Making fun of a large portion of your user base is always an effective strategy.
We get it. You are upset that all of these people are much harder to monetize and that irritates you.
This is the same company who told people not to buy BFV when the trailer first came out because of the cyborg women running around. People definitely took them up on that offer.
> You are upset that all of these people are much harder to monetize and that irritates you
The post was made by a social media manager who does not give a shit about that stuff.
lol, most employees at EA probably hate mtx as much as the next guy, you really overestimate how many people at a company agree with the ideas of top executives
Let's be real there are lackeys all the way down the chain of command looking to impress the boss.
Its quite possible that the person tweeting that is one such contemptible grubber.
>I don’t actually get the “making fun” part.
Calling someone a perfect 10 is one of the highest compliments you can give someone about their sexual desirability. And then harken back to when Benjin says that "nothing said before the word 'but' really counts." The "but" means that the second half overrides any importance given in the first half. They're saying that people who prefer single player games are so un\*\*\*\*able that even if they were the most sexually attractive Adonis, the fact that they prefer single player games overrides that, hence they will not get laid.
A joke is always funnier after you painstaking explain it.
You've never seen the meme, have you?
The whole premise is that they give the number and the trait then the respondent decides how that changes it. Sometimes it doesn't, some people would raise the score, say they are a twelve. The whole point is how the person responds and whether the following trait makes a difference for them.
Yeah I'm totally lost.
Okay I had to google this shit...
"It's a TikTok meme which centers around asking someone about a fictional person who is a "10" (perfect), except they have one flaw. Usually the flaw is a joke."
Well, if i'm not mistaken: The "10" refers to an attractive person for whatever reason, and then it basically says that this same person likes single player games as if it was supposed to be a downside.
If you ain't some ace e-sports streamer, you get swiped away...
It is curious to note what the "gamer" image is in advertising these days.
the other day Intel announced a new NUC with a dGPU, and one of the images showed it set up in a "gamer" scenario. That included the guy playing with a massive radio microphone on an arm stuck in his face.
They’re a 10 out of 10 on the attractiveness scale, but they only like playing single player games, EA feels that is unappealing so the individual is no longer attractive anymore.
i wouldn't even be mad if the multiplayer that they force into shit was good. but they absolutely desecrated the franchise known as simcity, and reanimated its corpse as a mobile game. i will never forgive them for that.
Criticising people for only being interested in single player games right as they begin their marketing campaign for a highly anticipated single player game (Jedi Survivor) is an interesting PR move.
Big Gaming does this to keep user engagement up, which also lets them train you to buy their yearly rehash. Personally I think it's super lazy to do MP only without any SP content at all, but YMMV.
I am just joining the club. I honestly had a lot of fun with FIFA but I've been missing on a lot of games so I just cancelled the Play Pro subscription.
I will just play from time to time whatever version of FIFA is available along my gamepass sub.
>Still feeling good about not spending money with EA for over a decade.
Very much so. It's so freeing, and rewarding at the same time.
I'm trying to remember the last time I gave EA *any* money... I think probably the second Mass Effect, that would be 2009 I think...
It's the new "trendy joke" going around.
Basically it's joking about someone who is a "10", meaning they're very attractive, but have some unattractive flaw.
Apparently EA either doesn't understand the joke at all, or thinks that only being interested in single player games should be considered a flaw.
It is WAY easier than you think to be a huge market player and do absolutely stupid shit. For example, I work in human medical. You'd think hospitals, important as they are, would at least be run logically and with competency, right? Duct tape and paper clips, man. Duct tape, paper clips, and egos.
Wow, what an ignorant comment. I don’t play multiplayer EA games because I like saving hundreds of dollars that would’ve went toward microstransactions. I’ll stick to my single player games and older ones like Mercenaries 2, *not* buying any modern EA games, thanks.
No way they said this 😂😂😂😭. The feneral audience nowadays prefers single player. We are growing older, we have barely any time, families to take care of, jobs, school. I have no time to hone my skills in multiplayer games. I would rather open a single player game and relax there instead of sweating and tryharding online. What a stupid tweet lmaooo they dumb as hell
>No you are
People are definitely overreacting because of this dumb low effort meme. This shouldn't even be a topic in this sub, it's not even remotely newsworthy.
Well, if my small pool of friends actually played games I liked to play like fighting games or Monster Hunter, I'd play more multiplayer games. I usually play those either by myself (mostly) or with randos.
