after this, Games like NFL 2K, NFL Gameday, NFL Fever, NFL QB club and NFL Blitz could no longer exist, only Madden.
A quote form on Old Forum website when this news broke 20 years ago:
"5 more years of Glorified Roster Updates
EA is the biggest cancer to the Industry, they put out mediocre games and nobody says anything bad about them because they have the reviewers paid off
not to mention the numerous ways they find to spit in the face of people who buy form them"
It's pretty damn accurate, even 20 years later . both EA and their games have gotten worse over the last 20 years
Most bigbudget AAA games need to sell literally millions to break even, FF16 failed to meet expectations after selling millions and Spider-man 2 needed to sell 8M to break even.
even if we double and triple the numbers of chuds that are actually lost customers, its such a small fraction of the market, and lets not forget if the game comes out and is good, how many people will actually boycott a game and not just come up with somehing dumb like "its woke but done well" like they do with literally so many other games? there's very few people who actually will, on prinpcle not buy game bc a female lead is bald for example