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 On 03/20/2013 at 08:21 PM by V4Viewtiful See More From This User » |
I won't bore you on the deatils but needless to say under Riccitiello EA have been losing more and more money and some suspect the Sim City shite was the last straw, so instead of waiting to be fired filed his resignation and accepted full blame.
"It currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued to the Street, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago. And for that, I am 100 percent accountable."
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The chances are him leaving won't change a damn thing, but with the BS business practices he let go by on his watch, it doesn't surprise me. The irony is when he first started this job he expressed remorse for what they are ten times worse at doing now.
What do you guys think? Happy, not bother, poets can't express you glee?
This is V saying "Can you, feel a, brand new day?!"
He was pretty terrible at his job, but let's not confuse him with Bobby Kotick.
Side-note: I find it funny that C.E.O.s in this billion dollar industry never look like they've ever played a game. Car salesmen or stockbrokers, yeah; video games not so much. It's like they've not heard the saying "finger on the pulse of society". Now I'm ranting.
It's not even that, it's that they don't understand the games industry, they're taking advantage with old wolrd thinking, and it's backfiring hell i'm willing to bet half of them haven't played a modern game 
EA needs to revamp strip down and restructure there whole way of doing things or they will go under in 4 years, people are sick of EAs sneaky grab for the almighty buck and its going to bite them in the ass cause it isnt like 2K cant handle our sports games and probable do a way better job.
Agreed, things can't go on as they have with EA (and by proxy Activition) because i don't want a market crash to rival Atari. Realistically all that'll happen is what they;ve already been doing, destroy Developers but hopefully they'll be picked up by other publishers.
Who knows? They'er like sharks teeth, lose one out of touch non-gamer upper management type and he'll likely get replaced with a photo copy of himself. This is the problem with all big companies, the guys at the top are completely clueless as to what goes on at the bottom of the chain. They make a lot of bad decisions based on nothing but numbers. Penny wise but dollar foolish as my Grandma would say.
Well put, i suppose change will only come when they lose more money and stop lying to the public -- Actually on that note shouldn't they be procecuted for that? saying it only works with DRM only less than a week later a hack comes to show them up. Making people use a service they don't need with no other option.
What a joke!
My freind who,s a rep for Ea said it was the single worse disaster in EA history.
And everyone else saw it coming 
I'm actually glad that launch is being seen as a massive failure that made a CEO quit, it helps keep online-only games at bay.
For now at least, they'll just do something else to attempt to seize control over their customers.
But EA are so truely dumb, after the news Viceral Games where axed Peter Moore and EA attacked the website for running the story and calling them lies conveniently forgettinbg that that same site gave their story to EA toguve them a chance to refute the claims.
They're almost self-sabotaging.at this point
He is the reason that Mirror's Edge and Dead Space existed. He insisted on new IPs and that is what they established. It is odd that its also the direction that THQ went as well with Darksiders, Homefront, and such but it didn't help them.
The irony is he started out strong then devolved into anti consumerist activities. Darksider and Homefront didn't suffer from being new IPs I can tell you that much. DeadSpace was a critical success and wasn't hugely profitable but they made enough to go on. But 2 and 3 was EA being EA with there unrealistic expectations for a niche genre.
Homefront didn't suffer from being a new IP? They marketed the hell out of it but nobody was interested. It sold poorly. New IPs never sale as well as established franchises. Call of Duty, Mario titles, Assassin's Creed and so on get constant sequels because of their success. THQ put everything out there for Homefront and Udraw. I don't know what you mean by anti consumerist activities. THQ was known for constant licenses titles and then it branched out and that is when it hurt them.
i don't count Homefront because that's a shooter, That has to compete with the like of Call of Duty, and Battlefront that's always risky. THQ had problems before they branched out actually in fact by focussing on Licenses they already put themselves at risk.
So you aren't wrong but with THQ it was a self fulilling prophecy
I dont know when exactly when they went in red but I didn't start hearing about it until they focused away from license titles which was always there thing. Its too bad. I think its horrible timing. I think the South Park title might be great. The next Metro title sounds awesome, and the sequel of Homefront has potential with Crytek working on it. So sad. Good discussion :)
Oh and to add, Company of Heroes 2. Geez, the timing was terrible.
agreed, truely a case of poor management
It's kind of sad. Aka, this person seemed to start out with the best intentions but time spent in the "corporate machine" might have changed him or clouded his better judgement. Maybe this can be a learning experience for the guy?
I doubt it very much, but on the other thing i do suspect he was somewhat corrupted by EAs growing degenerate business practices till he himself became a pioneer. I just hope the new guy is better
I hope that he ends up where he deserves to be. I understand K-Mart is hiring! With his experience I'm sure he could become assistant manager in no time.
I don't think K-Mart would like to ruin their Image
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