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[Volus Warlord]

Sundance31us wrote...

wolfsite wrote...

I vote Ninja Stan.

This, though it would be interesting if one of the docs took the reins.

One went all "ra ra social justice" the other went all "ra ra booze." I doubt it.

[Volus Warlord]

J. Reezy wrote...

Volus Warlord wrote...

Sundance31us wrote...

wolfsite wrote...

I vote Ninja Stan.

This, though it would be interesting if one of the docs took the reins.

One went all "ra ra social justice" the other went all "ra ra booze." I doubt it.

Ra ra booze > Ra ra social justice

Agreed. 

But neither put them in as a runner for the CEO position.

[mumba]

DaosX wrote...

Gabe Newell for EA president and merge Origin into Steam!!! Make it happen! It'll totally restore consumer faith in the company!

Merge? F*ck that. Eradicate Origin all-together. 

[Homebound]

its always tough to see someone lose their job.

[Naughty Bear]

Homebound wrote...

its always tough to see someone lose their job.

I'm sure everyone here is offering their condolences .

[Volus Warlord]

Homebound wrote...

its always tough to see someone lose their job.

He got a very juicy severance package, aka more than you will make in your life.

He'll be fine.

[spirosz]

Good.

[Gatt9]

It wasn't just Simcity,  it was...

-Bulletstorm (Underperformed)
-Dragon Age 2 (Underperformed,  sparked firestorms)
-The Old Republic (Underperformed,  lost metric tons of money,  rumors that subscription numbers may have been misreported by counting free month players as subscribers)
-Battlefield 3 (Outsold 2:1 by Call of Duty)
-Mass Effect 3 (Largest firestorm in gaming history,  earned it "Worst company of the year" award)
-Medal of Honor (bombed hard)
-Dead Space 3 (Sold only 600,000 units in the US in it's first month,  it's bombing hard)
-Crysis 3 (Sold only 260,000 units in 2 weeks in the US,  it's bombing hard)
-Simcity 5 (Unmitigated disaster of a release,  and then employees are leaking information and modders discovered that the servers don't actually do anything)

It was also...

-Loss of the Doctors,  which harms investor confidence
-PR continually infuriating gamers with insistence that microtransactions and multiplayer in everything is the only way to make a game
-Numerous anonymous leaks that may or may not be accurate of shady practices
-Rumors that the Origin numbers may be misrepresented by counting people who've never actually installed Origin (Forum accounts,  Console gamers)
-An original EULA for Origin certain to draw massive lawsuits,  and so anti-consumer it guarantees that many people will never touch the platform.
-Reports of EA banning people from their purchases,  for often flimsy reasons,  raising the spectre of serious lawsuits.
-A Simcity beta agreement that would ban you from Origin if you even heard someone talk about a bug.

Not to mention...

-A very high probability that Dragon Age 3 is going to tank hard given the history.
-A very high probability that Mass Effect 4 is going to tank hard given the history.
-A likelyhood that Battlefield 4 is going to seriously underperform given people's increasing hatred of EA.

It's very clear that EA is about to take a massive nosedive in revenue,  and it would lead to alot of uncomfortable questions about things EA's reported,  possibly shareholder lawsuits.  Frank was going to lose his job by year's end,  this is obviously a calculated decision to try and mitigate the impending negativity.

The only question is:  Will the board of directors pick someone to replace him who will reverse the anti-consumer behavior and actually try to make money by making great games?

I give it 50/50.  I could see it going either way.

[spirosz]

Gatt, are you referring to under performed in relevance to sales, or how you view the games, in terms of quality?

[HoonDing]

There's actually going to be a Mass Effect 4? Lol. Oh, EA, you.

[chunkyman]

http://youtu.be/kKSxlJPmz40?t=1m22s
^My reaction when I found out^

I rather dislike EA's current practices, so hopefully whoever his replacement is does a really good job and turns the complany around.

[OdanUrr]

The Best John Riccitiello Jokes Twitter Has To Offer

[Burnham1]

Changing leadership won't matter if the ideas stay the same. The entire board and the new CEO need to seriously re-evaluate their current business decisions and realize their consumers are not on board with them. You can only push your consumer base so far before they start pushing back. And by then going back to the other side of the line you just crossed is no longer good enough. They push back hard and they push back far.

-Micro transactions need to be used much more sparingly or become non existent.
-DLC prices must drop back down to fair levels and stop increasing the price for the same or less content then what was delivered a year ago.
-Stop trying to do the CoD thing and push major AAA sequels out every year. Give your developers ample time to actually develop the best possible game they can. No more shortcuts to try to meet deadlines like we got with DA2. That game could have been so much greater if given another year or two of development time.
-Knock it off with day 1 DLC. To the customer it looks like you are selling an incomplete product and purposefully taking elements out of it to sell to them at a higher price. You aren't winning anyone over doing that. You are ticking people off.
-Enough with the terrible DRM's. You aren't stopping piracy or whatever other stupid excuse you are trying to use. You are simply just trying to control how we play our games and we don't like it and won't stand for it. Knock it off.

There are plenty more things as well but I tire of writing these extremely obvious things out. The bottom line is, you are a gaming company. It is time you started making games for the goal of making the best game you possibly can and stop making games with the goal of making the most money you possibly can.

