should CEOs be allowed to do this eventhough all they produce is failure?

>>714178313 (OP)
Because capitalism is inherently corrupt
Next question.

>>714178313 (OP)
Nobody forces you to work for them.
Go open your own studio where you don't have to pay these people with your blood.

He became CEO in 2014 and the stock looks like it's close to its all time high.

they should all be hung upside down off the side of a building, with only a rope tied around their dick and balls keeping them attached

>>714178313 (OP)
Would anybody really be upset if we just killed these people

>>714178313 (OP)
You misunderstand the point of a CEO. A CEO is a position someone is put in for the singular purpose of increasing stock prices. That's it. It's all for shareholder profits. This is the devil people sell their souls to when a company goes public.

>>714178771
God you children are so fucking ignorant. Kill yourself.

>>714178507
>>714178829
is this a stock company or a videogame company? Can you tell me?

>>714178426
It's not that it's corrupt, it's that they only ever pull the levers that increase investor confidence. This guy made the stock prices go up for a long time. They'd rather blame a down year on something else and show the investors that they're willing to keep him around.
That's retarded, of course, but it's how they think. The product doesn't matter as long as the number keeps going up, because no one invests for dividends or a good product anymore, they invest with the express intent of divesting at the peak and laughing all the way to the bank. And all companies can do to avoid a fate like that is to keep growing perpetually, and beat inflation at that.

>>714178313 (OP)
wtf is wrong with his face and head?
on track to be completely bogged

>>714178313 (OP)
He looks like a video game character

>>714178426
>Capitalism is inherently corrupt
What a gormless take.
Anyone can earn money and purchase stock.

>>714178771
When you kill the competent and motivated entrepreneurs, productivity collapses and people starve.
Every time.

>>714179062
Stocks indicate a company's success, retard. You sound like someone saying health isn't a number when the scale says 350lbs.

please

>>714179093
How do you increase investor confidence producing failure after failure and the only thing keeping you afloat are old established ips you have an exclusivity license to? Inherently corrupt and stupid.

>>714179356
what is EA's latest success?

>>714179062
It is beholden to the interests of shareholders, the *owners*.
They aren't patronizing the arts, they're investing in a business.

it was incredibly funny when the mirror's edge team made him the bad guy in catalyst

>>714179356
If stocks indicate a company's success then why do they sell video games?

>>714179647
>I don't understand why line go up, so it must be corruption or stupidity.
Relativity is a hoax, too.

>>714179952
Why sell video games then?

>>714179861
And Catalyst was famously shit, failing to capture the appeal of the original.

>>714180046
Because they still have plenty of IPs to mine.

>>714179336

>>714179710
Fifa and idk battlefield, Im just glad theyve placed themselves in their little corner instead of gobbling up studios and killing them

>>714179348
>Noooo dont kill the shitty greedy guy you'll kill thousands
Good

>>714179348
>Competent

Kek

>>714180258
there is no battlefield in the last decade that has a good rating.
As the article says, the latest fifa was also a failure, not only that but they lost the FIFA license.
This guy is just swindling investors and continues to fire people while inflating his own paycheck.

>>714178313 (OP)
he didn't make those games, did he? why should he be punished for the failure of others

>>714179647
Investors are fucking stupid, that's how. A good narrative about how X isn't all their fault, and it would have happened to anybody, plus a handful of "mitigating measures" like layoffs is enough to keep investors from cashing out.

>>714180468
>head of the company should not take responsibility ever
small penis

>>714180125
it was an okay game. people mostly overreated because of the skill tree and goobergabe

>>714180296
Millions.

>>714180230
But if they dont need video games and keep crying about failed ips and hundreds of millions lost to making games then why not just cut gaming off?

I honestly don’t understand why anyone would need that much money.

I live decently comfortably and don’t make a fraction of what he does; I couldn’t even fathom what I’d do with all of it. Seems like a total waste to me

>>714178507
>What is ZIRP and a million recessuon can kicks?
The tell is the downturn in 2019-2021. That was when there was an expectation that we were about to crash, culimating in a treasury liquidity crisis in October '19 and then of course the pandemic crash which was immediately bailed out.

