“It was a really strong line-up but... they’re just so hard to like.”
That was one industry analyst speaking to MCV moments after EA closed its E3 2015 press event.
Yes, it was heavy on the marketing slogans, and granted, perhaps a bit too much time/not enough time (delete where appropriate) was spent talking to football legend Pele.
But with Star Wars, Mass Effect, Mirror’s Edge, Need for Speed and FIFA, this was one of EA’s strongest ever E3 showings. Wasn’t it?
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.
"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.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
It feels like the video game console is at a crossroads. With Xbox Series X and S floundering in the ‘console war’, Sony suggesting PlayStation 5 is approaching the second half of its life after missing sales targets, and uncertainty around the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, there is growing concern that the traditional video game console business could be under threat.
It's obvious that MS is leaving the console biz. MS may have tons of money, but that doesn't mean they want to keep losing money on the gaming division to prove a point. Thanks Phil
Good article and this is not a duplicate. The link that @Maximus Prime shared is just a small portion of the full interview. This post is the full interview.
Times are changing quick, the same ol way the industry been is changing. Where people play is changing.
“What I think Phil is doing is setting up some smoke signals that we're thinking very differently”
I’m surprised how slowly Microsoft is moving toward Xbox as a software platform. They usually don’t care so much about upsetting their customers with unpopular changes like they do with every other version of Windows.
This "console market hasn't grown narrative " is overblown. The market has grown just not as fast as say smartphones. But so what? There is still money to be made in the business and just because Microsoft has failed doesn't mean the entire industry is facing sudden collapse. Gaming will be fine, every industry has to go through periods of restructuring. AAA games are made becuase its what attracts gamers the most and is where they spend the most money. (Demand/supply) Microsoft abandoning hardware should have happened years ago, they clearly lost interest at a base level in producing games and/or paying 3rd parties to back during the tail end of the 360 generation. Tired of hearing about the future of gaming, just make great games and/or invest in one's made by other to attract people to your platform.
Peter Moore - "We would have no compunction, no hesitation whatsoever, that if something was to go wrong with Star Wars Battlefront – if it wasn’t right – we would just push it. But that’s not going to happen.”
Yeah, that last line - Star Wars Battlefront is not going to miss it's release window - even if it's a bugs nest. DICE will just have to bite the crunch. The potential sale loss if it misses the movie release window will not allow EA that luxury - "players first" be damned.
'Fool me once'
Yea I think this could be like Battlefield 4 all over again....
"here are things that we have done over the years that gamers have taken umbrage too - sometimes rightly and, bluntly, most of the times wrongly"
Most of the times wrongly ? ok EA. You have the reputation you have for a reason, it's up to you to now change the opinions of gamers.
EA has definitely improved of late, but they still do things that annoy me as a gamer, the Sims 4 being one of the most annoying things. And as a big fan of FIFA, i am annoyed that they are messing that up too, FIFA 13 was the last good one for me. I'm also a big fan of Simpsons games and since EA got hold of those games, all they have done is made a game that tied in with the film and made a mobile game. The only reason they got the rights to make Simpson's games was to make money, they aren't thinking of the fans at all there.
Let's see what they do with Battlefront, i'm expecting too see a bunch of DLC packs. If they do that, then they will just annoy me even more.