Probably doesn’t help, and fuck their current owners, but EA has been notorious for buying and killing studios for more than 30 years.
The plot of Ultima 7 was full of references to it. The big bad was a reference to EA corrupting people to join his side, he tried to destroy magic in the world, his power was split in three artefacts shaped like EA’s logo, and his two main agents in the world had E and A initials.
Funnily enough the game was basically finished when EA bought Origin Systems who made Ultima, so they just published it as-is.
Probably doesn’t help, and fuck their current owners, but EA has been notorious for buying and killing studios for more than 30 years.
The plot of Ultima 7 was full of references to it. The big bad was a reference to EA corrupting people to join his side, he tried to destroy magic in the world, his power was split in three artefacts shaped like EA’s logo, and his two main agents in the world had E and A initials.
Funnily enough the game was basically finished when EA bought Origin Systems who made Ultima, so they just published it as-is.
They hadn’t released a game that made back its development cost in over a decade, they were a billion dollar money hole.
Origin? That decade happened under EA’s banner, the company seemed rather healthy before that from what I could find.
And that doesn’t change that EA was already being nicknamed “destroyer of worlds” by them back in 1992.