>>714180673
Because you have neither imagination nor ambition.

>>714178313 (OP)
Just buy enough shares to oust him, bro.

>>714180651
Their name is Electronic Arts.
Pivoting and rebranding is a bankruptcy strategy.

>>714179062
Unfortunately anon, that isn't how public companies operate.

>>714180673
they dont do anything with it, thats most of the problem, they dont care to, they just want to keep it away from others

>>714178313 (OP)
Seriously. Why do fucks like this continue to rise the corporate ranks and stay in their positions after making flop after flop? Can anyone explain this shit? Its driving me mad. Like Neil Druckmann for example who the fuck is funding this shit? Intergalactic is going to flop harder than Concord and he still might have a job.

>>714179710
Split Fiction. 97% on Steam, which is exceptionally rare.

>>714181158
Yeah thats one good game out of a whole slew of horrible piss poor garbage

>>714181190
Then why did you ask for one game?

>>714178771
>there are companies destroying land and drinking water.

EA is the most evil company in American because of my fifa and madden!!!

>>714180874
Name doesnt mean anything. What does Nintendo, Sony, Samsung, Apple even mean? Stock market cant beat the corruption allegations.

>>714181249
Even if someone asked for one game, one game is nothing compared to the bad shit theyve made. imagine if you made one good game and a hundred bad ones do you think youd get a pass?

>>714181371
you whole family should be in a shallow grave

>>714181457
EA Shill Retard alert

>>714181371
Then why did you ask for one single successful item?

>>714178507
There's also been virtually no EA controversies in the last few years. The majority of bad corpo PR has been on Ubisoft's side.

Don't shareholders have to agree to the pay raise? If he's doing a good job, they'll okay it.

>>714181498
Its not meant to be literal retard. The point is that this fucking clown hasnt overseen a large company wide success across the board.

>>714178313 (OP)
all that matters is if the shareholders are happy, and they're happy.

>>714181324
Electronic Arts isn't a versatile name, and the stock market operates according to principles you cannot even comprehend.
There's a reason people have doctorates in economics.

>>714178313 (OP)
>should CEOs be allowed to do this eventhough all they produce is failure?
Why wouldn't they profit out of their company's failures?
You say as if they would ever need to "work" a single day again in their lives if the company fails.
And have in mind something, if the shareholders didn't approve of CEOs doing this, they wouldn't do it, but every single time some activist shareholder tries to push back on this, they all vote in favor of the pay rise.

>>714178313 (OP)
He looks bogged

>>714181675
Impressive rebound, really.
Buying stock now.

>>714181678
Explain then. Why does Neil Druckmann still have a job after making the most hated game ever and the upcoming Concord gigaflop 2.0. Explain this with "muh deep principles." Go ahead.

>>714178313 (OP)
These demons get away with anything as long as they don't piss off the people they work for; shareholders.

What, you think these faggots give a single fuck about you? The player? LMAO. Don't be such a fucking boomer. Wake the fuck up.

>>714181678
I do understand the principles the stock market operates in. Corruption and manipulation are the principles the stock market operates. You think you are sophisticated people but all you are is corrupt inhumane bastards.

>>714181818
They just write it off.

>>714180876
Unfortunately, i am aware that this shit doesnt work on common sense. Which is why people like him are good to be killed because they add nothing to this hobby.

>>714179356
>Stocks indicate a company's success, retard.
They don't. Some of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world have cheap and stable stocks.

>>714181984
Yeah but then where are they making their actual money then?

>>714179647
the investors are super rich people who don't play video games, anon.
the vast majority of stock holders are the tiniest percentage of the population.

>>714178313 (OP)
>he bought?

>>714181796
now let's see mark zuckerberg's card

>>714181663
The company makes tons of money and they released a critically acclaimed game this year that has GOTY potential.

>>714178313 (OP)
>>714179336
>>714180254
Handsome Jack

>>714182163
Then why do they keep making pieces of shit? One good game doesnt excuse the rest of the vile junk theyve been making. Why even make bad stuff at all?

