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When has EA ever been in alignment with progressive society?
June 1st to June 30th. They highlight the lipsevice to LGBT stuff in dragon age
They’re in alignment with a sense of pride and accomplishment, I guess?
Ever since Dragon Age Origins? Their published games ever since then have been incredibly LGBT safe.
Wasn't that BioWare?
EA owns BioWare, and has since 2007. Dragon Age came out in 2009.
Still was developed by BioWare and not EA.
That's how these big companies work, they have multiple studios working on multiple games. You still expect the subsidiaries to mostly mirror the top end.
EA will just shut down a studio if they don't like what they are doing. BioWare is mostly responsible for dragon age. EA helped but not with the original game. My brother worked on that game for months, EA was basically the distributor
EA hasn't written its games even going back to the MS-DOS era. It's just a publisher.
EA has always employed warming kettle strategy. Buy an awesome and beloved independent studio, let them just keep doing awesome stuff, and then go "well, looks like you're not keeping up with our growth targets, guys, guess we need to keep a closer eye on how you're doing." And again. And again.
Published by EA, they'll allow anything that makes their investors happy and they push for that.
They put "art" in their name, thought it was enough concessions to the unproductive concept called "culture" and then they made sure to focus on compensating this benevolent act by creating as many shitty products as possible.
Historical tangent: Electronic Arts was originally supposed to be named "Electronic Artists" (as a play on United Artists, the film company). The whole reason the company was founded was because Atari and Activision made game designers anonymous cogs in the machine. EA was like "we'll actually pay solid compensations and we'll actually put your name on the cover, how's that sound?" But, of course, the founders noticed that they weren't the artists in question, the game designers were, so they changed it.