The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy; but it sure is nice to see them hurt each other.

If the previous line isn't clear enough, I have a strong hatred of EA. (well not in the 8-bit era when I loved it; but they did a ton of anti-consumer moves since then to destroy all goodwill and more.)

It turns out that EA recently released a game called Apex Legends which is a battle royale game designed to compete against Fortnite and PUBG. Within 3 days it signed up over 10 million accounts. (Videogame review website Eurogamer said it had taken Fortnite about two weeks to hit the 10-million-player mark.)

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-electronic-arts-apex-legends/eas-fortnite-rival-wins-10-million-gamers-in-three-days-idUSKCN1PX2GS

The number of gamers playing “Apex Legends” had crossed 10 million and there were about 1 million gamers logged on at the same time, EA said late on Thursday. As of Friday, the game was the most viewed on gaming live-streaming network Twitch.

Now, I'm no fan of Epic or EA. (Though I admit that similar to lejimster, I used to like Epic in the 90's during the shareware years.) But it would be enjoyable to see if EA can poke out the eyballs of Epic's cash cow. Hopefully in doing so Epic might not have the wads of cash in order to be able to buy "exclusives" from developers.

That being said, I would like to see more competition in game stores... But for me that competition includes Linux; and it excludes anti-consumer behavior like exclusive content.