Fuck EA.
lol, imagine seeing you’re “a random EA employee”
Glad the article went on to mention them.
All it takes is to mention them, but alas, majority of the time its always a generic statement or a statement describing their age.
What strikes me the most is how its a multibillion dollar company but a large part of the work was seemingly done by staff in their free time and by modders. Its seems like EA itself did the bare minimum.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were told “you can do this but it can’t cost us anything and its in your own time”.
More likely, it’s in their contracts that anything they come up with belongs to the company, even if they did it at home, on their own time.
EA did something good?
And all of the 90s artists agreed to relicense the Road Rash soundtrack music??
I like this feeling, and I can’t wait to try the Road Rash remaster.
EA found a way to make more money
Chris Cornell said it was OK.
And all of the 90s artists agreed to relicense the Road Rash soundtrack music??
Yes.
To add onto this… there were only six artists on it.
Soundgarden, Paw, Hammerbox, Therapy?, Monster Magnet, and Swervedriver
I can’t believe they’re selling it like a relicensed soundtrack was actually a big deal. EA just didn’t want to do it. So they waited thirty years and are now complaining that it was hard.
It’s not like the more famous licensing struggles with older artists (The Wonder Years was famously hard to reproduce) over the years. They still had some trouble because apparently they had to track down everyone due to their own negligence.
Successfully pulling this off would require connecting with the music label and every band member who controlled a ‘side’ of the 14 tracks. By the summer of 2026, we had agreements in place with 6 of the 7 bands (including the most prominent band on the list), but after months of searching we still could not find one of the members for a specific band," Vessella explains.
Oh fucking boo hoo.
I’m not sure where they’re getting “7 bands” though because they list 6 themselves (quoted from the article below). Discogs also only lists six.
Soundgarden, Paw, Hammerbox, Monster Magnet, Therapy?, and Swervedriver
It’s this why I saw the entire wing Commander library for sale on steam? I played the first two and privateer in my old 486, but had to tinker with config.sys and autoexec.bat to clear enough cache and there was no way I could stretch to to play #3
Some of those later ones were like movies with meson drivers mixed in. Mark Hamil, John rhys-davies? I think I remember Christopher Walken giving me friend-or-foe radar at some point?
Those games all take me back, wow!
