Editing EA (section)

==So, what's the direct relevance to /tg/?==

Not much directly, but if you're interested in the business end of tabletop gaming (i.e. why individual game lines or publishers succeed or fail), the EA graveyard is quite edifying to anybody interested in just about any badly run entertainment business (a set to which [[TSR]], [[Games Workshop]], [[FASA]], and [[Wizards of the Coast]] '''arguably''' all belong or belonged), for two simple reasons: (1) You can learn more from a failure than a success, and nobody's failed their fans in more ways than EA, and (2) EA makes a good reference bar for "Asshole" "Evil" and/or "Stupid", depending on context.

To provide an example of the latter: Games Workshop has probably only cleared the "Stupid" bar compared to EA; they've been fairly good about not sitting on the IP itself ([[Shadow War: Armageddon|though various games within said IP may vary]]), and while their product is overpriced, GW's failings have been sufficiently consistent with releases to not quite qualify as "Evil" or "Assholish". Even at their worst, they've never sunk to the lows EA so readily sinks to just to milk out a little more money from the customer in the form of randomized lootboxes and digital transactions needed to play a game properly. More to the point, <s>GW actually learned from their mistakes and went a lot more forward-facing with community interaction and a much more consistent release schedule by 2017-18.</s> <s>[[Games Workshop#Back_on_the_Old_Shit|Goddammit GW, can you not stop generating more skubstorms than the bloody Eye of Terror?]]</s> Welp!, [[Wizards of the Coast]] somehow fucked up even worse!

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