Fans come first. They always have and always will. If you forget that, they will make you pay for it. They are the ones who make your business what it is. Not people on Wall Street.

Modifié par Burnham1, 18 mars 2013 - 11:39 .

[Burnham1]

Gatt9 wrote...

It wasn't just Simcity,  it was...

-Bulletstorm (Underperformed)
-Dragon Age 2 (Underperformed,  sparked firestorms)
-The Old Republic (Underperformed,  lost metric tons of money,  rumors that subscription numbers may have been misreported by counting free month players as subscribers)
-Battlefield 3 (Outsold 2:1 by Call of Duty)
-Mass Effect 3 (Largest firestorm in gaming history,  earned it "Worst company of the year" award)
-Medal of Honor (bombed hard)
-Dead Space 3 (Sold only 600,000 units in the US in it's first month,  it's bombing hard)
-Crysis 3 (Sold only 260,000 units in 2 weeks in the US,  it's bombing hard)
-Simcity 5 (Unmitigated disaster of a release,  and then employees are leaking information and modders discovered that the servers don't actually do anything)

It was also...

-Loss of the Doctors,  which harms investor confidence
-PR continually infuriating gamers with insistence that microtransactions and multiplayer in everything is the only way to make a game
-Numerous anonymous leaks that may or may not be accurate of shady practices
-Rumors that the Origin numbers may be misrepresented by counting people who've never actually installed Origin (Forum accounts,  Console gamers)
-An original EULA for Origin certain to draw massive lawsuits,  and so anti-consumer it guarantees that many people will never touch the platform.
-Reports of EA banning people from their purchases,  for often flimsy reasons,  raising the spectre of serious lawsuits.
-A Simcity beta agreement that would ban you from Origin if you even heard someone talk about a bug.

Not to mention...

-A very high probability that Dragon Age 3 is going to tank hard given the history.
-A very high probability that Mass Effect 4 is going to tank hard given the history.
-A likelyhood that Battlefield 4 is going to seriously underperform given people's increasing hatred of EA.

It's very clear that EA is about to take a massive nosedive in revenue,  and it would lead to alot of uncomfortable questions about things EA's reported,  possibly shareholder lawsuits.  Frank was going to lose his job by year's end,  this is obviously a calculated decision to try and mitigate the impending negativity.

The only question is:  Will the board of directors pick someone to replace him who will reverse the anti-consumer behavior and actually try to make money by making great games?

I give it 50/50.  I could see it going either way.

Solid and informative post. Good job sir.

[Splinter Cell 108]

HoonDing wrote...

There's actually going to be a Mass Effect 4? Lol. Oh, EA, you.

Yeah, and if the pattern proves to be accurate, it will probably be announced this year, released next year or the year after that. Not enough development time IMO, ME3 just came out a year ago and even then it was an unfinished mess with a lot of things that were cut out. 

[Korusus]

 I'm as happy as the next guy to see EA get a new CEO in the hopes that they will mend their ways.

The realist in me knows the only reason EA acquired BioWare was because of John and his departure + no more docs = BioWare's demise.  Especially if Probst remains CEO.

It will be subtle at first and will come in small doses.  But whatever amount of protection John and the Doctors gave to BioWare's autonomy is now officially over.

I do like the idea of Ray Muzyka becoming the next EA CEO.  That might be the only chance BioWare has to retain autonomy.

[tanerb123]

wiggles, it is not the titles published, it is how they published it. this guy was the epitome of "dumbing down" in the gaming industry which created a huge wave of rushed games relying on multiplayer and dlcs instead of quality.

Modifié par tanerb123, 18 mars 2013 - 11:57 .

[Splinter Cell 108]

Korusus wrote...

 I'm as happy as the next guy to see EA get a new CEO in the hopes that they will mend their ways.

The realist in me knows the only reason EA acquired BioWare was because of John and his departure + no more docs = BioWare's demise.  Especially if Probst remains CEO.

It will be subtle at first and will come in small doses.  But whatever amount of protection John and the Doctors gave to BioWare's autonomy is now officially over.

I do like the idea of Ray Muzyka becoming the next EA CEO.  That might be the only chance BioWare has to retain autonomy.

To be honest, I think that was going to happen regardless of who they put in charge. It was only a matter of time. As for the new guy lets, hope they're smart enough to put someone in charge that understands gaming, although I'm not sure since Ricitiello was just one man and one man's ideas are not going to decide the direction that company as big as EA takes. 

[Lunch Box1912]

I just hope this is for the better and things don't get worse moving on.

Modifié par Lunch Box1912, 19 mars 2013 - 12:14 .

[SOLID_EVEREST]

wiggles89 wrote...

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What the **** am I reading?

Also great post Gatt.

It might just be EA employees or something. I can't say why anyone would be happy with EA right now. They were voted the most hated company!

The news comes at a complete surprise. I would've thought he would sink with the ship, but maybe EA might (I'm giving it a slim chance) change into a better company.

Modifié par Ninja Stan, 19 mars 2013 - 07:25 .

[LPPrince]

I doubt one man leaving is gonna suddenly flip the switch on the company