Vapourware LOL ELECTRONIC ARTS: The EA Thread

[Jaesun]

Anybody can pretend to be an ex employee.

 

[Blaine]

Of course they could, but while the bona fides of the writer are questionable at best, the content speaks for itself regardless of the source. I'm still trying to figure out if those are the company's actual "core values", because it's those that generate the most comedy for me.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

think (how to screw most of the) consumers first.
be accountable: riccitiello's account is huge. more accountable than that?
act with integrity: they're integrally fucking their customers.
create quality and innovations - so we can recognize them and steer faaaaar away from them.
be bold. done.
learn and grow - so we know who's raising his head out of the bag and cut it.

so the author fails on every point. ea kept all its promises.

 

[Brinko]

"Think Consumers First"? Is that even English? Maybe this is why EA is in such dire straits, it seems the Execs running the show are barely intelligible potatoes they hired on the cheap and every idea they send down to the lower level managers has to be deciphered by some crack squad from Langley.

Either that or that is some double speak shit. EA games are doubleplusgood.

 

[Brinko]

Steam finally getting their asses in gear on taking advantage of EA stupidity.

 

[Dexter]

Of course they could, but while the bona fides of the writer are questionable at best, the content speaks for itself regardless of the source. I'm still trying to figure out if those are the company's actual "core values", because it's those that generate the most comedy for me.

https://jobs.ea.com/about/our_values/

Our Values are:

Be Bold

• Go Big
• Take the right risks
• Back our bets
• Lead

Think Consumers First

• Listen and respond
• Deliver beyond their expectations
• Build lifetime customers

Create Quality and Innovation

• Deliver products and services that surpass expectations
• Be relentless about improving quality
• Take creative risks

Act with Integrity

• Do the right thing
• Trust others and support their decisions
• Be transparent

Be Accountable

• Deliver on commitments
• Always do what we say
• Play our positions
• Deliver and reward results

Learn and Grow

• Work hard, play hard
• Develop yourself and others
• Measure your improvement
• Share knowledge generously

This also made a few headlines: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...stizes-company-over-simcity-in-public-letter/
And apparently the original post was deleted since it was gaining too much attention.
A few EA employees said that this sounds "authentic" though.

 

[Delterius]

Of course they could, but while the bona fides of the writer are questionable at best, the content speaks for itself regardless of the source. I'm still trying to figure out if those are the company's actual "core values", because it's those that generate the most comedy for me.

The creation and application of rules says much about a particular group. The apparently Orweallian ambience that EA's campus lives in ('RESPECT THE CONSUMERS AND BE HAPPY =D' seems to stalk every employee) just mean the obvious: the corporate culture at EA is shit really shit.

 

[Cromwell]

so everything that is wrong with sim city is the launch and always online, and that obviously is the fault of the big higher ups. Design wise its a gem because the artists folllow a strict code?

 

[Jick Magger]

From what I've heard the city size limit is ridiculously small. Never played any game in the series, though, so I can't really judge.

 

[Gurkog]

From what I have seen of the Let's Plays of press release... the cities are like at most 1/5th of the single player maps.

 

[Surf Solar]

"Quick Dry Cement DLC" ?

Is it that what I think it is? What the fuck..

 

[Stokowski]

What do you think it is?

 

[ohWOW]

WOOOOO, TROPICO 4, welcome to my account!

Wait, Tropico 3 is on sale too, I will get that instead.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Christ, what's with that face. His mouth is smiling but his eyes are dead. HIS EYES ARE DEAD!

He looks tired, really. It's the kind of sad smile you'd expect to see on a farmer's face after this season's crops have been ruined by hail. Maybe he knows EA is why no one can have nice things...

Probably had a bad day at Farmville you say ?

 

[Angthoron]

SRSLY GUYS WTF ARE YOU THE AMAZING PHOTOGENIC GUY THAT COMES OUT LOOKING GREAT WHEN ASKING TO SMILE FOR THE CAMERA?

DO YOU SMILE EARNESTLY WHEN YOU KNOW YOU'RE BEING PHOTOGRAPHED BY A MEDIA PERSON, A WHORE THE LIKES OF WHICH YOUR CORPORATION BUYS BY THE THOUSAND?

SRSLY GUYS WTF THIS IS LIKE "IS THIS GUY FUCKABLE: THE THREAD" WITH A "MILDLY FUCKABLE; SMILE A TURN-OFF THOUGH" CONCLUSION.

 

[MetalCraze]

Problem?

 

[Blaine]

"Think Consumers First"? Is that even English?

It's buzzword-y English, yes. "Think [whatever]" is a colloquialism of sorts.

Also, apparently I screen-capped that post minutes before it was deleted by the author.

 

[Markman]

Meh, EA. My 8 year old kid is pushing me to buy this game and has been nagging about it for months. Well, after this DRM shitstorm he wont be getting it for the same reason I didnt buy Diablo 3. Nor any of the Ubisoft titles with this always on drm.

I mean the cheap version costs 599 SEK(about 70 euros or $95) on Origin. Imagine my rage if I would buy this singleplayer game and then got stuck infront of a 30 minute que login screen. Holy shit

 

[skuphundaku]

"Think Consumers First"? Is that even English?

It's buzzword-y English, yes. "Think [whatever]" is a colloquialism of sorts.

Also, apparently I screen-capped that post minutes before it was deleted by the author.

Don't worry, it was posted by others afterwards... including on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...stizes-company-over-simcity-in-public-letter/

 

[Blaine]

Yeah, I saw the Forbes article someone linked to a few posts back. Real or not, the letter's been seen by thousands, possibly tens of thousands of people at this point. I imagine it propagated not only to Forbes, but also to 4chan, other gaming news sites, possibly NeoGAF, and other special interest forums like the Codex.

 

[Angthoron]

Was it deleted by author or by moderator though? I heard it might be the latter from a friend.

 

[sea]

Meh, EA. My 8 year old kid is pushing me to buy this game and has been nagging about it for months. Well, after this DRM shitstorm he wont be getting it for the same reason I didnt buy Diablo 3. Nor any of the Ubisoft titles with this always on drm.

I mean the cheap version costs 599 SEK(about 70 euros or $95) on Origin. Imagine my rage if I would buy this singleplayer game and then got stuck infront of a 30 minute que login screen. Holy shit

Just pirate it for the kid, he won't know the difference.

 

[DraQ]

I mean the cheap version costs 599 SEK

I thought you said "cheap".

 

[Zewp]

Just pirate it for the kid, he won't know the difference.

Good luck pirating an online-only game that only released this week.

 

[Blaine]

Was it deleted by author or by moderator though? I heard it might be the latter from a friend.

Well, Reddit is rather strongly anti-EA (the ONLY redeeming quality of Reddit's gaming-related subreddits), so I doubt the moderators would delete it. There have been similar posts in the past purporting to be from EA employees that weren't deleted.