EA Wants Balance Between Sony and Microsoft

[Vivid Kazumi]

I'm starting to question the thescapist community intellectual capacity when some are rooting for a sony monopoly(given any monopoly(given any monopoly is bad PERIOD).The worst part of MS droping out of the console race would be the game prices shooting up to 70-90 in american dollars.

 

[jedikv]

EA: "Competition is great, that's why we are monopolizing all the brands and teams exclusively for our sports games..."

 

[zefiris]

So, does that mean EA disbands as a company and reinstates the other studios they swallowed and then destroyed?

 

[Genocidicles]

I'm starting to question the thescapist community intellectual capacity when some are rooting for a sony monopoly(given any monopoly(given any monopoly is bad PERIOD).The worst part of MS droping out of the console race would be the game prices shooting up to 70-90 in american dollars.

It wouldn't be a monopoly if the xbone failed though. There is still the Wii U and PCs to compete with the PS4.

 

[Lady Larunai]

Who needs Microsoft? Let's get Nintendo back into the running.

Or, better yet, tell Microsoft to take the bench. Who wants to nominate Sega? Dreamcast 2 with Shenmue III?

I'm all for sega getting their crown back and becoming the 3rd major console

All hail the Sega Sonic box! (I just want a blue console)

 

[XX Y XY]

LOL. Seems fairly obvious to me that this guy is just butthurt because Sony decided not to go along with the "fuck the consumer" gameplan that they were hoping for. Remember how EA has apologized for being asshats and cramming DRM and online passes down our throats and admitting they made a mistake..? Does anyone honestly believe they would have done that if they hadn't anticipated next gen's console manufacturers to impose this DRM for them and take the heat off of them. Hell to the no! Things didn't go exactly EA's way so now they're crying foul. That's all this bullshit PR statement is about. He may have hid it in the guise of a factual argument that competition is good for markets but a polished turd is still a turd and you can smell the bullshit wafting off this a mile away. But seriously, it's EA. What do you expect?

 

[LoLife]

Sounds like someone bet on the wrong horse and now worried he's going to loose the house. I find it funny EA of all people complaining of an monopoly.

QFT

I agree, EA put their eggs in MS basket & now they want to put a load into Sony's due to the gamer backlash. EA cannot talk about competition since it is one of biggest monopolist entities in the game publishing industry which buys out the competition and guts it.

 

[geizr]

I agree, competition in the market-place is a good thing. However, competition is not possible when one company's competitors prove so grotesquely inept. The market is not going to just throw money at a competing product that is so clearly unsuitable to the market's purposes and interest just for the sake of maintaining competition; company's are not altruistic and neither is the market at large. If you want Microsoft to be a competitor to Sony, tell Microsoft to stop fucking itself with a telephone coated in glass, iron spikes, and wasabi sauce. If you want Nintendo to be a competitor to Sony, tell Nintendo to step-up to the plate and actually DO SOMETHING. Simply wishing for one company to not dominate the market does not nothing; you have to get its competitors to stop sucking so much.

(Where in the whole of the fucking Universe do game companies find these executives? Are common sense and cognitive ability surgically removed when one becomes a corporate executive?)

 

[geizr]

LOL. Seems fairly obvious to me that this guy is just butthurt because Sony decided not to go along with the "fuck the consumer" gameplan that they were hoping for. Remember how EA has apologized for being asshats and cramming DRM and online passes down our throats and admitting they made a mistake..? Does anyone honestly believe they would have done that if they hadn't anticipated next gen's console manufacturers to impose this DRM for them and take the heat off of them. Hell to the no! Things didn't go exactly EA's way so now they're crying foul. That's all this bullshit PR statement is about. He may have hid it in the guise of a factual argument that competition is good for markets but a polished turd is still a turd and you can smell the bullshit wafting off this a mile away. But seriously, it's EA. What do you expect?

That's a good point, one I didn't realize myself (and normally I do see through these sort of double-speak shenanigans). EA probably was hoping that gamers would just jump on the MS console just because and be locked into throwing tons of money at EA. But, EA wasn't counting on the fact the market is not as stupid as they were hoping and that people would simply decide not to buy it.

Once again, a company only hears and understands two sounds, the creak of your wallet opening and the slap of your wallet closing; all other sounds are noise to be ignored. EA clearly heard the slap of many, many wallets closing, and, consequently, being that is one of the only two sounds companies (especially ones like EA) hear and understand, they are forced to respond. Although, one has to wonder, then, what the hell's going on at Microsoft. Do they not hear and understand the slap, or have they become so stupidly drunk on their own arrogance that even the two sounds have lost meaning (in which case, the only thing left for them is the wake-up call when they get sodomized by the telephone pole of reality)?

 

[GAunderrated]

He wants a "balance" and yet Titanfall is excluding the PS4 specifically.

