EA CEO steps down.

http://kotaku.com/5991181/ea-ceo-joh...?post=58368505

Alot of this is due to the fact that EA's NASDAQ stock has been freefallin' since the market collapse of 2008 as well as the negative backlash regarding the execution of Mass Effect 3.


(Sings Free Fallin' by Tom Petty)

EA although the biggest western publisher in the World, is at risk of caving in on itself if it can't produce any more strong selling IPs.


There's a video by CleaverNoobs that talks about the signs that another Game Market crash like 1983-1984 is imminent. I, for once agree with him.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZxXE...4W9kgg&index=8

Peter Moore is likely his replacement.

Kinda a mindfuck, no?

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Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard

Peter Moore is likely his replacement.

Kinda a mindfuck, no?

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Weird Irony since Moore headed Sega of America back in '99 and EA at the time didn't want to have anything to do with Dreamcast.

Also ironic, since 2011, EA has actually licensed SEGA to publish its IPs in Japan.

It would seem that EA is becoming a company weighed down by its own success. Although SimCity was a hit, its not helping EA's stocks.

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Weird Irony since Moore headed Sega of America back in '99 and EA at the time didn't want to have anything to do with Dreamcast.

Also ironic, since 2011, EA has actually licensed SEGA to publish its IPs in Japan.

It would seem that EA is becoming a company weighed down by its own success. Although SimCity was a hit, its not helping EA's stocks.

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What on earth are you talking about? SimCity has been a massive disaster of epic proportions? Not only has the always online DRM been preventing players from playing, the games simulation logic is horribly broken:

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What on earth are you talking about? SimCity has been a massive disaster of epic proportions? Not only has the always online DRM been preventing players from playing, the games simulation logic is horribly broken:

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It sold 1.1 million copies in the last 2 weeks, has become the fastest selling Sim-anything game, and has already recouped development costs.

:( I know...

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Originally Posted by MrSega

http://kotaku.com/5991181/ea-ceo-joh...?post=58368505

Alot of this is due to the fact that EA's NASDAQ stock has been freefallin' since the market collapse of 2008 as well as the negative backlash regarding the execution of Mass Effect 3.


(Sings Free Fallin' by Tom Petty)

EA although the biggest western publisher in the World, is at risk of caving in on itself if it can't produce any more strong selling IPs.


There's a video by CleaverNoobs that talks about the signs that another Game Market crash like 1983-1984 is imminent. I, for once agree with him.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZxXEidtxHk&list=UUnkI-HQM4qix4TWbM4W9kgg&index=8

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ea was also voted worst company of 2011 I think by consumers, worse than all the banks even, can you imagine, how rotten they have become. long gone are the days when trip hawkins ran it.

the gamecrash is not gonna happen. videogaming business is the healthiest around and there are many new emerging markets like latin america. the gamecrash of 1983 only happened in the usa and happened because it was a new busines,s similar to the dot com crash in early 2000, but by now internet business is way bigger than it has ever been

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What on earth are you talking about? SimCity has been a massive disaster of epic proportions? Not only has the always online DRM been preventing players from playing, the games simulation logic is horribly broken:

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I'm talking about profits and sales. Yeah, people HATE it and are offended by the horrible DRM, but it sold and made money.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/simcity...-weeks-6405505

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Originally Posted by MrSega

http://kotaku.com/5991181/ea-ceo-joh...?post=58368505

Alot of this is due to the fact that EA's NASDAQ stock has been freefallin' since the market collapse of 2008 as well as the negative backlash regarding the execution of Mass Effect 3.


(Sings Free Fallin' by Tom Petty)

EA although the biggest western publisher in the World, is at risk of caving in on itself if it can't produce any more strong selling IPs.


There's a video by CleaverNoobs that talks about the signs that another Game Market crash like 1983-1984 is imminent. I, for once agree with him.

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This is fantastic news! The adoption of DRM, the introduction of micro-transactions in games that you've already spent your hard earned money on, and a slew of corporate shinanigans that are an insult to their customers! May this bit of news bring more disaster to their beloved stock and their infamous company!

Now pardon me while I take a few minutes to celebrate with a shot of quality whisky! ;)

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This is fantastic news! The adoption of DRM, the introduction of micro-transactions in games that you've already spent your hard earned money on, and a slew of corporate shinanigans that are an insult to their customers! May this bit of news bring more disaster to their beloved stock and their infamous company!

Now pardon me while I take a few minutes to celebrate with a shot of quality whisky! ;)

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Your DAMN right regarding their stock. It's about to get K.O.d!

If there's ever a company that needs to go away, its EA. Having raped gamers over the years with yearly updates of the same old boring games and now with the Sim City debacle, they've been the worst game company around for a long time (along with the likes of Activision). I won't be shedding a tear if they lose most of their market share.

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It sold 1.1 million copies in the last 2 weeks, has become the fastest selling Sim-anything game, and has already recouped development costs.

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And I bet a majority of that was from pre-orders. Like with Aliens Colonial Marines. I'd be more interested in sales figures in a month's time when word of mouth gets around, I bet it tells a different story. Of course, that's if they're able to patch the game, then they have nothing to worry about.

People keep buying those rehashed shit games though. I don't like EA either but as long as people are buying they are gonna keep making and selling shit games... Not that all EA titles are shit though.

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People keep buying those rehashed shit games though. I don't like EA either but as long as people are buying they are gonna keep making and selling shit games... Not that all EA titles are shit though.

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A major part of the problem with Sim City is how much of it ISN'T rehashed. It's quite a bit different from any other sim city game.


And vastly inferior.

I heard about the online problems with Sim City... but wow, those are some serious logic problems. Apparently a large chunk of the game is coded in Javascript? What happened to decent coders who knew assembly and C++, hardware is so powerful now it's becoming commonplace for it to be grossly underused with inefficient programming. What happened to the art of squeezing every CPU cycle out of a processor to do something useful?
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Anyway on a related note, what is the best Sim City title? I sort of skipped over the series and I'm curious to try some of the older (better) versions.

Actually I too feel this has to do with the whole Sim City issue. The game has flopped. They are selling and making money, but remember, not many people are being able to play it, and EA is not allowing refunds of the game due to the DRM.