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Fe Director Says EA Provided "So Much Help" Without Messing with the Artistic Vision for the Game

Published Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:45:42 -0600

The director on EA's upcoming Fe, Andreas Beijer, has come to bat for the publisher saying they've been a great working partner.

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EA has had a rough go of it in recent months. With the closure of Visceral, the Star Wars: Battlefront 2 debacle and several other high-profile PR nightmares, the company has seen a bit of a public mauling. You don't have to go far in places like YouTube to see long videos tearing the publisher down for its mistakes.

However, while all of that goes on, it's easy to forget that EA isn't all big AAA Star Wars games, but also has a hand in some smaller titles. The publisher has in recent years plucked several indie games out of the water and given them a big distributing platform, such as Unravel. It has similar project coming next month, too, in the form of Fe.

The platformer looks like really neat little title based on a lot of exploration and nature — a far cry from the expense and noise of other EA titles. Beijer sang the publisher's praises in an interview with WCCFTech saying that they've not felt interfered with in their collaboration. He said:

"It has been amazing to have them onboard actually. I understand it might sound like I'm paid to say this but that's the honest truth. They have provided so much help without meddling with the artistic vision of the game and it has been fantastic for us to be able to use their experience and knowledge of making and publishing games. Beijer sung the publisher's praises saying that they've not felt interfered with in their collaboration."

I'm really happy to see a title like Fe coming out of EA right now. The company could use a different look right now, and helping a small developer who has seemingly benefited from their guidance certainly is a decent change of pace to the fervour around games-as-services and microtransactions. Here's hoping the title lives up to that.

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