Trip Hawkins Blasts Everybody

An anonymous reader writes "Trip Hawkins, founder of EA, sent in a hilarious two page letter to the editor in response to last week's Trip Hawkins is the Antichrist article in the Escapist. Among the Tripisms is a call for the Garriotts to stop being self-righteous about lawsuits and just 'play the game...'" From the article: "This article comes as a bit of a surprise to me. Not the lead quote, because my success with EA did indeed unnerve many competitors who wanted to externalize blame for their problems. But disparaging my commitment to quality, putting words in my mouth, and saying they never would have sold the company if I had been involved - these inaccuracies paint a very wrong picture."

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I didn't see anything particularly nasty about Trip in his response. He didn't even appear particularly interested in placing game, but rather cleaing the air that the dispute was simply a matter of contract issues that required external resolution.

Now, does that make him evil or not? Well, I don't know. A lot of people may hate EA because of their offensive approach to things like getting exclusive NFL rights, and things like that, but in my mind that's the price of business. It's his job to make EA as much money as possible, and he definitely appears to be doing a good job at it. If you don't like it, don't buy EA's games. Yeah, I hate the idea that nobody else can make NFL titles, too, and I'm not a big fan of most of EA's games, but they must be doing something right or else they wouldn't be in the position that they are in today.