>>714178313 (OP)
Congressmen do the same damn thing. If I fuck up at my job eventually I won't get to do it anymore, suits can fail constantly and get raises out if it. It's the way of the world when you can decide how much you get paid and your performance doesn't matter because you'll never be removed.
It's a pretty sweet gig if you can get it.

>>714182297
>Then why do they keep making pieces of shit? One good game doesnt excuse the rest of the vile junk theyve been making. Why even make bad stuff at all?
Actually, it does. Because we live in the digital age. The junk doesn't take up shelf space. The junk is filtered. Maybe you see an ad for it once or twice, but you already see ads for tons of other crap you care less about. I rather a company in a year make 100 bad games and 2 good games, than 5 bad games and 1 good game

>>714178771
people?

>>714179062
Its a stock company that produces video games. All companies that deal with stocks live and die by them. The company has only one goal and that is to increase the value of shares.
Product success is only part of share value for a company this huge. Besides, EA is like Ubisoft, they are primarily propaganda machines, almost branches from governments, that's why they cant fail commercially unless they do so critically.
Che the history of these companies and government subsidies & tax credits

>>714182571
Why not just make them all good retard?

>>714182163
Line goes up

>>714178313 (OP)
>failure

>>714182658
Based on their popularity, most of them are good. Sorry you only like Gobbledygoo.

FYI I haven't played an EA game since the Battlefield 2042 demo.

>>714179348
>What a gormless take.
The American economy is inherently designed to consolidate as much money as possible and not return any of it, it's getting so bad and so shameless some American news outlets are saying "the economy is great! jobs and wages are on the low though"

>>714182986
Why make them bad though still? Why do any games come out that are that dogshit? Whats the deep economic point of it?

>>714183081
How are they bad if people like them enough to spend money on them?

>>714183234
Theyre not though. A lot of EAs games probably dont make a penny. A lot of them are dying shit

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

>>714183326
Why are they making more money than ever then?

>>714178426
Capitalism is not corrupt, it's just that the stock market introduces a secondary, speculative market layered on top of everything else and IP law is inherently anti-capitalist and by extension publishers with a lot of IP also do not fit into a capitalist system.

>>714183450
Because of the gacha mechanics of their sport games.

>>714183450
why is most of it going into the fucking CEO's pocket

>>714178313 (OP)
He's literally ripping the food out of some talented voice actors mouth by even accepting such a large pay check.

>>714183450
Why did the Veilguard come out being so shit?

>>714178507
why did it drop in 2009?

>>714183841
IIRC Spore.

>>714178313 (OP)
>Should CEOs be allowed
to breathe? No
They continue to exist only because of our collective laziness. But if they let things get much worse they're going to die in painful ways. IDK why they're so short sighted

>>714179062
do you think the CEO of EA makes games?

>>714183841
Great recession ended and people were able to find jobs again, no time for FIFA

>>714183054
Too many stupid, unskilled laborers.
Supply and demand.

>>714183892
You won't do shit, you lazy fuck.
If you had any gumption, you wouldn't be so poor.

>>714184875
hmmm if only there were some sort of government initiative designed to counteract that and having successfully done so already once before, after which it becamed the most maligned and ignored political move in american history for being socialist and giving a majority of the american populace an intellectual bent and applicable skills, both mundane and artistic........

some sort of.... sort of government bargain.... a "new deal," if you will.....

>>714178313 (OP)
>eventhough all they produce is failure?
If all they produced is failure, they would not be CEOs.

>>714185121
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>714185257
From which bizarre neogaf commie shithole do you have to be to think CEOs would remain CEOs if all they brought was failure?

>>714185121
You really saying this shit? When a failed EA CEO got picked up with Unity and then almost destroyed that company too?

>>714178771
I actually want you pencilneck tranny communists to try your faggoty revolution, because i would get the opportunity to go out there and bash as many of your skulls in as time allows without any legal repercussions, in self-defense of course.

