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The decline of social games has been "overhyped," Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said at Friday's App Conference in San Jose, California, AllThingsD (http://allthingsd.com/20121019/electronic-arts-ceo-consumers-wont-pay-for-crap/) reported. "Companies that are now suffering will have another day," Riccitiello said.
The CEO noted that viral marketing-style messages in social games that spam friends lists with requests don't make for "great gaming," and that "consumers won't pay for crap." Riccitiello had similar comments in May (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/04/riccitiello-hip-to-eas-social-failings-id-say-were-a-distan/), when he said that "consumers want to be entertained, they don't want to be data managed."http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)EA's Riccitiello on social games: 'Consumers won't pay for crap' (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/20/eas-riccitiello-on-social-games-consumers-wont-pay-for-crap/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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The decline of social games has been "overhyped," Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said at Friday's App Conference in San Jose, California, AllThingsD (http://allthingsd.com/20121019/electronic-arts-ceo-consumers-wont-pay-for-crap/) reported. "Companies that are now suffering will have another day," Riccitiello said.
The CEO noted that viral marketing-style messages in social games that spam friends lists with requests don't make for "great gaming," and that "consumers won't pay for crap." Riccitiello had similar comments in May (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/04/riccitiello-hip-to-eas-social-failings-id-say-were-a-distan/), when he said that "consumers want to be entertained, they don't want to be data managed."http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)EA's Riccitiello on social games: 'Consumers won't pay for crap' (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/20/eas-riccitiello-on-social-games-consumers-wont-pay-for-crap/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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