I'm being harsh bc the gaming industry deserves it. It's the most profitable form of media, and has been for awhile now, and all they ever really tried to do was rewrap a casino, and space out gameplay so that its played daily as progression. Meh, that's a tangent tho.

Today, rn - EA is a $50 Billion Gaming Giant but is not Sony, Samsung, Nintendo, Apple, Epic, Amazon or Microsoft, so... that's just the way it is.

Microsoft will make an Xbox out of everything. All publishers want to be distributing on a near universally adopted platform - which is what Game Pass is now.

EA already existing within the Game Pass ecosystem means they can't get out any more - this isn't the streaming wars, I already know that Netflix wins in the end.

I'll not tolerate an EA platform and they literally already have one, I have to occasionally visit, despite EA on Game Pass - bc it's janky and not worth the money at all a top of Gamepass. t

ALL the bigger companies have distribution platforms they pray we all adopt as a forever SaS - we already know how this goes.

Microsoft wins.

AFTER THAT, I think the whole distribution model will change completely.