ensured that Electronic Arts is increasingly focusing on such games again.
With Star Wars Jedi: Survivor there will even be a sequel. After the tweet, its developers are visibly surprised as to whether their publisher even knows what their development studios are doing.
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The remaster of the legendary single player trilogy, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, was an absolute success for EA. Also Dragon Age 4 is supposed to be a pure single-player game again and is being created by EA. What do we think of the success of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and the resounding failure of the multiplayer experiment anthem owe:
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Thanks to Jedi Fallen Order & Anthem, Dragon Age 4 can become a pure single-player RPG
But EA didn’t just fail to make friends with Anthem. The microtransactions in the FIFA series are also repeatedly criticized. The same goes for other multiplayer titles of the past, like the massive loot box disaster in Star Wars Battlefront 2. The fact that Battlefield 2042 was going to be a pure multiplayer title didn’t exactly help with its success either. Accordingly, there are many reactions that are likely to target these issues.
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This tweet by Jason Schreier, which picks up the joke and criticizes that every date costs money, takes a similar line:
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EA backtracks: In the meantime, EA has posted a tweet in which the publisher writes that playing single-player titles would actually make a person an 11.
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The publisher himself explains that EA deserves the roast with all the reactions to the original tweet. The only question that remains is why this barrel had to be opened at all. Let’s just hope that Electronic Arts will continue to release both multiplayer and single player games worthy of our time in the future.
What do you prefer to play: single player or multiplayer games?
Reference-www.gamepro.de
