It's gotten so bad that I originally had an idea to get an Origin account to get the other Dragon Age games and maybe the odd Need For Speed(I enjoyed Most Wanted). But not anymore.

I'm playing a few NFS games on Steam. They are playable up to a point, then the DRM gets way out of hand.

The last game EA game I consider worth playing is Red Alert 3 (and the Uprising add-on)
I actually got a copy of C&C4 for free (at the time of its release I was running a C&C web site and had been a long-time community member and the then community manager, Aaron "Apoc" Kaufman gave me a free digital download copy of the game because of that) and its so crap I haven't even bothered to finish the single player campaign.

I did buy The Ultimate Collection (with all the C&C games in it) but that was to get various older games including C&C Renegade (I was and still am the lead developer on a major community-developed enhancement patch for that game and I wanted to get The Ultimate Collection so I could support that version of C&C Renegade in the enhancement patch plus it was a great way to get the classic stuff) and it was in 2012 before EA got so bad and I haven't bought (or illegally downloaded for that matter) any EA titles since then and will not do so unless they change their tune in a big way.

If I knew the right way to go about it I would contact my local elected representatives here in Australia and ask that they do something about loot crates or anything else in games where you pay real world money without knowing in advance what you will get. The law should be changed such that any game featuring such features gets an R rating (adults only and the highest rating games can get) which would force publishers to either remove them from the game or significantly cut their potential audience (some retailers wont stock R rated games, some digital stores wont sell R rated games and some platform owners wont allow R rated games on their platforms). There is no reason these transactions shouldn't be treated as gambling and heavily restricted (or outright banned).

But I dont know the right people to contact to express my views on this so I will continue to do the best I can and not buy any games from companies that do things like this.

Undercover works like a blast,and has no DRM except for Steam CEG ;p.Cheers

I'm very sad that the Star Wars franchise is in EA's hands. Maybe only Ubisoft would be worse, though I doubt it... They cancelled a single player game just because they can't fill it with pay-to-win crap, saying that gamers don't want single player linear yada yada...

Star Wars 1313 would probably have been repurposed as a "Standard Ubisoft Open World Game", probably mixing Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs and FarCry.

Hell, I’d probably get and play that, eventually.

And yet DOS2 is one of the most beloved games yet, a single player game with an isometric view no less.

Yes but DOS2 doesn't brings in a billion using microtransactions.

Can't wait to see the corporate defenders coming out of the woodwork to defend this.

The problem lies with the boards of directors that structure corporate compensation in a way that excessively rewards short term performance, irrespective of the impact that has in the long term -- which is generally very negative.

I wish there was a downvote button to disagree with that amount of salary. Did the CEO really work 308 times harder than an average game software developer? (Source: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer%2c_Games/Salary)