Titanfall: Boycott EA and Respawn

If you own a Playstation 4 or haven’t been living in a cave for the last few years, you probably know already that Respawn Entertainment and EA Games will not be releasing their new game Titanfall on the PS4. The stated reason for this is that since Respawn is a new company they want to put all of their efforts into making a quality game for their first outing. They added that trying to write a game for two different consoles would take away their focus on creating such a game. So they refuse to create a PS4 version for this release.

I say BS!

First of all, they are already releasing the title on two different platforms: PC and XBone. Second, the new generation of consoles are the closest together in terms of hardware and software that they have ever been . We are not dealing with the allegedly hard to program for PS3 OS. Both the PS4 and Xbone now use the same x86 architecture that PC’s use. This former disparity was probably the biggest hurdle in the past to porting games from one system to the next. EA also said that it is about “marketing and loyalty”. I’m not sure why they feel such loyalty to Microsoft but read the next paragraph for the real story.

The real reason is that Microsoft paid EA to keep the game exclusive to the XBone.

So what can PS4 gamers do short of buying an Xbox One? Well I’m glad you asked. My plan will actually save you money and stick it to the man. Regardless of how “loyal” EA is to Microsoft they are still a corporation who value profits above all else. My proposal is that PS4 gamers boycott ALL EA games for the foreseeable future. No Madden, NCAA, Mass Effect, Battlefield (let’s face it, BF4 is broken now anyway), Dead Space, etc. Also if you have a blog,Twitter account, Facebook page, whatever, raise your voice about the huge F.U. that EA and Respawn have sent to us.

If we as a buying block refuse to buy EA and Respawn games we can force them to revisit their decision to screw us and maybe we can change their minds. If they signed an exclusivity contract with MS, then tough for them. Maybe next time they won’t be so “loyal” to Microsoft.