EA tweeted about single-player games and even their own devs were annoyed

rockpapershotgun.com:

I can't tell you how much I'd prefer to ignore brandter, in which corporate Twitter accounts pretend to be people with terrible senses of humour. Alas, in this instance I cannot. Yesterday EA tweeted a terrible meme and related it to single-player games, and in the process drew the ire of several current and former game developers at studios owned by EA.

Here's the tweet:

They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games

"They're a 10 but they only like playing single-player games", it reads. "They're a 10 but" is a snowclone that's been doing the rounds, and it's already shit tier patter both because it's a tired meme and because it's about rating human beings on a numeric scale.

In this instance, it's the "but they only like playing single-player games" that got people riled up, because it was seen as EA insulting single-player games. That's the EA who both make several single-player games and who have a reputation for killing single-player games if they can't be turned into live service loot box machines.

Here's the response from Vince Zampella, who is the founder of EA-owned Respawn (who make singleplayer games like Titanfall and the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) and who also looks after the Battlefield and Medal Of Honor series for EA: