EA says: Don’t worry, our games won’t be all free-to-play or always-online
Offline and pay-upfront is “something many of our players want”, agrees Moore.
“We don’t ship a game at EA that is offline,” the company’s chief operating officer Peter Moore told Engadget at Gamescom last week, cue a predictable wave of shock and recrimination. Fear not, everybody – Moore’s had a change of heart, or rather, feels his comments were “misinterpreted”.