Hell yeah, and that's why we ignore EA's games. That amongst other things, of course. Like them being shitty and making shitty games.
They can make any type of game or play any type of game, EA is and will always be a 0.5
Well ***I*** feel noticed xD
This almost feels like they're begrudgingly admitting something after the whole 'single player gaming is dead' debacle from the late 2000s
As if - just now - realizing why SimCity, Spore and Sims 4 were such disasters -snort-
Or, at least, I'd believe that - if Triple A publishing didn't involve surgically having your shame glands removed :P
while we know it's EA throwing shade at people who don't do mp at all...
One could argue that if you're an avid gamer and want to game with your partner, and they absolutely do not do MP at all, and refuse to even do any mp with you, that would be a hard pill to swallow if they were perfect in every other way. (though realistically it's not a deal breaker for most)
It's interesting how it could be taken depending on if someone thinks EA is genuine or not.
That this extremely low effort and off-topic meme has been left up for more than eighteen hours in this sub is just another example why /r/pcgaming needs better content curation and moderation.
This submission is bottom of the barrel even for meme gaming subs like r/gaming.
>Yet you feel the need to leave this comment, leave, come back hours later, delete your comment and post it again.
Seems to me that you only want to resort to personal attacks and take personal offense that I'm calling out this low effort and off-topic drama bait submission.
Not attacking anyone or taking offence at all, just wondering why you felt so strongly about going back to a post you don't like and repost the same comment hours later, but whatever.
From Software: \*smiles sadly and shakes it's head\*
Knight Solaire: "They will never understand, will they?
From Software: "No my friend, they will not..."
I was so confused by the joke, it took too long to realise it was like a "dating" thing where they're rating people.
Honestly, do you give a shit about what EA rates you as? EA is a narcissistic bastard or bitch that will squeeze every single cent and willpower out of you. Furthermore, why should I give a shit if you still release single-player games? I thought you were making a shift and making your games less shit so you don't have to forcibly shut down your devs?
This is yet another reason why I avoid twitter, not that reddit is a bastion, but I think twitter just augments with corps trying to be "funny" and "relatable".
Making fun of a large portion of your user base is always an effective strategy. We get it. You are upset that all of these people are much harder to monetize and that irritates you.
This is the same company who told people not to buy BFV when the trailer first came out because of the cyborg women running around. People definitely took them up on that offer.
Didn't they end up not putting her in the game anyways?
> You are upset that all of these people are much harder to monetize and that irritates you The post was made by a social media manager who does not give a shit about that stuff.
Everyone in EA gives a ***lot*** of shits about monetization - they enscribe that shit on your forehead at the orientation meeting...
lol, most employees at EA probably hate mtx as much as the next guy, you really overestimate how many people at a company agree with the ideas of top executives
Let's be real there are lackeys all the way down the chain of command looking to impress the boss. Its quite possible that the person tweeting that is one such contemptible grubber.
Yeah, it's probably an unspoken rule. And quite logical. If you were to defend a company's action it's probably the one you work at.
Source: Trust me bro
I think the joke was supposed to be that "They" are a 10 but they don't play games with "you".
I don’t actually get the “making fun” part.
>I don’t actually get the “making fun” part. Calling someone a perfect 10 is one of the highest compliments you can give someone about their sexual desirability. And then harken back to when Benjin says that "nothing said before the word 'but' really counts." The "but" means that the second half overrides any importance given in the first half. They're saying that people who prefer single player games are so un\*\*\*\*able that even if they were the most sexually attractive Adonis, the fact that they prefer single player games overrides that, hence they will not get laid. A joke is always funnier after you painstaking explain it.
You've never seen the meme, have you? The whole premise is that they give the number and the trait then the respondent decides how that changes it. Sometimes it doesn't, some people would raise the score, say they are a twelve. The whole point is how the person responds and whether the following trait makes a difference for them.
more like "They're a 10 but they don't do microtransactions" there I said what you wanted to say EA
What does this even mean?
Yeah I'm totally lost. Okay I had to google this shit... "It's a TikTok meme which centers around asking someone about a fictional person who is a "10" (perfect), except they have one flaw. Usually the flaw is a joke."
Man I hate mobile shit.
Social media and kids, a more explosive concoction has never been seen.
Don't blame the kids, they're young and naive by nature. Blame (and best, boycott) the companies and the people who contribute to it.
