Last month, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said that he felt "the time to launch an IP is at the front-end of the hardware cycle." His argument? That "if you look at the market dynamics, as much as there's a desire for new IP, the market doesn't reward new IP this late in the cycle. They end up doing okay, but not really breaking through."
But Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price - who is currently heading up development on new IP Fuse under EA's Partners programme - disagrees.
"Well, we're seeing evidence of that right now with Dishonored, right?" Price told VideoGamer.com when questioned about Gibeau's comments. "Dishonored is kicking ass out there as a new IP."
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
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"Well, I mean look, I believe, and we at Insomniac believe - and I think EA believes - that new IP can always succeed if it's a well-made game that offers players something that is compelling."
Well your new game isn't that so just go back to Sony.
I agree with what Ted Price is saying here, but unfortunately, unless there are a lot of changes, Insomniacs new game isn't going to prove it. Perhaps the way it plays will make up for the generic look though. We'll just have to wait and see.
I really loved Dishonored (only redboxed it), it gave me that special Bioshock feeling... WHICH IS AWESOME!
I personally think Insomniac is losing their luster... the uniqueness of their titles seems to errode with every new release they put out!
New ips at the end of console cycles always get over shadowed.
XIII
Bully
Shadow Of The Colossus
All fantastic, acclaimed games released at the end of last gen that underperformed by being overshadowed by current consoles.