EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down, No Replacement Yet

[davewolfgang]

I hope this is because of SimCity.

I do too, and that they will fix the off-line play. One of the best games I've found to play WHILE NO INTERNET is available is SimCity (I have 3000, and 4 installed on my laptop).

 

[kcorp2003]

if i become the CEO. i'll destroy origin and make all EA games exclusive to steam and build a strong partnership.

 

[Guest]

The only thing he was passionate about was milking consumers with countless DLCs and idiotic DRM. EA has lost nothing of value. I don't expect the next CEO to be any better, it's all about money for EA.

 

[shikamaru31789]

One down, one to go. Bobby Kotick, resign already!!!!

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]davewolfgang[/nom]I do too, and that they will fix the off-line play. One of the best games I've found to play WHILE NO INTERNET is available is SimCity (I have 3000, and 4 installed on my laptop).[/citation]

Give SC4 multicore or better yet GPU computing support, better mod support, modernized graphics (SC4 doesn't support anti-aliasing), and fix the eternal commuter bug...

And you have a worthy SC game.

 

[BriboCN]

You guys are funny. Nearly anyone else in his position would have done the exact same thing. If he is the enemy you are all going to hate the future.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]BriboCN[/nom]You guys are funny. Nearly anyone else in his position would have done the exact same thing. If he is the enemy you are all going to hate the future.[/citation]

dystopian wasteland here we come.

[citation][nom]shikamaru31789[/nom]One down, one to go. Bobby Kotick, resign already!!!![/citation]
[citation][nom]Matt34533[/nom]Happy birthday to me! This is my best present of all, now maybe EA can cut the crap and start making quality games with minimal DRM again.[/citation]
[citation][nom]Memnarchon[/nom]Do we have Xmas today? At last some good news from the gaming industry!...[/citation]
[citation][nom]proxy711[/nom]Ya he has moved on to a great opportunity called unemployment.[/citation]

HOW cant you see this as possibly the WORST thing to happen in gaming sense et?
once you get to a high position in a major company, YOU FAIL UP
you get better jobs and people still higher you even if you tank a company

with him free from ea he could INFECT ANY CURRENT PUBLISHER

 

[wildkitten]

Here's to some good news and that this may mean SimCity will get an offline player mode.

Now that EA's fired a CEO for making their "career" customers mad, let's hope Vivendi's board is watching and get's rid of Bobby Kotick over at ActiBlizz. Gamers could truly rejoice then.

 

[cats_Paw]

"We appreciate John's leadership and the many important strategic initiatives he has driven for the Company".
As in, we thank him for making us rich at the cost of our consumers ?

 

[janetonly42]

Alternate headline "CEO of EA fired for Sim City botch up."

 

[fimbulvinter]

[citation][nom]skit75[/nom]I remember playing D&D Forgotten realms on my 386. DRM at the time consisted of: Turn to page 17 of the manual and type the 4th word in the second paragraph.... Thank you for choosing our product.[/citation]

Or those puzzle wheels you had to do every so often to continue playing. We old.

 

[back_by_demand]

They should replace him with an anvil
...
Likely to continue taking a beating but be marginally less dense

 

[dalethepcman]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom] HOW cant you see this as possibly the WORST thing to happen in gaming sense et?once you get to a high position in a major company, YOU FAIL UP you get better jobs and people still higher you even if you tank a company with him free from ea he could INFECT ANY CURRENT PUBLISHER[/citation]

I think you misunderstand. What game company is looking for a new CEO aside from EA? Realistically, Tim Cook, and Steve Balmer are the only other Technology software CEO that their companies "may" be int he market to replace, and I see this guy tanking either one of them.

Honestly, since EA saw that a football fan/gamer will buy the same crap every year as long as they change the title to "Madden 2014" and modify the names of players on the roster, they assumed all gamers were as intelligent as the tailgating Budweiser drinking redneck, and have treated all their IP's with the lowest common denominator as their target audience.

Honestly I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing until a replacement has been selected. Do you prefer the Devil you know, or the one you don't. I prefer the one I know, because at least we know what to expect....