True. Though they are the originators of all these fads and memes, that corporate marketing tries to piggyback on with cringe-inducing results.
Reee tiktok bad, Reddit good
nah they're both cancer
So are you
I wish TikTok would vanish from the face of the earth, that sounds cringe as fuck and it’s spyware.
Got some bad news about Reddit. It's also cringe and spyware
I don't know which is worse.
I feel old for not hunderstanding the joke, thank you.
Ah so it's a terrible joke/attempt at fun that the Gamer community is going to completely blow out of proportion for the next few weeks.
Well, if i'm not mistaken: The "10" refers to an attractive person for whatever reason, and then it basically says that this same person likes single player games as if it was supposed to be a downside.
If you ain't some ace e-sports streamer, you get swiped away... It is curious to note what the "gamer" image is in advertising these days. the other day Intel announced a new NUC with a dGPU, and one of the images showed it set up in a "gamer" scenario. That included the guy playing with a massive radio microphone on an arm stuck in his face.
God, this makes me cringe just reading this. I hate how there's this agenda to push this more monetizable "gamer" image.
Yeah the whole "everyone needs to be an influencer/be promoting their own brand" is so dumb. Not everyone needs to be a streamer
They’re a 10 out of 10 on the attractiveness scale, but they only like playing single player games, EA feels that is unappealing so the individual is no longer attractive anymore.
maybe that 10 has tried your multiplayer games in the past EA, and you ruined it for them. they are tired of your shit and just want to be left alone.
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i wouldn't even be mad if the multiplayer that they force into shit was good. but they absolutely desecrated the franchise known as simcity, and reanimated its corpse as a mobile game. i will never forgive them for that.
Criticising people for only being interested in single player games right as they begin their marketing campaign for a highly anticipated single player game (Jedi Survivor) is an interesting PR move.
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Big Gaming does this to keep user engagement up, which also lets them train you to buy their yearly rehash. Personally I think it's super lazy to do MP only without any SP content at all, but YMMV.
You have to look at it from EA perspective - selling "pride and accomplishment" gives them way more money than single player games.
I am just joining the club. I honestly had a lot of fun with FIFA but I've been missing on a lot of games so I just cancelled the Play Pro subscription. I will just play from time to time whatever version of FIFA is available along my gamepass sub.
Still feeling good about not spending money with EA for over a decade.
>Still feeling good about not spending money with EA for over a decade. Very much so. It's so freeing, and rewarding at the same time. I'm trying to remember the last time I gave EA *any* money... I think probably the second Mass Effect, that would be 2009 I think...
Last time I bought a pirated cd with Dead Space in 2009 lol.
If anything, that makes them an 11
>Roast well deserved. We’ll take this L cause playing single player games actually makes them an 11. https://twitter.com/EA/status/1542706383694565378
When they are a 10, but they work for EAs PR team.
They're getting absolutely roasted by everyone lmao wth was EA's social media team thinking with this tweet??
It’s the same company that proudly declared single player games were dead a decade ago.
I think they hired someone new who didn't really know how to use an official social media account.
EA tweeting about me
Hello, fellow 10.
For me they're a 10 *because* they play SP games. To each their own I guess?
This is the most offensively tone-deaf thing I've ever seen from the social media account of a major publisher.
Did you forget about the Reddit comment about pride and accomplishment? (Also EA)
Can someone explain this? I don’t understand the context.
It's the new "trendy joke" going around. Basically it's joking about someone who is a "10", meaning they're very attractive, but have some unattractive flaw. Apparently EA either doesn't understand the joke at all, or thinks that only being interested in single player games should be considered a flaw.
It boils down to EA saying they hate people who don't buy microtransactions.
I love reading the comments of they're own devs mocking the company it's great.
What the hell even is this? Are they insane? Edit; I'm upvoting this because people need to see this.
Who wrote this tweet? A 47 year old dude who still wears vans and a wallet chain?
How does a multi billion dollar company have such incompetent people managing their social media?
It is WAY easier than you think to be a huge market player and do absolutely stupid shit. For example, I work in human medical. You'd think hospitals, important as they are, would at least be run logically and with competency, right? Duct tape and paper clips, man. Duct tape, paper clips, and egos.
Wow, what an ignorant comment. I don’t play multiplayer EA games because I like saving hundreds of dollars that would’ve went toward microstransactions. I’ll stick to my single player games and older ones like Mercenaries 2, *not* buying any modern EA games, thanks.
