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EA Reorganizes Into Four Labels

Posted by Zonk on from the too-big-for-its-britches dept.

Reuters is reporting that the mega-publisher EA will soon be reorganized into four separate labels underneath the company's umbrella. The four groups will be known as EA Games, EA Sports, EA Casual Entertainment, and a label simply called 'The Sims'. All four organizations will be supported by two additional EA groups, which will handle publishing and 'development services'. "The changes, based on the success of a pilot program that placed games based on "The Sims" franchise into their own unit, mean it will require fewer executives to sign off on new games or to approve launching an existing game on a different platform or in a different regions. "We ran an organizational experiment and it was pretty damn successful. The Sims grew aggressively," Frank Gibeau, head of the new EA Games unit said."

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  1. hmm by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The four groups will be known as EA Games, EA Sports, EA Casual Entertainment, and a label simply called 'The Sims'.

    That's odd. I would have expected the fourth one to be "Madden"

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    1. Re:hmm by secretwhistle · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would have thought EA Sports would just be named "Roster Update."

    2. Re:hmm by Smight · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about nerd sports like chess, poker, and robot battling? "A sport is a competitive activity where skill, ability , and strategy determine the victor." football could arguably not qualify

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    3. Re:hmm by Subacultcha · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, I would have expected "Pestilence", "War", "Famine", and "Death", but I can see how the 4th one could be "The Sims".

  2. Speedy? by toleraen · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The changes, based on the success of a pilot program that placed games based on "The Sims" franchise into their own unit, mean it will require fewer executives to sign off on new games or to approve launching an existing game on a different platform or in a different regions.

    I guess its the bureaucracy that's been holding them back from releasing madden twice a year then? I'm definitely looking forward to madden 07.5 now!

  3. They offered me the chance to run EA Casual... by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...but I just kinda said, "Fuck it," ya know?

  4. Mislabelled by GFree · · Score: 3, Funny

    The four groups will be known as EA Games, EA Sports, EA Casual Entertainment, and a label simply called 'The Sims'.

    Those groups don't representative EA well enough I think. They probably should be renamed as:

    The four groups will be known as EA Shit, EA Bullshit, EA Thisissoshit, and a label simply called 'The Sims'.
  5. Hows about... by goodenoughnickname · · Score: 4, Funny

    EA Pestilence, EA War, EA Famine, and EA Death

  6. Bugs division by El-Wrongo · · Score: 2, Funny

    TFA fails to mention that the reason for this is that the EA Bugs division was disbanded because they found out that instead of spending time carefully putting CTDs inn and unbalancing gameplay, they could simplify the whole process of bug development by just corrupting the EXE file so every time on startup it gives out a BSOD.