For Once, You’ve Got To Hand It To EA
EAis an easy company to hate. Its wholesale pivot to live-service games is marked by loot box mechanics and shady practices across the board to coax as many pennies out of its audience as possible. It’s a big bad corporation that loves money and hates its players, as evidenced by any update to a game that players don’t like. EA isn’t great. I think loot boxes actively hurt the medium, and the company’s track record for laying off staff this year alone is one of the worst in a bad industry....