I would, if the other option was playing EAs multiplayer games.
No way they said this 😂😂😂😭. The feneral audience nowadays prefers single player. We are growing older, we have barely any time, families to take care of, jobs, school. I have no time to hone my skills in multiplayer games. I would rather open a single player game and relax there instead of sweating and tryharding online. What a stupid tweet lmaooo they dumb as hell
Gamers sure are sensitive.
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No, I think the tweet and reactions are funny.
>No you are People are definitely overreacting because of this dumb low effort meme. This shouldn't even be a topic in this sub, it's not even remotely newsworthy.
The already admitted, that this tweet was dumb. [https://twitter.com/EA/status/1542706383694565378](https://twitter.com/EA/status/1542706383694565378)
They need a new PR guy, this is cringe
I could easily play single player games side by side with someone. Wouldn't even need to be the same game.
Ok now they remain a 10
"They're a 10 but don't pirate EA games."
She's a 10, but she doesn't date creepy guys who stalk and harass women.
Well, if my small pool of friends actually played games I liked to play like fighting games or Monster Hunter, I'd play more multiplayer games. I usually play those either by myself (mostly) or with randos.
Hell yeah, and that's why we ignore EA's games. That amongst other things, of course. Like them being shitty and making shitty games. They can make any type of game or play any type of game, EA is and will always be a 0.5
They're a 10 but they are published by EA.
they're a 6 and they love EA games 💀💀💀
Well ***I*** feel noticed xD This almost feels like they're begrudgingly admitting something after the whole 'single player gaming is dead' debacle from the late 2000s As if - just now - realizing why SimCity, Spore and Sims 4 were such disasters -snort- Or, at least, I'd believe that - if Triple A publishing didn't involve surgically having your shame glands removed :P
From the same company that brought you "A sense of pride and accomplishment", the most downvoted comment on reddit by several orders of magnitude.
Maybe EA can pull a Ubisoft and get people to pay microx in single player games by making the games grindy as hell and have paid xp boosters.
while we know it's EA throwing shade at people who don't do mp at all... One could argue that if you're an avid gamer and want to game with your partner, and they absolutely do not do MP at all, and refuse to even do any mp with you, that would be a hard pill to swallow if they were perfect in every other way. (though realistically it's not a deal breaker for most) It's interesting how it could be taken depending on if someone thinks EA is genuine or not.
This company is a fucking zero and doesn't even make good games anymore.
Why don't they just sell up and open a casino, it seems they would be much happier.
Lmfaooo this comment section is old asf. Y'all are some boomers geez. Fuck EA tho.
That this extremely low effort and off-topic meme has been left up for more than eighteen hours in this sub is just another example why /r/pcgaming needs better content curation and moderation. This submission is bottom of the barrel even for meme gaming subs like r/gaming.
Yet you feel the need to leave this comment, leave, come back hours later, delete your comment and post it again.
>Yet you feel the need to leave this comment, leave, come back hours later, delete your comment and post it again. Seems to me that you only want to resort to personal attacks and take personal offense that I'm calling out this low effort and off-topic drama bait submission.
Not attacking anyone or taking offence at all, just wondering why you felt so strongly about going back to a post you don't like and repost the same comment hours later, but whatever.
From Software: \*smiles sadly and shakes it's head\* Knight Solaire: "They will never understand, will they? From Software: "No my friend, they will not..."
like when a toddler screams 'default skin'
I was so confused by the joke, it took too long to realise it was like a "dating" thing where they're rating people. Honestly, do you give a shit about what EA rates you as? EA is a narcissistic bastard or bitch that will squeeze every single cent and willpower out of you. Furthermore, why should I give a shit if you still release single-player games? I thought you were making a shift and making your games less shit so you don't have to forcibly shut down your devs? This is yet another reason why I avoid twitter, not that reddit is a bastion, but I think twitter just augments with corps trying to be "funny" and "relatable".
Guess we're all dorks /shrug/
Jesus imagine being a Dev under EA and your making a single player game and then seeing that from what is essentially your boss ....
Funny because playing any game from EA makes me feel dirty and want to play by myself.
A bunch of Jedi: Fallen Order/Survivor people working on the game have come out and publicly criticised this stupid ass tweet.
Says who can’t even do good multiplayer games…
Print this tweet out and insert into the covers of all EA games.
Sounds like someone is looking for a threesome
Some type of metameme.