EA's longtime CEO John Riccitiello has resigned today following another poor earnings quarter.
The exec will step down on March 30th, with Larry Probst stepping in as an interim CEO while the company searches for a permanent replacement.
Riccitiello says he was resigning due to the company's poor financial performance, but surely the recent SimCity debacle must have had a small part ... [ read the full article ]
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Who would have guessed that if you screw your customers with excessive and unneccessary DRM, and essentially make your customers pay to win/complete a game after they already bought it that you would lose money after you pissed off your customers.
Seeing as SimCity and other games that have a always on DRM have sold well I doubt EA will change there stance on it. People need to speak with there wallet not just online complaints.
This is already hitting 'em in the wallet. You think there are a lot of new sales of the game, since Amazon put the kibosh on sales..? For that matter, the free game giveaway they're trying to save their collective ass with is also quite a cost.
Whether that's enough to smack some sanity into wizened little bean-counter craniums, well, who knows? But DRM is nothing but a vast money-sink that's designed specifically to enrage their own legitimate customers, so they're eventually going to start counting THOSE beans, one would hope.
See EA your customers are not as stupid as you think the more drm you use the less of your game sales you experience and worse of which you morons didn't understand to begin with is we dont like to pay for online play and play to pay the motto may work well for some games but not yours
