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John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Electronic Arts. [Resignation/Farewell Letters]

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Foffy

Banned
Gooster said:
heh

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
 
Barakov

Barakov

Member
infinityBCRT said:
Hoooly. SimCity the final straw? Or was this strategically timed to conincide with the announcement of their next-gen games starting with BF4 so that Peter Moore could be the new face of EA for the next generation?
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I'd say it's more than likely a combination of both of these. As well as some of the other bone headed decisions he's made.
 
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FullMetalx117

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You know there is the other perspective:

What if Riccitiello was the one who was trying to hinder EA's transition into the pay to reload model? He was probably an old school guy who wanted the old school way of paying for games. Therefore, the rest of EA heads and investors wanted him out since they obviously want to embrace their newer direction. With the success with SimCity and its DRM the rest of the heads are probably optimistic of this model.

Halt the celebrations, things will get worse.
 
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Tempy

don't ask me for codes
TouchMyBox said:
Oh shit...

The new CEO could look at the costs of making Origin and say "why are we doing this again when we could just use steam and sell more copies?".

I wanna believe.
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I think the idea is that with their own service all the profits go to them directly, without a cut to Valve. I'm not sure the move to use Origin instead of Steam was an unprofitable one though.
 
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flyover

Member
Paging Neil Young. No, not the musician. The one who was an exec at EA for years, founded (and sold) ngmoco, and left that company a few months back. Makes perfect sense to me.

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Jac_Solar

Member
FullMetalx117 said:
You know there is the other perspective:

What if Riccitiello was the one who was trying to hinder EA's transition into the pay to reload model? He was probably an old school guy who wanted the old school way of paying for games. Therefore, the rest of EA heads and investors wanted him out since they obviously want to embrace their newer direction. With the success with SimCity and its DRM the rest of the heads are probably optimistic of this model.

Halt the celebrations, things will get worse.
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I was a bit surprised when I heard the audio recording of him talking about the reload model in such blatant, exact terms. I was like, why isn't he garbling the message like most head of companies would have done for such an extreme anti consumer tactic?
 
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cuyahoga

Dudebro, My Shit is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It's Straight-Up Dawg Time
Derrick01 said:
We need a long list of his many "accomplishments" now.

-Bought and crushed Pandemic and participated in Bioware's downfall
-Started project 10 dollar and other anti-consumer tactics
-SimCity fiasco
-The old republic bombing, perhaps the most expensive bust ever
-Pulled out of Steam and started a competing service that no one wanted and is worse in every way

People can add to it. There are literally too many to list for just me.
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Let me see:
-Henry Hatsworth
-Brutal Legend
-Mirror's Edge
-Boom Blox
-Boom Blox 2
-Skate
-NFS Shift

There was a good two year stretch where EA was doing some great stuff. Too bad shareholders revolted.
 
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Chinner

Banned
this doesn't make sense, didn't simcity just sell 1.1 million copies and was a huge success according to videogame journalists?
 
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Biggzy

Member
Just seen the news. I can't say I am surprised as the writing has been on the wall for some time now and with a new generation of consoles on the horizon now is the perfect time to get a CEO in.
 
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Derrick01

Banned
FullMetalx117 said:
You know there is the other perspective:

What if Riccitiello was the one who was trying to hinder EA's transition into the pay to reload model? He was probably an old school guy who wanted the old school way of paying for games. Therefore, the rest of EA heads and investors wanted him out since they obviously want to embrace their newer direction. With the success with SimCity and its DRM the rest of the heads are probably optimistic of this model.

Halt the celebrations, things will get worse.
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You give Riccitiello too much credit. He's probably the single person most responsible for most of the shitty things that have happened to this industry in the last 6-7 years. That's including from a creative point of view too since everything EA releases is geared towards the casual/social gamer or the stereotypical dudebro we love to make fun of so much. Safe, homogeneous, mass market AAA shooters/racers/sports games.
 
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jcm

Member
Derrick01 said:
We need a long list of his many "accomplishments" now.

-Bought and crushed Pandemic and participated in Bioware's downfall
-Started project 10 dollar and other anti-consumer tactics
-SimCity fiasco
-The old republic bombing, perhaps the most expensive bust ever
-Pulled out of Steam and started a competing service that no one wanted and is worse in every way

People can add to it. There are literally too many to list for just me.
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Focused on game quality, thought that higher metacritic ratings would lead to higher profits.

I think a lot of us are going to like the new EA even less than the old one.
 
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