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[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Alex, I am sure there is a middle ground between "sunshine, rainbows and Obsidian-made Ultima!" and "doom, gloom and GOG is now Origin".

[spirosz]

Gatt9 wrote...
They may also try to pull in a KotOR 3 done by Bioware,  and may attempt to talk Hasbro into letting them have Bioware develop a new D&D game.  

I'd rather Obsidian make KOTOR 3, tbh. 

[billy the squid]

CrustyBot wrote...

Alex, I am sure there is a middle ground between "sunshine, rainbows and Obsidian-made Ultima!" and "doom, gloom and GOG is now Origin".

Never! There are no compromises.

Rather, I don't see the John R's leaving as a good thing, particularly given EA's position has only deteriorated financially, his interim replacement is worse, considering his track record on removing competition, I wouldn't be surprised if EA attempts to do what it did before John R. arrived. Buy out and drive out. So whether they'll attempt to absorb CDPR and everything that goes with it aka GOG, I don't know, but as CDPR is privately owned EA has, as yet no leverage to force it.

I think ME4 and other projects will continue, although I think it's stupid to believe that it won't contain MP and microtransactions. The money for that has already been alotted. But, I wouldn't be surprised if the newer IPS were designed to "broaden appeal" ala Dead Space 3. John R. presided over Dead Space 1 being published.

That's one of the big failings of EA, they went up again Activision and lost. With Battlefield vs CoD (although I think Battlefield is better) and SWTOR vs WOW. they were designed to be competitors and wrest mrkt share from Activision, but they didn't even make a dent. for instance BF3 made sold 6 million copies in the first week, which is great, they should be very pleased. But, CoD sold 6million in the first DAY! There in lies the problem, they tried to compete with something fundamentaly different and took a hamering. God knows how much they sunk into SWTOR, although I have the suspicion the actual figure is worse than what people realise.

So they have to recoup money from somewhere. Hence, I'm more pragmatic in where is the money going to come from? We've 3 options. Cost savings, higher rate of returns in a stagnated market (at least until the next gen comes out) and eliminating competition.

Although I'm looking at this as a lawyer/ accountant/ investor. One of those horrid suited people that gamers love to hate 

[Bleachrude]

Day 1 DLC will ALWAYS happen because of

a) how gamers react to buying DLC.

(on xbox, you can check to see the best selling DLC for ME3 and in order they are Leviathan, Omega and then citadel which is the same order they were released.

You can take any game with DLC and it doesn't matter the quality, the last DLC will ALWAYS sell worse than the first one....

how console development works
Again, what exactly do you want bioware to do with the 5-7 weeks after the game is "done" but hasn't reached our hands?

Extra credits did a great episode explaining WHY companies do it and why it will continue into the future...the best we can hope for is that it isn't a naked cash grab...

[Costin_Razvan]

They shall sing songs of this for the Dark Lord of Mordor has been vanquished!

[Aeowyn]

It's surprising. It will be interesting to see what will happen in the next 6 - 12 months, but really, I doubt anything will change.

[redBadger14]

I'm with Alex on this one. Anyone who personally knows John Riccitello knew that he was a CEO who was a gamer himself, concerned with making decisions that improved games, not necessarily for the best financial interests at times.

His stepping down sort of scares me.

[redBadger14]

Arcian wrote...

redBadger14 wrote...

I'm with Alex on this one. Anyone who personally knows John Riccitello knew that he was a CEO who was a gamer himself, concerned with making decisions that improved games, not necessarily for the best financial interests at times.

His stepping down sort of scares me.

Please tell me you're not being serious.

That's one interview. Good try though, really overwhelming evidence there portraying JR as a heartless CEO concerned only with profit.

Regardless, that interview was in bad context, and obviously what JR said then was idiotic, but it was more of him drawing a really bad example. I don't believe for one second he thinks having us pay $1 to reload is in any way a good, or profitable, idea.

I also said at times, not all the time. Reading comprehension, use it.

You can also remember, while your on your trek of presenting shoddy "evidence," that EA was WORSE before John stepped in as CEO; anyone with half a brain is saying that JR's stepping down is very bad for the company. I would also highly doubt you actually know better than people who personally know the damn guy and have said exactly what you bolded in my previous post. 

But please, do continue.

Modifié par redBadger14, 19 mars 2013 - 02:49 .

[LPPrince]

redBadger14 wrote...

Arcian wrote...

redBadger14 wrote...

I'm with Alex on this one. Anyone who personally knows John Riccitello knew that he was a CEO who was a gamer himself, concerned with making decisions that improved games, not necessarily for the best financial interests at times.

His stepping down sort of scares me.

Please tell me you're not being serious.

I don't believe for one second he thinks having us pay $1 to reload is in any way a good, or profitable, idea.

