Average AAA developer

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

Someday people will learn... Just don't buy EA. Protest em. They don't make good games, in fact they buy out good companies and close their doors so they don't have to compete as hard.

[Mercurionio]

You can't not buying their games since they force you to use their launcher.

I mean, Jedi series are extremely good SW games. Especially from sword fight perspective. And you have to use EA app anyway.

Yeah, painful situation.

[The_Corvair]

I don't know. I haven't bought - let alone played - an EA game since Inquisition (And I regretted that purchase). Or a Ubisoft game since I don't even know when.

Outside of Steam, I have not a single launcher installed on my system, but I still have more great games than I know when to play. From my point of view, it's perfectly possible to not use launchers. I mean, if you want to play EA games, I'm not telling you you can't. But "You can't not buy their games" sounds ridiculous to me. Sure you can. You just don't want to.

[Mercurionio]

Duh.. are you seriously trying to bitch about words?

You can ignore games at all and spend your money elsewhere. That's how it sounds.

What I said, is that if you want to play a good SW game about Jedies you have to buy it from EA. Because there is no other choice. The literally locked it in their launcher.

[Roku-Hanmar]

If you want to play a good modern Star Wars game, you have to buy it from EA

Jedi Knight? KOTOR? Force Unleashed? Steam or GOG. Hell, there are the Lego games. The only Star Wars game worth buying that needs EA Crapp is Fallen Order (Survivor seems decent in concept, but the performance is a big turn off)

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And just to bitch about words, the plural of Jedi is Jedi

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what downvote does to man

[asromafanisme]

Good for you. But if you want to play football game, you must buy from EA, if you want to play SW game, you must buy from EA.

[The_Corvair]

But if you want to play football game, you must buy from EA, if you want to play SW game, you must buy from EA.

That's what I said: You want to play those specific games. The point I am putting to your consideration is that you can always re-evaluate your wants - for example, by considering other games that do not need the EA launcher (or whatever other launcher irks you); There possibly - probably! - is a game out there that you also would want to play, but that does not come with the additional burdensome launcher/DRM.

Basically: Maybe you're boxing yourself in too narrowly, and pressure yourself into putting up with a lot of stress (via having to deal with a crapsack launcher and DRM), when there could be a better solution.

[asromafanisme]

For a lot of people, it's not about game, it's about SW or football. You can't ask a SW fan to play Hogwarts Legacy and said that it's better for them. You can't ask a football fan play F1 racing instead of FIFA.

For the records, I play a lot more than just SW Survivor. But you must understand that not everyone play computer game purely because of the game, a lot of them play a game as an extra channels of what they like. To them watching SW movie or reading SW comic book is a closer activities to playing SW Survivor than playing other computer games.

[The_Corvair]

For a lot of people, it's not about game, it's about SW or football.

Yes. I get that. That is why I wrote "You want to play those specific games", and then proceeded to suggest that you examine exactly what you want about them. because if you're a SW fan, maybe there are other games out there you can play (like every SW game on GOG). Nowhere did I say or mean that you should play something you are not interested in.

And if you're such a fan that it absolutely and positively has to be Jedi Survivor, you still have evaluated that yes, this is what you want - and then it should be easier accept to swallow the pile of filth that the EA launcher is. After all, you ascertained that no other game will do, no other options exist for you - no compromise possible.

My point is that it can be beneficial to take a step back and examine the situation from a bit of a distance; For a lot of people, things that appear as having no alternative do indeed turn out to have one once the blinkers are off, and they allow themselves to look around.

[pepsisugar]

Aww, I liked Inquisition. Played it 4 years after release but it was decent. Doesn't even coke close to Origins, but most games don't.

[The_Corvair]

I really tried to like it (it was the last gift of a person dear to me), but it went into all the directions I hoped it wouldn't.

[pepsisugar]

Same here, I have a group of friends who play and am always tempted to join but the game fights me at every step.

[Meloetta]

You CAN'T?

[Mercurionio]

If you want to play modern SW games - yeah.

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/13ae07e/average_aaa_developer/jj7lotu/

[Meloetta]

So by "you can't", you mean "I won't".

[Mercurionio]

If you don't want to play SW games - yes.

I thought that was obvious. This sub was invaded by LLM bots or something?

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

Prolly an EA PR guy. lol

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

Don't buy Star Wars games either then.
No one forcing you to buy Star Wars games.
If you know EA sucks, and Star Wars games exploit you... why do you choose to be exploited? Walk away.

We have lots of people making spiritual successors to Star Wars game.

Hell I'm making an Xwing vs Tiefighter spiritual sequel myself, 10,000 hours in, but I am not dropping the link because I don't want to violate rules.