EA CEO admits "We Blew It"

[The Red Guy]

LAS VEGAS -- Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello is very sorry about what happened to Bullfrog. And Westwood. And Origin Systems.

""We at EA blew it, and to a degree I was involved in these things, so I blew it."

In his presentation kicking off the final day of the DICE Summit, the head of the videogame superpublisher acknowledged that his company's previous strategy of acquiring talented developers just didn't work. But these days, even as EA and its competitors swallow up more and more developers in the race towards consolidation, Riccitiello thinks things are working out right with companies like Bioware and Maxis, by letting them keep their corporate culture.

More in: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/riccitiello.html

[Pie]

EA Decided that the world can play the new Moh wii game online EXCEPT Australia, because they were to lazy to set up a server here.
Boycott ftw.
Ea reminds me of fox, Except fox fucks up constantly, Biased pricks.
It's like EA just thought they'd buy out every good developer on the planet and tell them to make remakes, I mean what is the difference between Fifa 08 and fifa 07, A fucking year so what.
Football is still football.

[The Bone Collector]

my god... EA are slippery bastards. They really need to pull it outta their asses so more Aussies can play their games...

[bja888]

The only people that is news to is EA's investors.

"The command and conquer model," he said, "doesn't work. If you think you're going to buy a developer and put your name on the label... you're making a profound mistake."

I could of told them that without killing a franchise.