4. Some Of Their Games Are Actually Pretty Good
As much as we wouldnt like to admit it, EA publish some of the most enjoyable game franchises on the market. Shooters Battlefield and Crysis are products from this corporate giant and, while they do partake in a fair amount of copy and paste from CoD titles, almost any gamer would tell you theyre both far superior to their Activision counterpart in terms of story, gameplay, and even online multiplayer (though obviously this varies on a game-by-game basis). But EA dont just pump out dreary shooters (despite what their improvements to Fuse might suggest), as A-list famous racing series Burnout is also one of their publishees, showing sticking with the crowd isnt always the mega-corps motif. Burnout is regarded by many as the most accommodating racer on the market, with people who often find the genre unbearable able to learn the tricks fairly quickly and finish somewhere other than last place. Giving players multiple level styles including standard races, destruction tracks where the challenge is to wreck as many other cars as possible, and stunt tracks; the games tend to cater to everyones desired tastes, a technique that rarely works (e.g. Resident Evil 6) and yet made this series unquestionably brilliant. In line with this, strategy giant Command and Conquer is another one of EAs sprogs, showing the publisher is capable of diversity when it tries. Unfortunately, the franchise has rarely been ported to consoles of late, so perhaps they do have a rather unfounded lack of faith in the title, yet their continual production of the series in this age where (failing) AAAs dominate the market is surely a point in their favour. And yes, most of these games are of a high quality because of their individual developers rather than EA themselves, so essentially were just praising them for not interfering and trying to make more CoD clones, but the fact that EA didnt interfere shows they have at least a little respect for developers and perhaps own a smidgen of business sense. Saying that, I wouldnt be surprised if EA end up exclusively commissioning shooters two years from now, but we cant criticise a company for something it hasnt done yet, so lets just screw our eyes shut and tell ourselves everythings going to be alright.