EA clarifies recent offline games comment

Like all director and VP's and everything at this time of big sales. They will tell you what you want to hear just so they get more presales and bigger hype. After release you will be what lies were really told on both sides.

OMFG biggest Backpedal in history!!!!

Did he have a stroke or sth?

Yeah there will be confusion when you make a statement, then backpedal and say something totally different in a matter of days.

You keep being afraid EA, we dog-piled Microsoft and we're coming after you next! xD

Looks like EA is pulling a Microsoft...releasing a statement that is undesirable to the consumer, then "clarifying" with a more ambiguous statement.

Yeah, I can see why these two companies partnered together for the xbone.

You can tell that Peter used to work for Microsoft... :p

EA happened...

Thought we were about to have another Sims City disaster on our hands.

Wow an EA exec who said one thing then completely backpedaled and said the exact opposite. I'm sure that will never happen again and we can actually trust what this guys says....<giggle>

Offline "experiences" mean that nothing can be experienced offline. They need to choose their words more carefully.

I can play madden for free?

Nothing to clarify here Mr. Moore. Your company, more then likely saw all the negative backlash, so to ensure you keep getting money from your mindless fanbase, you are doing damage control.

Yeah sleep with one eye open around EA.

So Peter Moore is saying that he lied to our fucking faces before?

What a piece of human garbage, babbling whatever he thinks people want to hear.

No EA, whats confusing is why you think that and continue to implement the practice in the first play. That's what is confusing.

I love how single player games are now an optional 'mode'

EA, committed to doing as many 180s as Microsoft!

... aside from BF3, I haven't bought a EA game in years, nor have Origin on my machines. I can live without you, Peter Moore. (I bought BF3 for the SP part, played it once and that was that; was curious about the Frostbite2 engine & DX11 implementation by @repi & DICE).

I actually believe that he misspoke. I really do. But here's the thing I don't get:

How. Can. You. Be. That. Stupid. ?

Suggesting only-online or always-online or required internet or anything of the sort is TOXIC in the video game industry right now. Look at Diablo III. Look at EA's OWN GAME, SimCity, and how awfully that went and how much crap they had to eat over the online requirements. Look at the Xbone and the public backlash over Xbone-phone-home until Microsoft pulled the "feature".

So not only did he misspeak, but he literally took the most hated thing about trends in video gaming AND SUGGESTED IT WAS THEIR NEW BUSINESS MODEL. It's a topic you should be staying as far away from as possible, so he wrote it in the sky in neon lights, and he didn't even NEED TO.

How can you be so stupid?

EA seriously thinks they are the most important company in gaming

Peter Moore killed the dreamcast.

my god the man acts like a free to play command and conquer is a good thing!!

next you know we will be getting a major presser announcing the the release of KKOTOR (Kinect Knights of the Old Republic) and how great it is that its brought to millions free to play

EA isn't much into giving gamers what they want.

What'd I tell you? People say things that are just for marketing purposes then have to backtrack on said statements. No surprises here.

In Plants vs Zombies 2, you don't get any stars for finishing level the first time. (Which is needed to unlock the next world). There's an option of either unlocking the world via real money ($5) or grind through the levels again for stars. You only get a few stars per level and you usually need 15 or more stars to unlock.

So yea, I can reallyyyyyyyyyyy see the appeal of free-to-play games. FROM EA NO LESS............-_-

EA: "No offline modes. Ok, offline modes. But we're making everything free-to-play. Ok, no we're not. Whatever we said a few days ago, that's exactly what we're not going to do anymore. What were we talking about again?"