Posted on Wednesday 16-Feb-2011 5:24 PM

EA suffers high profile departures

BioWare Austin VP and Playfish founders exit the company

By Tom Ivan for computerandvideogames.com

EA has lost a trio of high profile executives this week, according to reports.

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BioWare Austin vice president Gordon Walton has left to take on an executive producer role at Disney-owned social game studio Playdom, while two founding members of Playfish, the social game developer EA bought in 2009, are also set to leave the company.

EA said in a statement that it's "business as usual" at all BioWare studios, according to Edge.

EA CEO John Riccitiello said during a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference last night that the publisher wants BioWare MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic to take the No.1 spot in the market currently held by Blizzard's World of Warcraft.

During the same speech, he admitted that EA "dropped the ball" during the most recent home console transition.

[ Source: Edge ]

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    BenThomasFoster on 16 Feb '11 said:

    Its what you get when you have bioware make more games than activision are publishing

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    craiglackenby on 16 Feb '11 said:

    Its what you get when you have bioware make more games than activision are publishing

    I don't get what you're saying. Are they pushing Bioware to much? Why would it matter what Activision publishes to Bioware?

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    KMakawa on 16 Feb '11 said:

    No one is pushing Bioware at all, Bioware chose this year to release 3 titles. They set themselves challenges and targets and goals, not EA.

    Bioware wanted to top the recent success by releasing these titles, they will then look forward to "now how do we top that!". EA has no real involvement in that front.

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    _Marty_ on 17 Feb '11 said:

    No one is pushing Bioware at all, Bioware chose this year to release 3 titles. They set themselves challenges and targets and goals, not EA.

    Bioware wanted to top the recent success by releasing these titles, they will then look forward to "now how do we top that!". EA has no real involvement in that front.


    Save your breath man, haters gonna hate, as they say.