Electronic Arts CEO Facing Trouble

[IamQ]

I like the picture..

"Hmmm...I am...pondering..."

 

[ma55ter_fett]

I feel bad for EA...

On a side note the devil can now ice skate to work every morning cause hell has frozen over.

 

[SimuLord]

What's impressive is that Riccitiello started out screwing the customer, which got EA in this mess in the first place, and now that he's trying to remedy that, the investors are after their heads.

I actually feel bad for the guy.

 

[The Rockerfly]

No EA keep making new and interesting titles, please don't go the way of Activision

These words don't belong in the same sentence!

/short rant

Dead Space, Mirrors Edge, Mass Effect, Dragons Age, Brutal Legend and Dantes Inferno. Some of the most interesting games to come out and to be released

 

[Saul B]

No EA keep making new and interesting titles, please don't go the way of Activision

These words don't belong in the same sentence!

/short rant

Dead Space, Mirrors Edge, Mass Effect, Dragons Age, Brutal Legend and Dantes Inferno. Some of the most interesting games to come out and to be released

You got me there..... Uh.... -runs and hides-

 

[The Rockerfly]

No EA keep making new and interesting titles, please don't go the way of Activision

that has to suck but i do hope EA does keep on making new IPs unlike Activision

I know this sounds bad but I hope EA does a bit of crap titles just to make money to ride out the recession so that when it's over he is still on management. If he is then they will have wiggle room to make new titles. After what Activision has done lately I kinda want their CEO to burn at the cross.

Completely agree, hey we can still hope the top floor of Hell tower burns down so Bobby will die...Or just get wounded painfully

 

[The Rockerfly]

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No EA keep making new and interesting titles, please don't go the way of Activision

It's Activision who originally went the way of EA.

EA repented and they are cool now though, I mean look at their game releases; Mirrors Edge, Dead Space, Dantes Inferno, Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Brutal Legend. Granted they also make The Sims , the shit sports game and Ned for Speed every damn year but they pay for new and original games to be made

That's weird, I enjoy the sports games.

I've hated every single one but I will re edited my post just for you

 

[Cowabungaa]

The irony for gamers is that after years of excoriating the company for destroying studios and churning out lackluster, cookie-cutter crap, Riccitiello appeared to "get the message" not long after he took over: He claimed to dislike heavy-handed DRM, promised that the company would make a greater effort to create new and better titles (and then actually delivered on that promise) and even appeared to take an enlightened view toward piracy. Yet it's the unabashedly profit-driven Bobby Kotick at Activision [http://www.activision.com] who's riding high these days, while EA continues to flounder.

And that's why the world is such a horrible place. Profit above all! That's really the main problem. I remember a documentary about the video game industry on Discovery Channel. One episode was about the big videogame crash, notably Atari's horrible doom after they were bought up and instead of being able to really make games at their leisure (and flourishing because of it) were forced to churn out massive amounts of crap, completely taking them down. An old employee put it like this: "You can't buy creativity." And I completely agree with that.

I just hope that something similar won't happen again.

and Ned for Speed every damn year but they pay for new and original games to be made

The latest NFS instalment, Shift, was actually a very good game and really brought the series back from the brink. Totally took a new direction, completely ignored all the tuning/street racing bullshit from before, very nice balance between arcade and simulation, it's the first racing game in ages I actually like.

This makes me sad.

I have adored new the direction EA has taken. They are fully redeemed for their past sins in my eyes. I don't want to lose this.

They're improving, yes, and I don't want that to stop. But completely forgiving them...have you forgotten about Bullfrog and Westwood, HAVE YOU?!

*sniff*

[sub]I want my Dungeon Keeper 3...[/sub]

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

No EA keep making new and interesting titles, please don't go the way of Activision

that has to suck but i do hope EA does keep on making new IPs unlike Activision

I know this sounds bad but I hope EA does a bit of crap titles just to make money to ride out the recession so that when it's over he is still on management. If he is then they will have wiggle room to make new titles. After what Activision has done lately I kinda want their CEO to burn at the cross.

Completely agree, hey we can still hope the top floor of Hell tower burns down so Bobby will die...Or just get wounded painfully

Or he could get cronic mind altering diahorea during a meeting and get fired that would work too.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Or he could get cronic mind altering diahorea during a meeting and get fired that would work too.

...That...Is...Pure genius! I love it
*sigh* now you've got my hopes p for this to happen to him

and Ned for Speed every damn year but they pay for new and original games to be made

The latest NFS instalment, Shift, was actually a very good game and really brought the series back from the brink. Totally took a new direction, completely ignored all the tuning/street racing bullshit from before, very nice balance between arcade and simulation, it's the first racing game in ages I actually like.

I actually quite liked Underground, I hate Underground 2 and stopped playing it there because reviews were awful. I agree towards the end the tuning got ridiculous and utterly pointless in some cases but hey someone obviously liked them. I however was not among them

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Or he could get cronic mind altering diahorea during a meeting and get fired that would work too.

