EA's CEO steps down

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/22482-ea-ceo-john-riccitiello-steps-down-temporary-replacement-named/

About time. Hopefully we get someone who genuinely cares about video game quality this time. Oh, who am I kidding? Of course we won't.

Yeah, just like Star Wars will instantly get better and return to OT-level quality now that Lucas is no more.

Riiiiight...

Disney might revive Battlefront.

There been rumors flying about.

But yeah, good riddance. EA needs to learn that their anti-consumer service isn't appreciated by most.

I would love for a new Battlefront to happen.

This honestly made my day.. lol

With all the bullshit that's happened with Simcity 5, it's no surprise

Saldy yes. This is not going to happen.

A new horizon awaits.

Well I'll be damned....

I just hope they don't put in someone worse, or we're all fucked.

Unless you're someone like me who doesn't pay a cent to EA.

John Spaghettio can get fucked, and I don't have enough popcorn for this glorious disaster movie. The simcity incident should make it clear even to casuals that EA is a cunt. I'd hate to use /v/ speak on fakku, but:

>2013
>Still giving EA money

Last thing I bought that was EA was BF3, and that was just because everyone was getting praise, and I still found the game shitty in some of the map designs, but still enjoyable, when you don't deal with a bunch of bullshit.

But yeah, I'm not gonna get anything that's EA at this point. For fucks sake, people are already telling people to save up for BF4 over getting a used BF3. There isn't even a trailer for it and people are already eating it up.

That, and BF4's gonna have microtransactions, so that's just calling for a shitstorm to happen.

I think the last thing i bought from EA was Mass Effect 1 and 2 (steam sale). Hopefully Bioware eventually wisens up and tries to buy itself back from EA otherwise people will be even more pissed with future games.

I used to like EA games. like some of the 007 games as well as The Sims. now they're the poster boy for asshole video game company. i hope this guy is better than the last.

Wait, wait, wait, let me get this straight. Not only do you have to fork over $60+ for the game and even more for all the DLC, it now also includes a fucking item mall?

Too far, way too far, either use the F2P model properly and allow us to optionally pay through micro-transactions or give us a game with a set price & DLC. It's one or the other, not fucking both.

If this is the case I will never buy an EA product again, which sucks because I've been playing the Battlefield series since 1942 was released and I truly do enjoy DICE's work. Their animations, gameplay and visuals have always been some of the best at the time whenever they release a new iteration of Battlefield, the series has always topped my charts for FPS games. Yeah the storyline and writing isn't legendary, but there wasn't even an actual campaign in the first few iterations of the game, just singe-player skirmishes with lots of A.I. so I don't care for it much anyway.

But that just strikes me deep, micro-transactions, DLC & I have to pay $60+ for the fucking game?! Not only that, but I have to deal with the incredible piece of bug-infested retardation that is Origin. Fuck off EA, you're getting my Steaming Pile of Golden Shit award until the day I die.

Edit: @Rbz, the only point I disagree with is that $60 is a pretty logical price for a game, in fact it ends up being less than I payed for 1942 when it came out because of the increase in inflation over the years.

I don't necessarily agree with every point either, I just like the presentation and the essence of the post, which is "have some fucking principles."

Also, Battlefield 1942 was so boss. Had an epic theme and proper reloading. Then there's the russian flying saucer assault rifle. Oh god, these memories. I never played the single player, only against bots.

They didn't announce that they were putting in microtransaction into BF4, but they announced, after DS3, that they were now implementing microtransactions in all EA releases from here on out.

How many other games are coming out before the holiday season this year that are published by EA? I wanna start making a list of games that could have been good, but EA fucked up with micro-you-know-the-word.

They actually came out again and said they meant micro transactions in all of their Mobile games. Whether that is valid or not remains to be seen but he did "correct" himself

Source

Well, that gives me a little hope. I just hope it's not a technicality, where EA isn't gonna put in the transactions, but they're gonna want the devs to implement them into the games.

I wasnt going to get it already, but now im even more against it, paying 50 dollars for premium on BF3 is the last cent EA is going to get from me, releasing a new game package with all the maps for 50 bucks while the people who bought it at launch pay another 50 on top of the basic charge, its a good thing I got a lot of hours of enjoyment out of it.

[font=Verdana]It's about damn time.

EA fucked up many sequels already with all them microshits whatsoever.

Yes, some are free-to-play. But then, free-to-play games are pay-to-enjoy games too. Experienced it since flip-server MMORPG's started to do this scheme. [/font]

I heard about this a few days ago and was like

OMG! maybe we will stop being treated like cash cows. Get finished games that aren't rushed to beat the sales of other titles! Maybe have games and dlc's worth every cent. :/

But one can only hope. Maybe in a year or two we will find out if my hopes come true or not.