EA going belly up would be a good thing. Not because I dislike EA, but it's business practices aren't healthy. It's not just EA it's all the developer studios that rely on EA.
For a gamer it's great that tiny companies can get HUGE funding to make some great games. The problem is that these small companies don't have the money to make these games themselves. So what's the problem? A successful game get's sequels. Typically the sequels will "get better" but often sales/profits will start to go down hill. The studio that may be creative get's stuck developing that game alone. Eventually leading to internal death of the company. Leaving the company only trudging along with their Reputation holding them. Companies like EA cause this via buying them out for their IP. Happens over and over and it should be noted. because of this development style of relient on funding the next flop will near shut them down. The studio goes under.
These aren't isolated cases of EA cutting manpower, studios closing, higher costs of games. They are interlinked with each. It's a rotten core.
So what would happen if EA closed it's door. All those studios under them would need to find innovative ways to make good games that won't bankrupt them. Ea would be gone, but some other companies will fill the vacuum. Life and gaming would go on.
Much like an old forest. A greater stronger forest will grow from the nutrients of the trees before it. The gaming industry is no different. Let the old rotting forest burn so that it can feed a greater stronger forest.
Either EA needs a upheaval from inside. Historicly unlikely or it needs to go belly up.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
