DeaDRabbiT said:
Adept Mechanicus said:
Ding dong, the witch is dead. I don't think this is going to lead to a massive shakeup in corporate policy. A CEO is elected by the shareholders, after all.
Except that with all their "Digital revenues" their profits are tanking. I guess they are learning real fast that short profits aren't worth long losses.
I wouldn't be so pessimistic. It's almost the wild wild west right now with gaming, they are trying to push the limits of what they can get away with, and luckily the game enthusiasts out there are such a vocal bunch that the people that make our entertainment are getting the picture.
Be fair, give us good value, and don't sell us broken shit, and we will give you the monies.
Given that all of that stuff you just mentioned is pretty much century-old business wisdom, "fast" isn't the word I'd use. Not at all.
And given the general track record of EA, all this "pessimism" really is just awareness to the cold, hard facts, something I've been waiting to awaken among gamers for YEARS. So I think we all know that the next thought from EA's side won't be
"Okay, we realized that we've been behaving like short-sighted money-grubbing bastards, alienating our customers by treating them like retarded money-bags, so we vow to change our ways",
but rather
"Okay, we apparantly didn't squeeze our programmers' and our customers' necks hard enough, since all our foolproof succesful business strategies didn't make us enough money. Obviously the game market is tougher than even we thought, so all we need to do is be even more ruthless. Because we have a lot of money, our concepts can't be wrong!"
So yes, I'm waiting for the next slimey RP-Agent telling us that EA will take on a "new, fesh direction" and usher in a new era of "compelling and innovative games". And of course the inevitable slide of drool-monkeys who actually believe that.
