I thought it was hilarious

Snuggling? Uh, that’s a hard no. I can’t imagine that. I’d be extremely uncomfortable.

Hugging? Yup, lots of hugging in my friends and family.

I don’t wish for more physical affection among males, seems good as is.

It’s not the job of EA execs to keep offices open or people employed. It’s their job to drive profit above anything else, no sacrifice is too great.

This is a great idea.

Oh wow, this brings back memories for the original, definitely gonna try this out

I enjoyed the others in the series for some reason, but cautious about this one.

It’s only Bioware in name. It’s actually a normal corporate just wearing their skin.

Playing this now, it’s really good. I last played just after EA launch, a lot has been added and refined.

In 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

Agreed, the first steps toward fixing this are much deeper.

Peoples jobs will always be sacrificed to make that quarterly earnings call sound sweet to investors.

Profits above all.

30 years experience running enterprise development teams here. Switching databases has happened once for me, Sql Server to Postgres. We were busy with a huge rewrite of something existing, approx $100 million project for a major company.

The instruction to switch dbs came midway through the project, basically on the whim of the CIO. Luckily we were only lightly impacted by db specific features on a couple procs, but code base was abstracted away - which made it achievable.

People down voting have no sense of humor.

So they’re cashing in by selling other people’s conversations.

Yeah.

There are many different reasons than to pursue continually escalating profits.

Those top level folks are sometimes “incentived” by bottom line targets and other end targets. So sure, you do get greedy people inside private companies.

I don’t think shareholders driving for infinite profit is easily disregarded.

The thing is that this guy is not the head of a public company where shareholders demand massive and continually growing profits. So he acts in the interests of the consumer, the customer, the gamer. But if this was a public company, shareholders would buy shares and then demand he do something to grow that share price, so they can sell the shares later for profit.

When that happens we see that CEOs do everything they can to maximize profits, like promising release dates in earnings calls.

The difference between private and public companies is the single biggest threat to us all because as soon as the company acts in the exclusive interest of profit, everything else gets fucked. And most do.

That means employees, customers, everyone. Only the 1% benefit from the gutting of everyone else.

There will be a nice and seemingly articulate PowerPoint presentation that explains the monetization strategy.

The user data on hand, the rise of reddit data in search engines, all factor prominently.

Think I’ll keep waiting a bit more. Give great mods time to get in.