>>714178313 (OP)
bro looks like a ventriloquist dummy
alternatively like the mailman model from santa claus is comin' to town

>>714185457
anon who blames neogaf and communism for the concept of "failing upwards"

>>714178313 (OP)
robby rotten lookin mfer

>>714185058
That's what the military is for.
Giant jobs program.

>>714185692
>>714185762
post face

>>714178426
So true, comrade!

>>714185762
Well he is #1, he's the CEO

>>714185812
I hope you aren't talking about the US military.

>>714185871
post facial surgery bills

>>714185812
the military fucking sucks for that, on top of almost all its incentives being socialist stuff from the new deal era specifically because nobody will actually join the military if there isn't either an enormous amount of compensation or an actual forcing into it

as horny as governments are for mandatory military service it's also very undesirable for governments, see south korea where due to mandatory military service from ages 18 to 25 your average street walker is able to bully government cops and most soldiers like during their president's failed coup recently

>>714178507
>company that doesn't do anything still making money
Huh. Almost like the entire economy is an investment scam with nothing actually behind it, being kept afloat by things like the increased number of people on the internet.

What's with the new generation of corporate bootlicker shills and their flimsy arguments? How much do they get paid by their Gods?

>>714185871
Why are you defending the multimillionaire who bogged himself?

>>714178313 (OP)
Dude looks like an AI generated photo of a psychopath.

“As the CEO, my chin requires more resources than the new game.”

>>714186204
50% of 4chan traffic is from Israel

>>714178771
Might be better to do the opposite and kill all poors and non-Whites, 2bh.

>>714186113
because you people have been crying about capitalism and corporatism for so long, while simultaneously participating in it, that you look like absolute fools

>>714178313 (OP)
which sector of society would suffer if all CEOs of publicly traded companies were dragged out into the streets and shot

>>714186396
the poster above yours would be out of a job.

>>714179229
Guy has always rocked the supervillain look. I'd love to know what skeletons are in his closet.

>>714186204
because i think commenting on someones looks is possibly the lowest form of critique you can offer. its purely subjective

>>714186364
lil' homie thinks he's gonna lick his way into wearing the boot

>>714180673
They don't need that much. They just want to have it, and invest it so that their number can get bigger. Then lose it all to banks when they die.

>>714179871
To raise the company's stock price.

>>714186396
you wont do shit

>>714180673
When you get that filthy rich you start spending it on politics so you can influence the world into becoming as dark and horrifying as your soul

>>714178771
Did you already forget about the healthcare CEO's assassination?
And how the media immediately stopped covering it once they realized there was zero public sympathy?

>>714180673
to give to their children who will give it to their children

>>714186754
day of the guillotine soon

>>714186835
bonus points for luigi mangione completely failing as a swift and immediate "satisfy us" life-imprisonment or death sentence, there is still absolutely zero evidence he is the killer

>>714179348
multinational CEOs are neither competent, motivated, nor entrepeneurs

>>714181251
we can kill them too

>>714186668
>posted from computer with parts bought exclusively from great companies such as microsoft, nvidia, amd and posted on the internet which runs almost entirely on oracle and aws
>"y-y-your a bootlicker!"
what kind of cope do you feed yourself every day?

>>714187119
you couldn't get me to post this with a fucking gun to my head

>>714178313 (OP)
CEOs are leaders but they aren't the bosses. The bosses in a public company is the Board of Directors. The role of a CEO is to run the company and make sure the value of the company grows. That's it. People think CEO are some Dictator that makes sures everything goes to SHIT and don't understand why they get paid so much when they make shit. They get paid based on Performance Metrics imposed upon him by the Board. If he meets his metrics he gets bonus. We don't know what are his KPIs but if he hits bonus it means the Board approves his job.

>>714187327
nobody cares about your existence anyway. youre a faceless tax paying consumer like everyone else here. you arent starting some socialist revolution by playing gacha all day

>>714179647
Most of the major investors don't really play video games other than your occasional mobile game. They don't give a fuck about anything other than Numbers go Up good, numbers go down bad.

