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Electronic Arts (also known as EA Games, or just EA) is an American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games headquartered in Redwood City, California. It was founded and incorporated by Trip Hawkins in 1982.
List of franchises[]
- Battlefield series
- Burnout series
- Command & Conquer series (aquired from Westwood Studios)
- Crysis series
- Dead Space series
- Dragon Age series
- FIFA series
- Fight Night series
- Harry Potter series
- Madden NFL series
- Mass Effect series
- Medal of Honor series
- NBA Live series
- NCAA Football series
- Need for Speed series
- NHL series
- Rock Band series
- SimCity series
- The Simpsons series
- The Sims series
- Skate series
- SSX series
- Star Wars series
- Titanfall
Criticism[]
There are many things EA were criticized for.
Decline of Quality in games[]
What seems to happen with some of EA's later games, is that EA gets an idea for a game, but then enforces strict deadlines, fires some of the employees working on the game, and then makes deadlines harsher, while removing content, thus, the game gets launched after development is done. A main criticism of this, is that EA ends up releasing games with little to no content in the game, or features removed, and then either re-added in a future update, or sold as DLC/Part of an expansion pack. Which resulted in massive negative feedback from some fans of some franchises.
Treatment of Employees/Labour Pratices[]
As mentioned above, EA sometimes tends to set strict deadlines for game releases. Although this can lead to employees getting overworked. EA was especially critisized for this in 2004, when employees worked up to 100 hours a week. "From 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM", not just at crunch times with releases of products.