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EA vs. Atari: which is worse?
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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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EA has been infamous for years for various things, not limited to: price gouging, microtransactions taking over games, buying studios to shut them down, rereleasing the same game with a new name and a new high price point -- the list goes on.
Out of the loop on Atari. What did they do (besides go out of business -- I assume you mean new Atari)?
I just learned what had become of two franchises I loved, Rollercoaster tycoon and Simcity. It seems to me that they have been leeching off classic and successful IPs, filling them with microtransactions and making cheap idle games for profit.
Yes. EA has definitely done that a long time. Hasbro now owns the rights to Roller Coaster Tycoon (since they acquired what was left of Atari).
To answer the question of the post, I'd say EA, since their transgressions count an order of magnitude higher than anything Atari/Hasbro could even dream of, based on the sheer number of games/properties they own.
Who, as the makers of the original lootbox game (Magic), have managed to turn it into both ultra-shiny cardboard for collectors (Secret Lairs, Collector Boosters) and a pretty-reasonable F2P game that people actually can and do play for free (Arena).
And yet they keep fucking up with Dungeons & Dragons. Go figure.