...That...Is...Pure genius! I love it
*sigh* now you've got my hopes p for this to happen to him

and Ned for Speed every damn year but they pay for new and original games to be made

The latest NFS instalment, Shift, was actually a very good game and really brought the series back from the brink. Totally took a new direction, completely ignored all the tuning/street racing bullshit from before, very nice balance between arcade and simulation, it's the first racing game in ages I actually like.

I actually quite liked Underground, I hate Underground 2 and stopped playing it there because reviews were awful. I agree towards the end the tuning got ridiculous and utterly pointless in some cases but hey someone obviously liked them. I however was not among them

Yes we can hope or we can know if we geneticall alter a virus what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Cowabungaa]

I actually quite liked Underground, I hate Underground 2 and stopped playing it there because reviews were awful. I agree towards the end the tuning got ridiculous and utterly pointless in some cases but hey someone obviously liked them. I however was not among them

The first Underground wasn't that bad indeed, it was one of the first tuning racing games, a fresh concept I quite fancied myself for once (even though I hated the 'scene'). But indeed, as EA did so often, they kept churning out the same crap again. Shift was a very welcome new change, and another piece of evidence of EA's apparent new philosophy. I just hope that this news does not endanger that new direction, I'd hate to see EA go back to their old wicked ways again.

 

[jimduckie]

ea got too geedy buying all those developers ,they shot themselves in the foot ,hey maybe the gov will bail them out

 

[The Rockerfly]

Yes we can hope or we can know if we geneticall alter a virus what could possibly go wrong?

Oh good God don't that, Bobby will probably turn into some form of Alex Mercer if he comes with any virus, it'll just make the demon stronger

I actually quite liked Underground, I hate Underground 2 and stopped playing it there because reviews were awful. I agree towards the end the tuning got ridiculous and utterly pointless in some cases but hey someone obviously liked them. I however was not among them

The first Underground wasn't that bad indeed, it was one of the first tuning racing games, a fresh concept I quite fancied myself for once (even though I hated the 'scene'). But indeed, as EA did so often, they kept churning out the same crap again. Shift was a very welcome new change, and another piece of evidence of EA's apparent new philosophy. I just hope that this news does not endanger that new direction, I'd hate to see EA go back to their old wicked ways again.

This is why the news concerns me, MW2 hits $1 billion and EA is losing money, EA are making fresh, new titles and Activision are making the same stuff they make every year. Costs in Activision will be lower and from evidence, profits are also higher. God damn I hope they don't go back to the old ways

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Gamers railed against EA for years for making unimaginative, cookie-cutter games loaded with DRM and endless sequels. Suddenly, EA decided to turn it around and start investing in original properties and reducing DRM.

Gamers responded by turning around and spending all their money on yet another "safe" sequel, Modern Warfare 2.

I guess we really do get what we deserve.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Yes we can hope or we can know if we geneticall alter a virus what could possibly go wrong?

Oh good God don't that, Bobby will probably turn into some form of Alex Mercer if he comes with any virus, it'll just make the demon stronger

I actually quite liked Underground, I hate Underground 2 and stopped playing it there because reviews were awful. I agree towards the end the tuning got ridiculous and utterly pointless in some cases but hey someone obviously liked them. I however was not among them

The first Underground wasn't that bad indeed, it was one of the first tuning racing games, a fresh concept I quite fancied myself for once (even though I hated the 'scene'). But indeed, as EA did so often, they kept churning out the same crap again. Shift was a very welcome new change, and another piece of evidence of EA's apparent new philosophy. I just hope that this news does not endanger that new direction, I'd hate to see EA go back to their old wicked ways again.

This is why the news concerns me, MW2 hits $1 billion and EA is losing money, EA are making fresh, new titles and Activision are making the same stuff they make every year. Costs in Activision will be lower and from evidence, profits are also higher. God damn I hope they don't go back to the old ways

Yes but thats when we release the time travelling robot ninja pirate alien cops with termination set to on.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Yes but thats when we release the time travelling robot ninja pirate alien cops with termination set to on.

Something with that many syllables in it, has to be evil! Bobby will have no choice to bow down to the greater evil...unless he is truly so evil that he would ruin the video game industry and have the robot, ninja, pirate alien cops bow down to him

:O

*gasp*

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Yes but thats when we release the time travelling robot ninja pirate alien cops with termination set to on.

Something with that many syllables in it, has to be evil! Bobby will have no choice to bow down to the greater evil...unless he is truly so evil that he would ruin the video game industry and have the robot, ninja, pirate alien cops bow down to him

:O

*gasp*

If thats the case then only Arnold Swarzhisnameagain, Stephen Segal, Bruce Willis and anyone else I can't think of to stop him.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Yes but thats when we release the time travelling robot ninja pirate alien cops with termination set to on.

Something with that many syllables in it, has to be evil! Bobby will have no choice to bow down to the greater evil...unless he is truly so evil that he would ruin the video game industry and have the robot, ninja, pirate alien cops bow down to him

:O

*gasp*

If thats the case then only Arnold Swarzhisnameagain, Stephen Segal, Bruce Willis and anyone else I can't think of to stop him.

Would surprise me if that was true, otherwise someone would have killed him already. I have a suspicion that Bobby is like the T1000 though