It's all about the money nowadays, nobody really makes truly great video games for fun anymore.
I've been looking for it, but I used to have a VHS tape of a guy interviewing developers of Donkey Kong Country before it came out on the Super Nintendo. I'll bet it is still floating around here somewhere. Back when they loved making games as much as they loved playing them. Now they're too busy trying to find ways to milk players for more money. Releasing half-complete games and releasing bits and bits of it to us for a price, essentially costing us triple the price of the game in "extra"content alone.
I remember when they put that shit on four CD's instead of cutting out content and making us pay extra for it.
P.S. Fuck EA.