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So the part of EA that "was designed to publish games with a more hands-off approach than the mothercorp from developers not owned by themselves" is rumored to be going the way of the dodo. As someone in the comments under the article said, what they should do is just keep EA Partners and get rid of the rest of EA proper.
Personally, though, I'd prefer anything and everything associated with EA to simply be razed to the ground entirely. For those companies as part of the EA Partners thing, it would just mean them no longer being associated with EA (which would be a very good thing, if only for their reputations, at least in my eyes). That seems like what will be the case as of now, anyway, if the above rumor is true. For the rest, as I've said in the past, it would mean all of the various franchises that have been assimilated by the EA collective over the past decades would be split apart and doled out THQ-style, preferably to the original creators, but if that's not possible or likely, then at least to people willing and able to see these things done more justice than EA is currently doing them.
In any case, I just see this as the first of the fallout from this stuff, and if the rumor about the EA Partners thing ends up being true, then it looks like things are indeed getting worse, rather than better. Oh well. That's not really a surprise to me at all. It was always the more likely outcome. :/
(Coincidentally, since it was mentioned in the RPS article, I bought Kingdoms of Amalur a month or two ago during a Steam sale [without remembering/realizing at the time that EA had anything to do with it], and just started playing it over the past weekend. While I wouldn't say it's "really brilliant," it's not too bad. It's sort of like The Elder Scrolls-lite with easier, if not necessarily better, combat. The storyline has been fairly interesting and the side-quests have not been utter rubbish, at least not so far anyway, so it has that much going for it.)
Personally, though, I'd prefer anything and everything associated with EA to simply be razed to the ground entirely. For those companies as part of the EA Partners thing, it would just mean them no longer being associated with EA (which would be a very good thing, if only for their reputations, at least in my eyes). That seems like what will be the case as of now, anyway, if the above rumor is true. For the rest, as I've said in the past, it would mean all of the various franchises that have been assimilated by the EA collective over the past decades would be split apart and doled out THQ-style, preferably to the original creators, but if that's not possible or likely, then at least to people willing and able to see these things done more justice than EA is currently doing them.
In any case, I just see this as the first of the fallout from this stuff, and if the rumor about the EA Partners thing ends up being true, then it looks like things are indeed getting worse, rather than better. Oh well. That's not really a surprise to me at all. It was always the more likely outcome. :/
(Coincidentally, since it was mentioned in the RPS article, I bought Kingdoms of Amalur a month or two ago during a Steam sale [without remembering/realizing at the time that EA had anything to do with it], and just started playing it over the past weekend. While I wouldn't say it's "really brilliant," it's not too bad. It's sort of like The Elder Scrolls-lite with easier, if not necessarily better, combat. The storyline has been fairly interesting and the side-quests have not been utter rubbish, at least not so far anyway, so it has that much going for it.)
