EA Exec Won't Green Light Any Single Player-Only Games [Slashdot]

[DP ServBot]

An anonymous reader sends this quote from Geek.com:"Frank Gibeau, the president of EA Labels, has shown that business truly does come before gameplay with comments he made as part of a preview document for the CloudGamingUSA event happening on September 11-12 in San Francisco. Gibeau is very proud of the fact he has never green lit a single project that consisted solely of a single-player experience. He insists that every game EA publishes has an online component to it. His reason for doing this? Apparently EA has 'evolved with consumers (PDF)' suggesting he thinks this is what consumers want in every game. ... Forcing online into every game makes little sense. While it works for a Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Fifa or Need for Speed title, there's just as many games that don't need it to succeed, or even work for online play. A good example of this would be the forthcoming SimCity, which has upset fans of the series because it will require an constant Internet connection to play. That isn't a DRM measure, it's due to the tight integration of multiplayer and how all players impact each others games."

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[Leo_A]

Been quite sometime since I green lit purchasing one of their games.

So if they're okay with it, I guess I can't complain. Plenty of publishers out there that do want my money.

[The 1 2 P]

The article is actually worded wrong. What he meant is that he won't green light any games that only have a single player campaign. So basically he's saying that going forward even the single player games need some kind of multiplayer component since their latest initiative is using games as a service as opposed to stand alone one-time use products.

[kupomogli]

As long as it's a good game, I couldn't care less. Unless they make the game have a required online connection, etc.

Army of Two the 40th Day was a great co op game, offline and online, but take that it online to competitive multiplayer and it was a big pile of shit. Does the online multiplayer being there make the single player suck? No, and as long as it stays that way for future titles, I don't care.

[kedawa]

As much as I'd like to be outraged at how obtuse and short-sighted this policy is, I'll be damned if I can think of a single EA series that I care about that would be single-player in the first place.

[kupomogli]

As much as I'd like to be outraged at how obtuse and short-sighted this policy is, I'll be damned if I can think of a single EA series that I care about that would be single-player in the first place.

You don't like Mirror's Edge? Although, like The 1 2 P said, the online portion of Mirror's Edge, posting your speed runs, etc, might be what they mean by not including only single player.