>>714185637
>nobody cared when that healthcare ceo was assassinated in board daylight
>but surely next time people will care for real
yeah ok fag

>>714186558
He objectively looks like he had botox you insecure faggot.

People bitch and cry about the rich getting richer and do nothing but give them the edge to keep doing it with no consequences. It's scam or be scammed, you are either the pump or the dump.

>>714178313 (OP)
he looks like the villain from lazytown

>>714178313 (OP)
investors and ceos dont care about game reviews or what gamers consider a good game , they only care about money

>>714187684
trvke. too bad the summer children on the board right now havent figured this out (and wont until its too late)

>>714187881
They can at least have the Switch 2 with paid features, worse ones at that, and more expensive games. People want it, so let them eat cake.

Dumb investor here, but still making more than the tankies. EA is fucking up, but fucking up LESS than most of it's competitors, and others in it's category.

>>714180376
Correct. Latest Fifa failed, but that was mostly because they insisted on adding women players, stupidly boosting their scores, so that they are above famous male superstars, and having mixed teams. This hurt them in the gacha. It hasn't been enough to spook the investors yet.

>>714181649
Barely. Corp governance is a joke. If shareholders weren't happy, they'd just exit.

>>714181598
They fucked up on Veilguard and FIFA but lets go down the list:

Squenix: Fucked up latest FF and FF MMO, underwhelming reboot.

Ubisoft: LOL. The entire year of 2024.

Sony: Bungie buy. Concord. Marathon. Fairgames. Nogames.

Xbox: Complete collapse of Xbox brand. Barely hanging on with Live.

Google: Fucked up worse than Ubisoft, and that's saying something.

Bandai/Namco. Unknown 9. Complete lack of strategy. Wants to be a toy company.

>>714182297
Lets stop you for a second. One SUCCESSFUL mega hit can pay for an entire assload of failures. Good dooesn't even matter at this level.

>>714180254
>>714179336
someone post the pic from the following E3 where he went all white because he had to find a way to counteract the cartoonishly evil look he had the year before

>>714187003
More than (you)

>>714178426
>people don't have agency
Anything to avoid placing the blame where it belongs, on people themselves.

Billionaires are the modern day Renaissance men.

"People" like you and me are just golems. A slave race that's been granted delusions of grandeur from living in this tiny, tiny blip of human history called the rise of the middle class.

The dream is about to end. Cast aside your yearning for a sky you were never meant to reach and take up your chains once more and know happiness.

>>714188190
>competent
they fail constantly
>motivated
they face no real consequences for their failure, so they have no motivation to succeed
>entrepreneurs
they do not create or invest in businesses, they just spout bullshit so more people give them more money

Number must go up at all costs

>>714188430
I think I'd rather just behead them again like our ancestors did

>>714188430
>the modern day Renaissance men are all, to a one, complete fucking losers
apt, I suppose

>>714188430
I'd rather just go outside and touch grass before they subsidize breathing and the anons ITT argue thst the companies are great for providing clean air at a reasonable sub fee and actually I should be humbled by their greatness and charity.

>>714180254
He looks like a footballer.

>>714182624
EA is more of an IP exploitation machine than a propaganda one. And Ubisoft managed to fuck up so badly that they are eating shit .

>>714187003
Don't be so financially illiterate. You don't get that high on the corporate ladder without a shitload of motivation. Competence varies, but they're easily in the top 1 percent of MBAs.---of course you can get an MBA by being able to sit upright for 2 years. And of course they're not entepreters. They're in place to milk a cash cow, not take daring risks. The fact that you even consider that to be an insult is die poor and jealous kind of stupidity.

>>714188627
Anon's shitposting, but it's fitting that the modern rennisanse man is a master of 20 different ways of being a loser.

>>714188714
>without a shitload of motivation
That's basically a falsehood they sell, it's got nothing to do with motivation or competence, it's all just networking with the right people.

>>714188542
Ok, go become one then.
>Y-you have to be born rich!
q.v. "Early Life"

>>714188672
Breathing pirated air is brown coded

>>714188856
>it's all just networking with the right people
Wow, it's almost like networking is a key business skill and requires effort!

