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Avengers was a bad cash grab, however its chances of recovery are much higher than Anthems.

With that said, not all trends are natural, some are mandated on high. EAs attitude towards single player games is chief among them. You may remember the infamous people dont want single player games anymore quote from a few years ago - this was of course the same year you had gigantic single player sales hits like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Horizon and Nier Automata, and two years before EA would release one of their most successful non-sports titles of recent years, Jedi: Fallen Order, a single player game. Obviously that quote was not accurate. It was just EA trying to push what they wanted to do to make more money.

This also wasnt the first time that EA had done this either. In 2010, the same year that EA published Mass Effect 2, they referred to the single player model as finished, and would go on to force multiplayer into their single player games like Dead Space 2. Needless to say, single player games were not finished. They werent responding to the market, they were trying to shape the market.

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