I haven’t been sleeping well lately, for various reasons. I now know why: it was my body getting me ready to mine some salt for this story that got sent to me overnight, because I have never seen such pure amounts of salt to be mined. EA’s chief design officer, in an interview with Patrick Söderlund with GamesIndustry.biz makes a defense of Command and Conquer Rivals and of mobile gaming. The game received a negative reaction from the “real gamers" after it was announced during EA’s E3 press conference, and there wasn’t a new PC Command and Conquer game also in tow. Söderlund says “We’re going to come to a point where we need to respect mobile games as much as console games. I know that’s difficult to see when you come to E3, but our mobile business is growing quite significantly, and we look at those teams with the same value and the same integrity as we look at our console teams. And we believe this is the best interpretation we can do of the brand right now."
Oh yes, let the hate flow through you, gamers. Or, flow even further, after the 2.1k:49k like:dislike ratio on that trailer. Woof. On one hand, everything EA does is a ploy to make money in some way because they’re a billion-dollar corporation. A new “real" Command and Conquer game would serve the same purpose as this mobile version serves: to use the license to make a bunch of money. And really, people harp on mobile games so much t...