He did just say that on camera. Doesn't look like he was kidding when he said it.

[redBadger14]

LPPrince wrote...

redBadger14 wrote...

Arcian wrote...

redBadger14 wrote...

I'm with Alex on this one. Anyone who personally knows John Riccitello knew that he was a CEO who was a gamer himself, concerned with making decisions that improved games, not necessarily for the best financial interests at times.

His stepping down sort of scares me.

Please tell me you're not being serious.

I don't believe for one second he thinks having us pay $1 to reload is in any way a good, or profitable, idea.

He did just say that on camera. Doesn't look like he was kidding when he said it.

Did you read all of my post? Context. Context is very important. What he said sounded more like "here's an example of microtransactions" and he provided the worst possible example. Yeah, what he said was stupid, but does he actually believe that the particular example is in any way good? No.

[LPPrince]

If he thought it wasn't any good, I can't imagine why he'd use it as an example then.

Especially to stockholders.

[redBadger14]

LPPrince wrote...

If he thought it wasn't any good, I can't imagine why he'd use it as an example then.

Especially to stockholders.

He's a human being. Need I remind you, or myself, how many times we have said something we later come to regret, realize it was stupid, etc? 

[sympathy4sarenreturns]

Wait...there is a microscopic possibility EA could someday absorb CDPR?

Somebody please elaborate on this.

[Overdosing]

sympathy4sarenreturns wrote...

Wait...there is a microscopic possibility EA could someday absorb CDPR?

Somebody please elaborate on this.

I think it's believed that EA has the ability to purchase them, if CDPR ends up putting themselves in the mindsets of wanting to be bought by a publisher who could market their stuff (in this case EA).

There was also a rumor about a year or two ago about EA planning to buy CDPR. This is, for the most part, not true. CDPR uses Origin for its marketing of TW2, but that's all when connecting them to EA entirely through the years.

But I hope this isn't the case. CDPR is doing fine.

And let's hope things change as a new CEO comes (from supposedly this).

[Megaton_Hope]

MassStorm wrote...

Will see but it's actually Frank Gibenau who was really annoying with the online component of EA games.

Just for the record, I was being sarcastic. Big corporations always do this to wash their hands of scandals, it's part of a CEO's job description. Unless the CEO in question was embezzling to buy prostitutes or something, it's rarely an actual solution to the flaws in the corporate culture at that company which produced the problem it's meant to solve.

[TheBlackBaron]

billy the squid wrote...

So they have to recoup money from somewhere. Hence, I'm more pragmatic in where is the money going to come from? We've 3 options. Cost savings, higher rate of returns in a stagnated market (at least until the next gen comes out) and eliminating competition.

This is why I'm rather skeptical that the Day 1 DLC, microtransactions, and always-online DRM are going away. -We- don't like them, but up until now, the've not significantly affected sales figures. SimCity was a really extreme case just because of how poorly it was implemented combined with some horrible PR work - 1.1 million in sales is pretty low compared to what they might have otherwise gotten (based on the fanbase SimCity has built up over the years). And they provide a pretty darn good source of revenue for a company that's firing CEO's because they aren't reaching financial targets. Given the popularity of Steam, image rehabilitation (perhaps starting with the EULA) for Origin and simply waiting out the storm will mitigate the DRM problem.

We might see a reduction in the multiplayer and social networking requirements, though. Unlike the above those don't put money directly into EA's coffers, so they might be sacrificed as a sop to gamers. 

Modifié par TheBlackBaron, 19 mars 2013 - 06:30 .

[felipejiraya]

When Riccitello was signed to be CEO he was on pace with the gaming industry and thinking of the time, he really gave EA a new breath of life in his first couple of years at the job.

Problem is the industry evolved in a much faster pace anyone would predict and he didn't adapt himself to the new paradigm with EA secluding from what the gamers want.

[Jonathan28]

I prefer Riccitello to Kotick that's for sure.

[wafflez]

On a somewhat related note, EA is up for worst company in America again.

[LPPrince]

wafflez wrote...

On a somewhat related note, EA is up for worst company in America again.

Ahh. With SimCity fresh in people's minds...

[Splinter Cell 108]

LPPrince wrote...

wafflez wrote...

On a somewhat related note, EA is up for worst company in America again.

Ahh. With SimCity fresh in people's minds...

If they win again, I will be shocked.  People really have to be angry for EA to beat real bastards like Walmart, AT&T and Apple. 

[Megaton_Hope]

I vote Wal*Mart, personally, they traffic in necessities, slave labor and lies. EA is still just producing a luxury product and doing it in a sketchy way.

[CroGamer002]

Megaton_Hope wrote...

Ah, good, the one person solely responsible for SimCity has stepped down, it's clear sailing from here.

I smell sarcasm on that part.