EA CEO John Riccitiello Resigns - UPDATED

[FinalDream]

So they're going for mass appeal with a new CEO - shocker

 

[cjspyres]

So they're going for mass appeal with a new CEO - shocker

Meanwhile, we all know that the new "CEO" is just a figurehead. Really, in the deep, dark, abandoned offices of EA's black soul (HQ), John Riccitiello still pulls the strings. Making the new figurehead continue on with his plans of no Single-player, and microtransactions. Slowly conforming the rest of the gamers...slowly....slowly. I mean, cause when the person that the people love agree, it's right....right?


Ah, just kidding...or am I? DUN! DUN! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

 

[mgirl]

EA even worked with motherfucking Valve for a short period of time. Don't believe me? Look at this box
More specifically, the lower right-hand corner. Those logos were together on every PS3 case of The Orange Box, including mine. Something happened after 2008. Something bad. I hope now that they try and fix it.

Weren't they just the distributors for console versions of Valve games? I'm not so sure they really 'worked' together.

People are celebrating a lot but I'd be surprised if EA will change at all. He'll just be replaced by someone who is much the same. Or maybe I'm just pessimistic, who knows.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

I'm getting the feeling he did this because he had had enough of hearing people ***** 24-7 (even if the SimCity launch sucked)

 

[Quiotu]

I feel like quoting a pornographic line from Winston Wolf... you all know the one I'm talking about. That's how I feel about this.

It's nice... probably doesn't fix the problem though. The only good part about this is that the Board of Directors should only be concerned about making money. If they're smart, they'll realize that what they've been doing in the last 3 or 4 years does NOT make money long term. Find someone who knows how to make money long term, and they'll be fine. But like someone else said... if they have a Board full of idiots, I won't particularly miss this giant pimple on the buttocks of game publishing if it pops.

 

[Something Amyss]

that was unexpected and good news, his policies have basically alienated gamers and come close to destroying EA

The hyperbole is strong with this one...

Seriously, policies probably won't change and EA will continue to be on the bring of destruction for as long as gamers continue to wax a grudge. They will still keep moving on, though.

 

[Frezzato]

Brilliant. I can't wait till they re-hire him in 2016, considering they fired him in 2004 and re-hired him in 2007.
Yes, I can haz wikipedia.


I'm a pretty laid back person here on the forums, but believe me when I say not to let the door hit your ass on the way out.

 

[cynicalsaint1]

EA's new CEO will be determined by where they preordered from.

 

[NortherWolf]

Yay!
A completely unimportant suit is removed, leaving a company that will be as shitty as ever and people think it'll change anything!
Sorry, I'll be in the Bitterness Corner. EA won't change to something "good" because I seriously doubt they ever were "good".

 

[sammysoso]

Could it have something to do with the SimCity mess? Not that it affected EA's share price much.

Oh well, new CEO probably won't mean new company vision

I doubt SimCity had anything to do with this, it looks like that is going to turn a profit. Convenient(?) timing I guess.

This has been coming ever since SWTOR flopped. That was his big project, which a significant percentage of EA's resources was dedicated to. When it didn't earn the astronomical amount of money it needed to, he was done. It's just taken this long to get the transition worked out.

 

[Frezzato]

...It's much easier to blame an individual for a companies failures rather than admit the core policies are wrong.

Well said, Legion. Well said.

That statement applies to most companies I think, big or small.

 

[Zydrate]

Shortcomings in finances?
So basically, "I didn't piss enough people off?"

 

[VladG]

Ave! Duci novo, similis duci seneci


I am rather curious to know exactly how much influence John Riccitiello has had over EA's craptacular decisions.

 

[fix-the-spade]

On a side note, can someone please explain to me what everyone's objection to Project Ten Dollar is

Because it's the same as online pass?

Whilst I know that if you get into the nitty gritty, online pass covers multi player, P$10 usually covered 'extra' content like on disc dlc and ancillary guff, but they covered the same principle. More specifically the principle Riccitiello outlined in his 'the game you bought was the game you got' speech. It was/is just another arbitrary paywall they put in to hold people who buy second hand to ransom, another expression of EA's nickle and dime for everything it can approach.


Cpatchaoetic justice, not sure if serious Mr Captcha.

 

[synobal]

I really doubt a change in CEOs is going to matter.

 

[Beryl77]

Oh, did he also do it so that he can spend more time with his family and maybe pursue other interests?

 

[Aikayai]

I'd celebrate, but then I realized that when a demon is killed another takes his place. Only time will tell...