Surely we can alienate one of the pickiest subgroups in the hobby full of Notoriously Picky Bitches. Nothing will go wrong. Surely.

Anyway I'm just thinking back to after I finished the first Mass Effect, went, hey that was pretty good, how was the second one? And encountered review after review saying they flattened out the RPG elements and so I didn't buy or play ME2.

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Anyway I'm just thinking back to after I finished the first Mass Effect, went, hey that was pretty good, how was the second one? And encountered review after review saying they flattened out the RPG elements and so I didn't buy or play ME2.

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Guys I'm sure ME2 was fine, my point is EA set a policy of backpedaling what made their RPGs appeal to people and as a result I didn't buy a game that didn't appeal to me.

Which, to everyone who isn't an EA CEO, is a fairly easy consequence to see coming.

@CactuarJoe sorry

@xerozohar No worries

"That devotion to their chosen genre, in EA's eyes, meant that "you didn't have to worry" about the nerds. "You didn't have to try and appeal to them. You had to worry about the people who weren't in the cave, which was the audience we actually wanted, which was much larger."

I swear they press these CEOs out of a mold somewhere with these opinions pre-installed. This is exactly what's screwing over Square Enix and a number of other companies over.

Dragon Age maestro says EA always spoke about a hypothetical 'nerd cave' full of diehard RPG fans who would "always show up," so you "didn't have to try and appeal to them"

Maybe they were right, but they shouldn't have said it

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Wild going on other social media sites and seeing people desperate to take bullets for EA about this interview.

"Well it wasn't ALL EA..."
"You can't just blame the publisher for EVERY creative choice..."
"Bioware was great under EA, tho! For a while!"

And of course a lot of "Of course they're obsessed with growing the audience, tHeY'Re iN BuSiNeSs tO mAkE mOnEy 🥴"

I always feel extra commie after reading threads like that.

Wild going on other social media sites and seeing people desperate to take bullets for EA about this interview.

"Well it wasn't ALL EA..."
"You can't just blame the publisher for EVERY creative choice..."
"Bioware was great under EA, tho! For a while!"

And of course a lot of "Of course they're obsessed with growing the audience, tHeY'Re iN BuSiNeSs tO mAkE mOnEy 🥴"