Comments on: Electronic Arts posts third-quarter loss http://games.techwhack.com/2227-electronic-arts-7 Videogaming News and Reviews Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:58:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Matt http://games.techwhack.com/2227-electronic-arts-7/comment-page-1#comment-66837 Matt Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:46:42 +0000 http://games.techwhack.com/?p=2227#comment-66837 EA has a lousy business model: Buy a good property, or one-off on their own, make a game people like to play (so far so good), but then: 1) break it into a multi-year cycle of "upgrades" (turning the early releases into down-grades) 2) load it with invasive, disruptive, and sometimes destructive DRM Gamers have high-standards and we won't buy what EA tells us we should want. Who's right - EA or their audience? EA has a lousy business model:

Buy a good property, or one-off on their own, make a game people like to play (so far so good), but then:
1) break it into a multi-year cycle of “upgrades” (turning the early releases into down-grades)
2) load it with invasive, disruptive, and sometimes destructive DRM

Gamers have high-standards and we won’t buy what EA tells us we should want.

Who’s right – EA or their audience?

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