How EA's CEO is Developing from People's Need to "Steal"
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I'm in Europe now. I never had a data cap in the States but it's been a few years.008Zulu said:
Oh please, EA. You couldn't give away free beer without somehow tainting the entire town's water supply.
So, sensationalist phrasing aside, he's really saying that consumers want better value.
Which if said plainly, would illicit a chorus response of "No shit Sherlock!"
Scandalous.
Which if said plainly, would illicit a chorus response of "No shit Sherlock!"
Scandalous.
While I understand what he is saying, it also sounds like an extended excuse to do things on the basis that they think we'd be doing all of these things to them if we had the chance. A little bit too much of "do unto others before they do unto you" here for my tastes.
Specifically, what they're really doing is just creating large amounts of false "value" in order to make their product look more appealing, in order to compensate for us making unreasonable demands such as wanting an actual game that's worth the money we paid for it ("but that would be work, which is TOOO HAAAARD and people who do actual work are too smart to work for shit wages and cave in to our demands for 'value'!"), like say, a gecko growing a detachable tail so we think we're gonna have a gecko, but we're left with a twitching stump that claims that it is being done for the benefit of the consumer, but has nothing to say about MAKING ACTUAL GAMES.
Quote apologists: if he isn't actually saying anything that alludes to EA believing that we are trying to steal from them or otherwise make an unfair transaction, why would he even mention the first quote???
Specifically, what they're really doing is just creating large amounts of false "value" in order to make their product look more appealing, in order to compensate for us making unreasonable demands such as wanting an actual game that's worth the money we paid for it ("but that would be work, which is TOOO HAAAARD and people who do actual work are too smart to work for shit wages and cave in to our demands for 'value'!"), like say, a gecko growing a detachable tail so we think we're gonna have a gecko, but we're left with a twitching stump that claims that it is being done for the benefit of the consumer, but has nothing to say about MAKING ACTUAL GAMES.
Quote apologists: if he isn't actually saying anything that alludes to EA believing that we are trying to steal from them or otherwise make an unfair transaction, why would he even mention the first quote???
If they don't want to be the worst company all they had to do is fire all the CEOs and put a game developer as ceo.
Ahh to be in a country with good Internet. Google the phrase "Unlimited Isp Lawsuit", most of the results will be from Australia, England and America.SecondPrize said:
(not meant to sound confrontational)
Mwa ha ha ha haaa... So, in short, you're going to do nothng but stand there and talk gibberish at us until people fall in line.
Hey, anybody ever see The Towering Inferno? It's where there's this Big McLargeHuge apartment-office tower that's having a party all the way at the top with all the lights on...when everything inside the place is substandard and really heavily cutting corners on the safety features. So like, a fire starts up and none of the alarms OR the sprinklers work, and nobody gets the fact through to the party upstairs until the people are trapped. There's alot of tragic death, though a good deal of it was through being complete dips the whole time. The moral of the story, one which cost a ton of lives and expensive property damage, in this movie was basically...never to be too grand while also half-assed.
EA is trying to be too grand by far while being worse than merely half-assed. I would argue that there is hardly any 'ass' in their work at all. I suppose seeing is believing, though, so show me something Atlus-level and I'll think about it. (Heh, no. That is not actually possible for them.)
Wait a moment. I might be misunderstanding something so please correct me if I'm wrong. Is this guy really saying that people who are searching for a better deal than the one EA offers is like stealing?
EDIT:
After rereading it again, I have to say that the title is a really pathetic click bait and you should be a shamed of yourself. It's not the CEO who said anything about stealing, it's the Russle guy who said it. The CEO actually denied that by explaining that people don't have a need to steal but rather a need to get good value, which is obviously true.
While stealing does offer a good value, people have a moral compass which prevents stealing from becoming a need except in troubling times.
The CEO did say it in a bad way but there was really no need to make a pathetic click bait out of it and seeing how I was fooled at first and reading the other comments... really escapist, grow a pair of Journalists to do the work.
EDIT:
After rereading it again, I have to say that the title is a really pathetic click bait and you should be a shamed of yourself. It's not the CEO who said anything about stealing, it's the Russle guy who said it. The CEO actually denied that by explaining that people don't have a need to steal but rather a need to get good value, which is obviously true.
While stealing does offer a good value, people have a moral compass which prevents stealing from becoming a need except in troubling times.
The CEO did say it in a bad way but there was really no need to make a pathetic click bait out of it and seeing how I was fooled at first and reading the other comments... really escapist, grow a pair of Journalists to do the work.
I just want to point out something..
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What he said was completely reasonable and yet colored with this ridiculous headline, it's easy to see them getting some really bad press out of this.. This kind of reporting is lazy and frankly, I expected better from The Escapist.
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Therefore...?
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If you read them in this order, it's immediately clear that something is off...
What he said was completely reasonable and yet colored with this ridiculous headline, it's easy to see them getting some really bad press out of this.. This kind of reporting is lazy and frankly, I expected better from The Escapist.
Oh you don't know shit about what has and has no value if that plants vs zombies 2 mobilwe game is any indication.
The things for which you can drop actual money on bogs the mind, consumable currency, cheats, actual plants while the thing you can and should monetize, skins, gets thrown at you for free left and right.
The things for which you can drop actual money on bogs the mind, consumable currency, cheats, actual plants while the thing you can and should monetize, skins, gets thrown at you for free left and right.
This whole thing reeks so badly of overstating the obvious, that i'm now 100% certain all of EA are invasive lizard people from mercury, trying to blend in unnoticed on our unsuspecting planet. What they understand of the human psyche? Hah! The mask is slipping EA.
The mask ...Is slipping.
The mask ...Is slipping.