How EA Lost Its Soul
121Electronic Arts is often reviled for being a cold, pragmatic empire of gaming, but, what if I told you, that the man who founded EA, was opposed to all of this from the start. That to this day, he carries bad blood with the company that he started back in 1982. That man's name is Trip Hawkins, and he's probably one of the most fascinating people I had never heard of... Check out the rarely told story of early history of EA where they were leading the way and pushing forward the medium, and ultimately find out how electronic arts is bad in present. This is the story of the rise and fall of EA.
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Huge thanks to the many articles and interviews I read/watched for this video! And huge shout out to Polygon's article entitled "How EA Lost its Soul," which heavily inspired the whole video, let alone the title.
Part 2 of "How EA Lost its Soul" can be found here: https://youtu.be/EfWidoEWCoI
And covers the creation of the John Madden Football franchise, reverse engineering the Sega Genesis, and Trip Hawkins leaving EA to found the 3DO Company.
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