Electronic Arts Tried To Dunk On Single Participant Games And Is Getting Slammed On Twitter

Truth be informed, it is more durable than it appears to be witty on Twitter. Not everybody shares the identical humorousness, and you must watch out to not cross any strains and say one thing silly. So with that in thoughts, we’re hesitant to present Electronic Arts an excessive amount of grief over a current tweet poking enjoyable at single participant video games. We needn’t, as a result of the web at giant is piling it on.

We occur to love single participant video games. Titles like Spider-Man on the PS4/PS5 (and shortly on PC), Control on PC, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the Switch, and a complete bunch of others are a blast to play. You can toss in a in a number of EA titles too, like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, and even Plants vs. Zombies (from its PopCap acquisition).

Be that as it might, somebody at EA in all probability needs they may take this tweet again…

“They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games,” EA wrote on Twitter.

The tweet is a play on a current meme referred to as The Rating Game that unfold like wildfire on TikTookay (you may learn extra about it on Know Your Meme) and naturally hopped over to Twitter. EA’s social media staff or particular person pounced, and whereas the tweet stands at over 22,500 Likes, it is getting blasted within the Twitter thread.

Part of the reason being that EA is a well-liked punching bag. It’s one in all solely two corporations that was twice voted “Worst Company in America” in a Consumerist ballot (2012 and 2013). And to be honest, the web isn’t precisely quick on toxicity (therefore why we’re not getting any additional Return to Monkey Island updates).

In this case, it was simply an odd diss on EA’s half, for a number of causes. Single participant video games are fashionable, and EA would not ignore the class, as numerous tweets had been fast to level out. Some reacted angrily, saying issues like “How are your tweets worse than your games?,” whereas others went extra humorous routes (though the imply tweet is fairly humorous too).

Others pointed the irony in posting the meme when EA is simply months away from publishing its Dead Space remake, a single participant survival horror game. And there are numerous calls to delete the tweet, although it nonetheless stands on the time of this writing.

To EA’s credit score, it took the criticism in stride. In a follow-up tweet, it stated, “Roast well deserved. We’ll take this L cause playing single player games actually makes them an 11.”

Now if you happen to’ll excuse us, The Sims 4 is asking our title…