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American McGee says they were "emotionally quite destroyed" by EA canceling Alice Asylum, and now they can't touch the IP "for the rest of [their] life (www.gamesradar.com)
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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 137 points 9 months ago

If you want, creative independence, then don’t merge with a mega corporation.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 91 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The original was released by EA over 20 years ago. It's not like its something they bought up.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago

You said this so much more diplomatically than I was going to.

[-] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 9 months ago

Oh you must know my friend Johnny Silverhand too.

[-] Dangdoggo@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

EA was hardly a mega corp when they published the first game though. Where is Taylor Swift when you need her?

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

What? EA has been a mega corp in the game industry since forever.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 16 points 9 months ago

This prompted me to look into their history, and yeah, looks like they were basically a super-group formed out of employees from names like Apple and Atari and were big right out of the gate.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

I was mainly just thinking how EA Sports games have been a thing for as long as I can remember. Even when video games was a small industry, they were still a big fish.

[-] km3k@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

The EA has been a gaming mega corp for at least 30 years.

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