Andrew Wilson named EA CEO

Greeeeat, because EA Sports games like Madden have always been the most revolutionary and interesting things coming from this company. /sarcasm

I believe this company has the ability to turn itself around but even if that happens, I will never forgive them for destroying two of my favorite companies: Bullfrog and Westwood.

Now I know where my money will end up... SMH (shaking my head)

Fuck you EA. Money Grubbing skullcuntery. Fuck Microscam too. :P

800G's..damn

Pay the man eight hundred grand and of course he's going to say anything.

If he wants EA to be the greatest company and be respected by gamers, he doesn't actually have to have EA titles back on Steam (although admittedly that would help a lot), but they should work on improving the abandoned, bug-infested Origin client, improve their customer support and invent some new, original IPs.

EA can't just roll in the money, they have to give something back and show that they actually care about their consumer base - which at the moment, they evidently don't.

Your move EA...

I agree with you Mr Andrew Wilson for getting paid $800,000 annually ...Ea is F amazing company too..lol

I wish i could get a 150% bonus for doing a good job at work.

"Most of all, he has a powerful sense of respect for and commitment to our consumers."

This is so ironic, I am speechless.

An $800k salary and millions in stock that is taxed at a lower rate as well. They always leave that out somehow.

All rise for the new dark lord satan,  Andrew Wilson.  

I don't give a fuck because it will be business as usual.

Something weird is going on with the comment box.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I didn't like this nomination, its more of the same. Had he acknowledged that the company was in bad shape and (keyword now) "changes" are a necessity for the future - that would reassure me a lot more than this political statement. They need to pull a "Mattrick" on EA - fire the leadership and start over.

I hope that this reaction didn't hurt his feelings.

Oh, they promoted the head of Origin to CEO.  Wonderful.  Expect that garbage to continue to be shoved down our throats.

I think maybe EA's best course...would be to tread lightly...

"EA is the devil."

Larry, John, now Andrew. Next up will be Dave, Michael, James, Kevin, Matthew, Peter, Chris. 

So the guy who's in charge of regurgitating Madden every year is in charge of the whole company?

Well congratulations to Andrew Wilson. At this point he hasn't done anything wrong as EA CEO. Even though EA has been voted worst company 2 years in a row. EA as a corporation is awful. Andrew Wilson could be the guy that turns EA round. If that is possible? 

EA Sports..........the Kings of repacking the same game every year....I see great things in your future!

EA, make me your CEO, I only ask for $100,000, and then do nothing.

Still better than Andrew Wilson could ever improve upon.

EA is a publishing house run by bloated ego and bloated salary finance managers that RUIN the great game companies they purchase. Fuck off and die EA, I'll buy games from a real game company.

So we start off by polishing the turd as it were, with such shoddy business practices i don't see how this dude or any other can turn EA into a respectable company in any forceable future, especially if they are going full on digital, i for one wont rent your games then wait for the plug to be pulled when you feel the need or when you go bankrupt, take your future and cram it up your shareholders arses where it belongs.

So, now every article about EA's CEO will have a picture of Andrew Wilson looking very small compared to that dude on the right. It literally looks like Wilson is only half the man that the other guy is. Well, it's at least an improvement from the sleepy-eyed photo of Riccitiello, that some considered creepy.

The World's shittiest games company would have been a more appropriate description.

800,000 dollars? so that means EA has money in the bank, well than when should we expect DEAD SPACE 4 lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stock is considered a risk portfolio, why is a lower tax rate terrible for something that you could lose money on?

@Danny_KickAzz queue imperial march theme

@DaWarthog Yup, business as usual. And it's talk, talk as usual. All these big-wigs sound the same :/

@KopyKat000  The best course for ea would be to clean house starting with peter moore.   EA's biggest strength is that they mistreated their customers equally.  The current direction is getting all lovey-dovey with microsoft and only microsoft.   I still haven't seen a massive groundswell of support for the xbox one, and betting the future of EA on microsoft's console seems like a bad gamble.

@KopyKat000 

No, that would be Activision.

@tomservo51 

No.

@Megavideogamer He worked for EA, that automatically constitutes as doing something wrong.

@blackothh When I saw your comment I laughed because of this article from last week.   http://www.gamespot.com/news/ea-says-it-must-push-creative-boundaries-6414171      

@Grimkillah I vote for you, but I want you to have a pay of $200.000,00 USD. I mean, its only fair.

@Revl8n 

They are all pretty much the same.  EA just catches more crap for doing the same things everyone else is doing.

@Asharel Not to be a prick but those 'shoddy business practices' has made this corporation a lot of money. Who knows more how to run a billion dollar company? you? thanks for the ego. Poor little baby doesn't like some of their games. waaaaaa

@Hurvl yea, gamespot is good a using annoyingly stupid pictures for their articles

@19James89 Sometimes I wonder who is more cynical, executives of games companies like EA or the gamers that bash them. To get this high up you must be very committed and passionate about your work, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll do the right decisions, from a gamer perspective. His statement seems very generical and it's hard to know how true the words about "profound respect and passion" and Probst's words about Wilson having "respect for our customers" really are. I'll judge him by his and EA's actions.

@daviz88 I suppose you would need way more than 800k to make DS4, 800k would be enough for a mobile companion app or something, even that probably not

@deathstream @KopyKat000 Actually, its the 3 prime-evils: Activision-Blizzard (yes, the whole name, same garbage now), EA and Microsoft.

Then there are the 4 lesser-evils: Ubisoft, Sony, Nintendo, Bioware (yes, I know it is EA, but hey, Golden Poo award twice = evil twice).

Paladin of Justice = My PC.

@Maize84 @blackothh talk is cheap, they are all hot air when it comes to talk. they are going to destroy the star wars stuff they have in the pipe and they are not even going to come close to doing the things that this guy thinks they will. Im just going to sit back and watch. (and play other good games)

@mucking_foron I for one could not care less how many billions they made, I care about the games they make, and so far in the last 5 years, they have done nothing of value to me, so I do my part by not giving them a dime of my money and using my money elsewhere.

All they do is buy and destroy good game franchises, and close studios that have made stellar games in the past thinking just because they own the IP that reputation alone will sell product. They also like to come up with new and annoying DRM systems which force more pirating and piss off legal customers.

@Hurvl I have every right to slate Electronic Arts.

@thorn3000 @daviz88 games cost nowhere near that kind of money to produce, most of that money goes to marketing.

@mucking_foron @blackothh I have no clue what it takes to run a multibillion company, but all I can say is that being a publicly traded company, all focus is on making stockholders and board members happy that know nothing whatsoever about playing video games. 

A private 5 person dev has a much better chance at making a game that is genuinely fun. Whereas EA has virtually no chance due to all the handcuffs they have put on themselves.

@blackothh nicely put. That's the power of the consumer. I've done the same with Blizzard but I would never assume to know that I know better than a huge corp. All we as customers can do is avoid such games. 

@19James89 @Hurvl trolls have no rights