Timing of EA CEO resignation 'makes sense' says analyst

John "The Dickhead" Dicketiello.

I hope this resignation means an end between the EA and Nintendo feud.

    Anyways maybe they can start making mvp baseball again

EA can view gamers as an exploitable commodity all they want, just so long as they remember that they are a *thinking* commodity. Trying to appeal to as many people as possible and price gouging your customers with mirco-transactions and charging them for extra content that was blatantly cut from the finished product may be profitable for now, but I doubt that it's a sustainable business model. One thing that EA never really seems to take into consideration is their own credibility and the credibility of their franchises, which is quickly going down the drain, I think, and I think there will come a breaking point where people won't be willing to go along with it anymore.

What I'm getting at here is that I hope one day EA gets a CEO who thinks that, yes, it's our job to be as profitable as possible, but keeping the credibility of our games is an important aspect of ensuring that our customers will keep coming back.

Well he's leaving with quite the trophy rack: Dead space, Crysis, Maxis and Bioware all choked to death by corporate influence. he can hang them on his wall and remember all the good times he had bleeding money out of gamer's pockets.

To John Retardetello, "Wipe that smug look on your face and rid us of your stupidity"

the problem is the current CEO wasnt gouging enough, id like to think somebody who would focus on quality would come, but thats prolly unlikely as it would take awhile to make a quality product and these people are only concerned in making money during theyre time as CEO

Well hopefully many of the dumb decisions made by EA in recent years will be rectified. If not, then there was no point in the change.

maybe EA can try the Valve apporch.... and everyone that works there is an equal :D

AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHAH LAOLAOOKKAHAHAHAHHOHOH ...ahhhhhhh... wow could not say that with a straight face.

 as if ....

I hope Peter Moore takes the position. 

You know what I would love to happen?  A group of people storm the EA headquarters, take everybody hostage and make the families pay micro-transactions for their release.  Plan out a couple pages of bundle options, go to town with that shit.

Good riddance, but I doubt the replacement will be much btter.

That dude bought 500000$ of personal stocks two months ago, that made the stock raise 4$ because of that and the simcity hype, and then it takes the safety boat with its big bonus... here for you investors -8% today!

DRM is more damaging to companies than piracy

http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/19/team-meat-drm-is-more-damaging-to-companies-than-piracy-says-refenes/

so the mad idea of using a Freemium  business model for all their games is over now??

I bet that former EA CEO did get such a great salary package that he can afford all the microtransactions that EA will come up with in the 100 000 years.

Hopefully they find a CEO who is not afraid to clean house, because that's what is truly needed. The whole big corporation mentality needs to go. Get back to basics (listening to the consumer, treat them with respect). I mean honestly, decisions like always-on DRM with a game like Simcity is a dreadful idea.

Being an Analyst sounds like an easy job. You get paid to either state the obvious or make up random bullshit and because you have an official name, people are going to believe it.

I'm sick of seeing "*insert statement*..says analyst".

There is always another potential fat-cat waiting in line.

EA...Please F**K OFF!

All I wanted was a new SimCity game after all of these years...all I got was a soundtrack (Chris Tilton's work is genius...and besides it's DRM free...lol). Goes great with SimCity 4 though.

damn that would have been cool if ray myzuka couldve been next in line

Its become comical to see what ea will do next to screw us over.

Its almost popcorn worthy

Report: Analyst 'not surprised' how accurate Analysts can be when talking after the fact.

would be nice 1 day to see a title of an article that says;

Timing of EA file for bankruptcy 'makes sense' says analyst.

"In another amazing development EA announces they have removed the customer feedback firewall from their email systems and are suprised that over the past few years several people have written expressing dissatisfaction with some of their products." *yawn*

Pi$$ off and dont join another game company, the industry can do without you.

Frank Gibeau should be fired for every drastic changes in established IPs like dead space.

Fired for being to soft on gamers not enough micros & DLC  and not charging for server time or to use origin. 

THE board of directors also want to now charge for each kill in multiplayer 

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