Whats up with the big game companies like EA? It's easy

Pure spectacle with no substance generally ensures the most day-one sales from the lowest common denominator

TL:DR Stupid games to fool stupid people.

>>380225241
The same problem as Rockstar or any other modern day western studio. They will throw money at small studios, in an attempt to buy IPs and patents, but they spend very little on actual game production.

>>380227061
What OP is saying is that formula doesn't work anymore. EA was labeled the worst company in America, several years in a row.

>>380225241

>Make good games
>Sell games
>Why aren't they getting this?

Because for the last three gens, that's not how it has worked. Make a good game? It sells 500,000 copies. Rush out a shitty game, but give it a huge marketing budget and hype it with movie style trailers? It sells 5 million copies.

Occasionally you get a game that has both hype and solid development. But most of those are Japanese.

They're huge companies, so they're naturally risk averse and you run into the problem of too many cooks in the kitchen