He wants "balance" and yet Xbone is getting exclusive early access to BF4 expansions.

To me, this sounds a lot like "Hey, no fair! Xbox is getting beat up too much"

This is 100% what it is. EA is just pissy that Microsoft dropped the ball royally and they can't fuck over the consumer as much as they originally wanted. They have to support the Ps4 a lot more than they wanted too.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Finally, Peter Moore says something smart.

Too bad he's basically Nixon in China.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I just decoded Peter Moore's innocent looking message. The payload translates thusly:

Sony said DRM sucks, made fun of it. We at EA don't like that much. Bomb them into submission.

 

[Namehere]

EA doesn't want balance. It didn't just ask the market to 'adjust itself'. It just asked for a bailout - it just tried to crowd source the X-Bone! And why? Because it's no secret EA supports X-Bone's policies on DRM and resale and god knows what other anti-consumer idea they come up with next. That said, if X-Bone suffers dies trying to do that, it would prove an impossible model. On the other hand, if there were no alternative because Sony went along with X-Bone, at least in a little of what X-Bone is proposing, in the next generation they'd gain more ground instead of be at square one with this ridiculous anti-consumer nonsense. That's what I think.

 

[xPixelatedx]

Well considering everything "nice" or "reasonable" EA has said recently has all turned out to be an elaborate, evil scheme... I am all for a Sony dominated world. It will be a good thing to have Microsoft gone; I am sure of it now more then ever knowing EA disagrees.

 

[Camaranth]

Wait wait wait...did EA just criticize having a monopoly?

And exactly what has your company been doing since it's conception?


it hurts. Even the captcha is feeling the pain.

 

[Frezzato]

God, you know it's bad for Microsoft when the most hated company in America comes to provide moral support.

You've shown your hand, Mr. Moore. The timing of your statement is too close to the public spanking that the Xbox One is getting. You're obviously concerned about the strategic partnership between EA and Microsoft.

I agree with you though, too much dominance is bad for business, which is exactly why I want EA to fail completely. Leave EA to burn, allowing the studios and devs to rise from your ashes, just as Volition found life after THQ. Only then will Bioware and Maxis be free of your clutches.

 

[faefrost]

It would be a little easier to take this as the thoughtful words of a concerned third party if EA hadn't so recently been happy to fire full broadside salvos at Nintendo. My more cynical side wonders if they hadn't been looking forward to a handy replacement for online passes and are coming to realize that the popular drubbing Microsoft is taking might put a kibbosh on that plan.

This! No really this competition thing would be more credible if EA hadn't admitted to having no WiiU titles in development. Healthy competition often means someone loses and a new opponent steps up to the plate. And EA isn't a disinterested party here. Hey are the Vegas gambler, betting it all on said boxing match. They are also fearful as they seem to be a much more dominant presence in XBox publishers than they are over in SONYs broader spectrum.

 

[Vivid Kazumi]

I'm starting to question the thescapist community intellectual capacity when some are rooting for a sony monopoly(given any monopoly(given any monopoly is bad PERIOD).The worst part of MS droping out of the console race would be the game prices shooting up to 70-90 in american dollars.

It wouldn't be a monopoly if the xbone failed though. There is still the Wii U and PCs to compete with the PS4.

PCs are not competiting with the consoles.they never have,PCs compete with other PCs brand's.If the x1 fails then sony will have the 3rd party monopoly that they had last generations then turn back to there asshole way's.

 

[Belated]

"I want them to be equal."
Translation: "I want Sony to adopt the same asshole policies Microsoft does."

Come on, we all know that's what he really means. He's the CEO of EA. Not the CEO of Valve, not the CEO of Gearbox, not that gift from God the CEO of Majong. He's the CEO of EA. EA hates used games and loves DRM. When he says he wants the companies to be on an equal level, he means that he wishes Sony would also disable used games, so EA can finally be rid of them.

Competition is important, but this man doesn't seem to truly understand why. What Sony is doing right now is competition. We need competition to force companies to not suck. We need competition to encourage companies to do things that the consumers actually like, instead of forcing us to settle for something we don't approve of. This is what's supposed to happen in competition. One company does something terrible that consumers don't approve of, and a second, competing company decides not to do those things in order to get a leg up, which eventually forces the first company to follow suit just to remain on equal ground. This is exactly how competition is supposed to work. Companies are supposed to keep each other in check by fighting to have not just the better product, but also better customer satisfaction.

 

[Olas]

So EA wants competition, but they don't want to see anyone succeed? This is coming from the guys who made a point of announcing that they would be completely ignoring the Wii U and Nintendo, one of Sony's 'competitors'.

I bet if it was EA that was in danger of having a monopoly he'd be defending it till the bitter end.