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EA: "Game devs shouldn't rehash so much." World: 0.o
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article2048274.ece
Computer game chief: games are boring
The head of Electronic Arts says game-makers have to be more innovative or risk losing audiences to iPods and mobile phones
For years they were the staple of the computer gaming community. Publishers would release new versions of popular games and hordes of devotees rushed out to buy them, challenging one another to finish their many levels first.
Now the age of the grand strategy game appears to be ebbing away, as the boss of the largest computer and video game publishers declared many of today's offerings "boring", and called on companies to appeal more to casual game players.
John Riccitiello, the chief executive of Electronic Arts, which publishes The Sims and will also release the official Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix game, said that many of today's games lacked innovation, and that the formula of releasing sequels needed to change or audiences would drift away.
Strategy games, which often cost between £25 and £30, take up to 40 hours to finish, and would only ever be finished by a few players, were singled out for particular criticism.
"We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play," Mr Riccitiello said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "For the most part, the industry has been rinse-and-repeat. There's been lots of product that looked like last year's product, that looked a lot like the year before."
Mr Riccitiello praised a handful of games, including Guitar Hero, made by Activision as well as Blizzard Entertainment's online role-playing game, World of Warcraft. He also singled out one which was part-released by his own company, called Rock Band.
But on the whole not enough titles were breaking new ground, he said, and game developers would have to be much more innovative when they produced sequels to popular games.
The games business was "at risk of being a little less interesting than Facebook and iPods and the next cool cellphone," Mr Riccitiello said.
Mr Riccitiello's comments, which came ahead of the E3 games conference in Santa Monica, California, this week, echo the views of many within the industry, but such criticisms are rarely voiced by the executives of companies which make games.
The success of the Nintendo Wii, which according to industry figures is outselling Sony's PS3 by a rate of two to one in the UK, is often attributed to its ability to attract customers who wouldn't traditionally consider themselves gamers.
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It's moreso the fact that they seem to be claiming game devs shouldn't rehash, yet they're one of the biggest offenders.
It's like Hitler telling people to stop committing genocide. You kinda lose the right to reprimand others over it.
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Are we really in danger of people dropping their jrpg's for mobile phone games?
An EA exec decrying Epic, one of the greatest game studios in the world, for a lack of innovation.
Cue howls of laughter and Eurogamer being forced to remove the newspost in shame.
(for the record, it wasn't the original review score that bothered me, just the EA comment and the general smugness exhibited by EG over the whole affair.)
because those are looking pretty original. EA actually seem to be working on good games at the moment..
Blasphemy.
true, i have no idea what they're doing on the Wii. Also, some horrible texturing going on there..
but yeah, EA aren't all that bad at the moment. Nowhere near what they have been.
I hate hypocrisy!
Hypocrisy should be a crime.
The gall of this guy to do this kind of shit. Could it be possible that he doesn't really know that EA is one of the largest culprits of the shit he is lambasting? It's got to be next to impossible not to.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
I read it, and EA has some fucking nerve to call the industry out for a problem they are DRIVING. They are literally DRIVING the industry feasibility of regurgitation and non-innovation for capital gain. So fuck them in their stupid fucking idiotic hypocritical asses.
Calm down, Sailor Moon. They aren't "driving" the problem. The guy just said it was a problem, and still is somewhat. He didn't praise EAs own work as being new, nor did he start pointing fingers at certain groups. The line up of upcoming EA games really shows that they are trying to get away from the "generic" path, which goes with what this dude is saying.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
Spore is also an EA game. As is Rock Band.
Rock Band at this point is a well worn idea just put together (hopefully) really well. I have faith in it.
Spore, who the hell cares about Spore anyways? It will come out in a year or two and probably be just as dissapointing as other high concept games like The Movies.
And Sim City, and The Sims. You're probably right!
I know, it's such a burden to be right all the time. No need to lump Sim City in with those other jokers though, as that is a good time.
This is true. I did go off the beaten topic a little bit. Spore is going to be plenty innovative.
Jesus Christ. Yes, yes, yes, and more yes. I blame that one on the huge boom of the industry; so many new gamers came into the hobby recently that they don't know what games could be considered banal and what games could be considered innovative because it's all new to them.
WTF is he playing? Unless the only thing he has played in the last several years is Ikaruga that goddamn quote doesn't make an ounce of sense.
That would explain a lot about Sony.
Sony should take a page from EA's book, and come out all angry and say:
"Gaming companies shouldn't shoot themselves in the face with stupid marketing involving dead livestock and fake bloggers so much."
You could only be talking about Rogue Agent, since EA acquired the Bond license in 1999, and I hope to God you're not.
but hey, the never third person bonds were decent and technically innovative, no?
Actually, I absolutely fucking love Everything or Nothing. Considering GoldenEye's age, it's my preferred Bond game of choice.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
Here's what they've got on the Wii:
Sequels/ports
New IP:
I'm putting MySims in the "new" column to give them the benefit of the doubt. It might not be a complete rehash.
"newer" C&C's = Innovative? No. Most of the C&C series have been good games, but none of the newest installations in the series can be called innovative.
Burnout = Quite innovative yes, but EA had nothing to do with the series until the 3rd one.
Goldeneye = Again, not EA. The original game was developed by Rare.
I'll give you The Sims, Sim City & Spore though.