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EA Is All About Online
Posted on Wednesday, December 8 @ 21:36:00 Eastern by danielrbischoff
So you don't have your console hooked up to the Internet? EA wants you to get online, that's where all the action is!
Appointed in 2007, EA Games label president Frank Gibeau has made some statements revealing Electronic Arts direction as we entire the next generation of the current generation of consoles.
 While EA has been making motion games, casual games, and laying off a whole bunch of people, they've also been experimenting in the online space. Have you played Battlefield Heroes yet?
Gibeau recently told an interviewer that EA will be including online components in every game, making such features practically mandatory for all devs. That explains the unnecessary Dead Space 2 multiplayer.... Gibeau continued:
I volunteer you to speak to EA's studio heads, they'll tell you the same thing.
They're very comfortable moving the discussion towards how we make connected gameplay - be it co-operative or multiplayer or online services - as opposed to fire-and-forget, packaged goods only, single-player, 25-hours and you're out. I think that model is finished.
Online is where the innovation, and the action, is at.
The action Gibeau is referring to is obviously dollars and cents, but that's not the dynamic corporate speak these business types are trying to be known for.
Let's just hope the series of tubes can hold up under all that EA-online-gaming pressure. While I'd be happy with the online leaderboard component already present in Mirror's Edge, I could see myself enjoying a race over the rooftops in real time. Where's my Mirror's Edge sequel, dammit!
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