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Topic: Sixth seal broken, Fimbulwinter draws near, EA CEO finally gets it. (Read 4047 times)
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Simond
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http://kotaku.com/354350/riccitiello-on-how-not-to-blow-it-the-ea-wayBullfrog, Origin Systems, and Westwood Studios rank as some of the best development houses of all time. They also happen to represent three of EA's most spectacular failures. "We at EA blew it," said EA CEO John Riccitiello at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas this morning, "To a degree, I was involved in those things, so I blew it."
While Riccitiello was proud of his achievements at EA following his return to the company, he warned developers and publishers not to make some of the mistakes the company has made in the past. Those mistakes, he said, involved the stifling of creative talent and their ensuing departure. OK, granted, anyone with half a brain outside of EA management could have told him this over half a dozen years ago, but still.
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Reg
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He doesn't really "get it" at all. He's just found that it's slightly more difficult to buy out development houses now that it's widely known that being bought by EA is the kiss of death. It's costing him money now so he's going to claim that it doesn't happen anymore.
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Jade Falcon
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He doesn't really "get it" at all. He's just found that it's slightly more difficult to buy out development houses now that it's widely known that being bought by EA is the kiss of death. It's costing him money now so he's going to claim that it doesn't happen anymore.
There's any left? |
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Miasma
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I think it's ironic that he said this at a DICE summit. Aren't they currently destroying the venerable Battlefield series by dumbing it down, ripping off the cartoony TF2 graphics and turning it into a free game paid for entirely by a hitherto unseen number of in game ads?
Fuck.
Edit: They actually call the program "Play 4 Free". That's right, 4.
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Velorath
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I think it's ironic that he said this at a DICE summit. Aren't they currently destroying the venerable Battlefield series by dumbing it down, ripping off the cartoony TF2 graphics and turning it into a free game paid for entirely by a hitherto unseen number of in game ads?
No. As they've said several times, that isn't the next game in the main Battlefield series, it's a side project. |
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Nothing in this post represents the views of my current or previous employers.
"Isn't that just like an elf? Brings a spell to a gun fight."
"Sci-Fi writers don't invent the future, they market it."
- Henry Cobb
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LK
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Stormwaltz is no longer an employee of Bioware studios. We wish him the best of luck in all his future endeavors.  |
"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Aez
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He doesn't really "get it" at all. He's just found that it's slightly more difficult to buy out development houses now that it's widely known that being bought by EA is the kiss of death. It's costing him money now so he's going to claim that it doesn't happen anymore.
Touche. It's incredible that so many douches achieve leadership positions with such simple tactics. Cry until something happen, lie if it backfires. |
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Stormwaltz
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Stormwaltz is no longer an employee of Bioware studios. We wish him the best of luck in all his future endeavors. Are you former BW? Because damn if that's not the neutral cut & paste HR announcement whenever someone leaves. |
Nothing in this post represents the views of my current or previous employers.
"Isn't that just like an elf? Brings a spell to a gun fight."
"Sci-Fi writers don't invent the future, they market it."
- Henry Cobb
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LK
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Nah, but I'm current something else.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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NiX
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Are you former BW? Because damn if that's not the neutral cut & paste HR announcement whenever someone leaves.
I'm taking HR and it's sad that they actually teach us to write that. |
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Azazel
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I frequent a wrestling forum now and then, and that's pretty much word-for-word the line that most wrestlers get on the WWE website when they're canned.
Well, the ones who leave on good-to-neutral terms.
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Margalis
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Strangely enough I was thinking the exact same thing.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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LK
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Bad terms doesn't get the second part.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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