Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has been a talkative boy today, and lately the silver-maned executive has been talking about game quality. According to Riccitiello, EA is prepared to shut down several in-development titles a year if they are not reaching certain standards. Kind of like how they killed Bullfrog, except with a reason this time.
"When something's not meeting expectations... you can course correct by giving it more time, more money, changing the concept or killing the game. If you're committed to quality, you take one of those paths. If you preclude any one of those paths, quality will suffer.
EA will kill a game or two a year. Forever."
Brutal stuff, but I imagine that EA's standards of quality are a little lower than some. In fact, Tiberium must have been really bad for EA to kill it off.
That said, it's a good idea to shut down a game if there's no chance of it ever being good. Sometimes a title is going to suck no matter how much you try and polish it. I dare say a fair few games over the years would have benefitted from being put out of their misery.
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4:22 PM on 10.15.2008
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Or did Facebreaker already fill in the slot for 2009?
EA instead of killing game IP... why don't they sell the IP's and let other game companies try give them a shot instead of just killing the franchise.
and make money to boot.
Sorry, any reason to bash EA and im over it like EA over EVERY GOD DAMN MOVIE GAME THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON, YOU KILLED SUPERMAN FOR ME YOU BASTARDS.
Okay, Im done.
now thats a franchise that just needs to die..
the first 2 versions on the Genesis were good but after that.. well, you know what i'm saying.
Extremely shocking for EA but I really like the new direction, more resources for Dead space 2 please!
And wait a minute, EA are actually going to start canning projects that are shit before they actually hit our stores? My my, I really do not believe that. I'll wait until Sony and Microsoft make the XStation360 until I believe that shite.