EA insults single-player game fans with misguided TikTok meme
An attempt at a Twitter joke from EA has come across as an attack on single-player games, angering fans and even its own staff.
Corporations quoting or referencing popular memes is usually pretty cringey at the best of times. Their attempts to be #relatable and appeal to the youth usually ends up backfiring in one way or another, like Ultra Instinct Shaggy being a playable character in MultiVersus.
Sometimes, it can successfully drive up social media engagement but only because it makes everyone incredibly angry. Like what happened with EA today, with a tweet that seemed to deride single-player games.
The company’s official Twitter account reused a TikTok meme that’s making the rounds, where you describe someone as a 10 (as in 10/10), but mention the one, usually comically minor, flaw they have.
The poor sap who runs the account figured it’d be a good idea to write, ‘They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games.’
While it may have been a harmless joke in their eyes, it’s a classic case of them not reading the room and failing to remember how much of an anti-single-player stance the company has seemed to have for years.
Only five years ago, in 2017, EA claimed that single-player games weren’t popular anymore, something that many to this day have not let go and regularly bring up to mock the company.
Two years later, it cancelled a single-player Star Wars game in the works at Dead Space studio Visceral Games, and then shut the whole studio down.
It’d be one thing if only regular people were incensed by EA’s comment, but it’s also been met with some damning responses from former and current staff.
Dragon Age director Mike Laidlaw described it as ‘tone deaf’ and Zach Mumbach (who was at Visceral Games until it was shut
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