I can’t start boycotting a company that I’ve been boycotting for well over a decade.
Carry on, sir.
Double boycott
So, repeatedly buy and return games?
Will my steam account get banned if I pre-order every one of their games, click play for 5 minutes then instantly refund? I have my faith, but I don’t know if they’d see that as abuse of their refund policy.
Why punish valve? Do that shit through origin.
I don’t want to punish my computer by installing origin.
Idk it’d be pretty cool to see steam go “sorry, your games are too unreliable and too much of a risk now.” And stop offering them. And then they’ll go out of business when the only people buying their games are the 10 people with origin installed.
Last thing I bought from them was Mass Effect (only the first one) circa 2008 I think.
Just so people know, you can ignore games by publisher in steam by searching their name in the store, clicking their page, then click the gear icon to ignore. EA who? Ubiwhat?
I’ve had EA on ignore for years (whenever they demanded we switch to Origin) and they still showed up on my front page during the last sale !
Ubishit.
We are entering the dark ages of AAA games. They are going to be shallow ugly, buggy and dumb.
Support indie devs.
They are going to be shallow ugly, buggy and dumb.
🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀🌚
Support the open source devs. Spring engine games!
Clearly the fix the AAAA games.
This is actually kind of interesting. This gamble is very likely to fail, EA could finally die, and its valuable IP sold off to companies that would actually make better use of them.
The only wrinkle in this is that Trump’s son in law owns EA now, so if it does end up failing, they’ll probably find a way to get US tax payers to bail them out.
valuable IP sold off to companies that would actually make better use of them
More likely snatched up by VC to put them on (fuck) ICE or passed around to other AI companies until they’re really good and dead.
For those that don’t know, Stability AI is already a zombie, even in the local ML community. SD3 was a flop, they shed all their devs/projects worth anything, and now with Qwen/Longcat SAI is beyond obsolete.
Apparently EA didn’t get the message. They invested in a broken, burning company who’s only decent results are free and old?
…Sounds about right.
FLUX.1 and WAN were already miles beyond Stable Diffusion a year ago. While America has been pushing capitalistic goals with LLMs, China has been releasing banger model after banger model, all as open-source.
Downside is it’s China and comes with their own biases, both with image generation and politics within its text models. Fortunately, some of that can be re-trained back to normal, but the technology is moving so fast.
Booooo EA Suuuuuuuuucks, it’s always sucked, it’s always gonna suck. As far as my purchasing power goes, this changes nothing. Rot in hell EA
if isnt already bad enough that SAUDIA arabia and kushner owns it.
oh great since humans wont be working on it there will be no reason for it to cost money right?
fuck ea I should have stop buying years ago
I have not given EA my money since Sim City. They should have died after that point, yet the lifeless beast lumbers on.
yes ea please kill off your whole company, good riddance.
What a fucking surprise.
EA is the world’s shittiest game company. Just gutter trash all the way through.
Who fucking asked for that? WHO??!!
The Saudis? 🤷♂️
They’re trying to cut costs to pay for the loans they took to make the acquisition
They all went to the same Donald Trump business school.
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Wages are very expensive.
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Fire as many people as you can.
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Shareholders see number go up.
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