Wow thats rough. You think artists, programmers, level designers, animators, has a word to say in the crappy business decisions?
Not a whole lot. Sure they could work for "indies", their wage and jobs stability would be WAY smaller. Which would drive not a lot of people to want to pursue that carreer.
Learn that Executives/Corporate decision is not the same as the ground people doing the work.
Same as a McDonald employe is doing the shitty burger you ordered, not his fault if the ingredients sucks. (Except if he spit on it of course )
By your arguments, any person working for a corporation/business (which goal is to make money) is thus guilty of being greedy. I dunno what you do in life, but you are aware that any person working for a corporation (according to your points) are thus "bad" people.
That doesn't give a lot of possible work areas in a Capitalist world.
That I can get behind and agree on
Sauce for any of that? Capital Markets doesn't seem to have any direct ties to EA, and from the investor PoV he's still fucking right. Games are ludicrously cheap for the entertainment value many hold, and you can bet your ass that investors are jumping at the chance to further monetize gamers in any way possible.
I find it weird that prices are still so high. Sellers are even trying to put them in copys with conzoles and there are still negative rewievs.
Don't sweat the details!!!
Of course. It's a business. But you usually make more money with happy and loyal customers.
EA has very little to gain from selling you subpar products.
Battlefield 4, as an example was released in a rather poor state but after listening and working with players the game was made into something really great.
EA is not out to get you, I can promise you that.
Again, that's his job as an analyst. He's looking out for his investors, who are in turn looking to turn a profit, they don't give a fuck about the same shit consumers do.
The righteous indignation that market analysts would side with companies over players when it comes to revenue is silly, of course they're going to. They'd be terrible analysts if they weren't advocating for this shit. As far as I can tell all that page indicates are the analysts that cover EA.
Stop being so reactionary and "freaking out" over normal, trivial shit.
"Monopoly", no they have the exclusive license. That's frequently how licensing works for major brands, they can get an exclusive partner who will consistently use the property to make a ton of money. The other end being Warhammer, which Games Workshop licenses to pretty much anyone, apparently.
It's the nature of licensing agreements and it won't change, unless you want to advocate that companies not have actual control over their properties.