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Riccitiello talks
John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer (boss) of EA had a speech at the D.I.C.E. conference yesterday, where he confirmed his "enormous faith" in Spore once again.
He said:
"I believe it's going to be one of the greatest franchises in our industry and will rival World of Warcraft or The Sims or Rock Band. It's going to be right up there."
He is still playing with the latest version of Spore, actually he is "fixated on it".
When he was asked about a possible failure of Spore, he said:
"It's probably the greatest creative risk maybe going on in the game industry today," but also added that "EA is100% behind the team that's creating that, and we will live and fall together"
When he talked about EA's policy with the smaller internal studios, he admitted EA's failure about ruling too strictly, and during that, destroying these studios in the past. "EA blew it, and to a certain degree, since I was involved, I blew it."
As a counterexample, he specifically mentioned Maxis, along with EA Canada, and that these two studios produced the two most popular franchises, The Sims and Need for Speed, even though these are the most independent studios.: "In essence, these two companies took over Electronic Arts,"
He expressed his plan to give the small studios even more independence, because this seems to be the most effective way.
sporeinfo - Feb 12, 2008 12:47 PM
Sept 7, 2008
Corvou - Feb 11, 2008 05:54 PM
lucky711, that's just a analyst, I don't think we can take this guy seriously. Still, it would be no surprise if spore dosen't come out at all this year.
lucky711 - Feb 11, 2008 05:26 PM
everyone go on this site from Aim.com they heard somethign about spore that it might! come out in fall/winter fo 2008-- http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/spore-delay-until-late-08-likely-says-analyst/19241/?biz= just copy and paste that site
1fanofspore - Feb 10, 2008 11:17 PM
I was laughing when i heard that he was Playing with it. he also said he is "fixated on it". That means 2 good things. 1.It has a good chance that it has little to no bugs in it. 2. It has his attention. Both combin into powerful elements.........
Kozae - Feb 10, 2008 10:13 PM
We'll be waiting...
Dr. Kilory - Feb 10, 2008 10:55 AM
Mabye Brawl could rival Spore, there are both really good games!
Alterego - Feb 10, 2008 03:44 AM
Moome: It was not recorded, but here is a longer article about it: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6185814.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&t
SSVstil - Feb 09, 2008 06:23 PM
Way to point out the obvious! Of course Spore will rival WoW, i don't know a game in the world that can compete with Spore. And i know a lot of games.
Mr. Turtle - Feb 09, 2008 05:59 PM
I wish he would comment more on when spore is coming out. But it looks like EA needs to give spore more people to work on it; its under-employed.
xDreamache - Feb 09, 2008 04:02 PM
wow he looks like michael douglas.
Waiting_4_Spore - Feb 09, 2008 03:57 PM
Also, awesome article. Glad to see this guy from EA's faith in Spore
ToddMite - Feb 09, 2008 03:57 PM
well it's good to see that the boss of EA is paying high atention at spore.
Waiting_4_Spore - Feb 09, 2008 03:56 PM
inb4 people saying that this article fails.
Moome - Feb 09, 2008 03:41 PM
Is there a link to this speech? I appreciate the excerpt, but I'd like to see the context!
Neurotoxin - Feb 09, 2008 03:36 PM
Spore's a risk because if you look at every other game that has come out, it is either based on an existing franchise or has the same game play as other established titles, SPORE is a revolution in the gaming industry because of its concept and game play. that makes it a financial risk on EA's part.
spider22 - Feb 09, 2008 03:36 PM
This not help spider. spider want release date. Muga Muga
xAzkanan - Feb 09, 2008 03:31 PM
Greatest risk? How the hell is Spore a risk? xD!!! Go Spore! (First post <3)
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