Mrs. Sawyer
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Well it's not really EA making these games. They are great games sure but it's not like EA injected their talent into DICE and Bioware and that's why those games are great. The talented guys at those studios who were great before are the ones who are continuing to make them great and EA can't risk upsetting them or that figure they paid for the acquisitions will be just a purchase of a brand. It's noticeable for someone like me who has unfortunately followed EA from their earliest games how the games by these purchased studios are not affected by the normal anti-consumer EA policies.
And FIFA finally became a half decent game in about 2009, after about 14 annual releases of crap that I played through. If a top studio was allowed to get all those football licenses away from EA these games would be amazing by now. Ex EA employees have admitted in the past that they were told to purposefully not make FIFA too good so that they could release every year with just some small but noticeable improvements. If they improved too much one year then the next year's release would struggle.
I was talking about them as a publisher. I don't think EA develops any of their games. I'm not trying to say that EA is the reason that it's good, but I'm trying to say that great games have been released with an EA logo on them.
I honestly didn't play Fifa until Fifa 09, which coincidentally was when they started getting good. Still, I don't think that's a secret with any sports game, whether it be EA or 2K. They certainly do hold back every year because they have to keep the series alive. If you put it all in one copy, what's there left to improve next year? Sometimes, they do and that's why the next game has minimal improvement.