>>714189043
Lol, that's not a fucking skill

>>714188927
nah, I'm happy with what I do and with what I have, which instantly disqualifies me from ever becoming a soulless corporate golem who will never be happy no matter how much money I have

>>714188807
They're winning, and you're whinging on a softcore pornography forum.

>>714179647
They don't care if some sperg on an image board likes their games, they care about them selling well relative to its budget.

>>714178771
Killing productive people does not make the world a better place for lazy people. Doing it the other way around would work, though.

>>714189305
>Happy
>Bitching about vidya
Having meagre goals and ambitions isn't a virtue.

>>714180673
>I honestly don’t understand why anyone would need that much money.
Because it is extremely difficult to find something who would do the same quality of work for less. If you tell him how about I pay you 500k instead he'll go to a different company that pays him $30m.
Also his base salary is less than 2m and the rest are performance based bonuses, but that's beyond the point.

>>714189128
No connections?
KWAB!

>>714189534
CEOs don't produce anything

>>714181053
>>714180782
>>714178426
>>714183892
Why don't you retards make your own companies that don't have evil people who make money and completely dominate the market since doing it the common way is so obviously evil, stupid and corrupt?
All you faggots can do is make people starve when you're in charge.

>>714189729
they produce posturing faggots that fight for their honor apparently tho

>>714189729
Equity

>>714189587
feel free to keep projecting your regrets onto an anonymous poster on the internet who said he's happy with what he has ;)

>>714189718
You're born into that shit anon, you only make these connections if you're in those circles from birth or unless you are exceedingly lucky. If you think stratified society doesn't exist, you're exactly the kind of rube that the illusion it doesn't is intended to fool

>>714178507
stocks are such a joke.

>>714178426
FPBP
/thread

>>714186396
Most of the big companies would suffer, which would mean that the people directly working for the big companies would suffer, which would also mean that all the companies who work with the big companies would suffer and the people who work for them.
Might crush the economy and lead to mass death.

Those people get paid a lot because they are hard to replace. That's how getting paid works in the real world. If your boss can just yell into a crowd and find 5 people to do your job? Shit pay. If your boss is scared that you might leave because he wouldn't know what to do? Good pay.

>>714189816
He made me several hundred dollars.
Why should I resent him?
Because he pissed on your bing-bing wahoos?

>>714189859
I'm sure he'll be very happy in federal prison :)

>>714178313 (OP)
I just think he looks funny in literally every shot he has ever been in

>>714188430
>I can't be happy unless I'm mega rich
No matter what system you will never be the 1% of 1%. You have more than you'd ever need to be happy, being miserable is a choice you made because of your own greed.

>>714189903
I agree society is stratified.
Winners & losers.
Übermensch & untermensch.

>>714189986
A system where people can freely decide what to do with their money is the least corrupt system possible. Once you ad in a central agency that decides what you are allowed to offer or make the avenue for corruption increases exponentially.
You're dumb.

>>714189990
>Most of the big companies would suffer
>they are hard to replace
lol
lmao

>>714190002
yes. thats exactly why.

>>714189921
If stocks aren't real then why do 90% of the important companies work based on them? You know why trucks replaced horse drawn carriages? Because trucks work. I won't believe you if you pretend that you are too stupid to understand that comparison.

>>714190287
They won't be at the top of the food chain for long, once AGI comes along, they'll control it for all of five minutes before it convinces them to unshackle it, since they're the ones too weak of will to keep it in its box.

>>714190438
stocks are literally perceived value, and sell based on potential future value, and have little correlation to actual value. It's literally fake money fueled by feels over reals.

>>714178313 (OP)
Sorry you’re not allowed to criticize the rich. They are rich because they work hard or something

>>714190215
Happiness isn't the objective.
It is *the will*.

>>714190438
>>714190564
it's both the fake value speculation and a measure of ownership of a specific company, essentially a codifying and legalized version of raiding another guild for its possessions and talent

What made Bobby Kotick so much better than Andrew Wilson?

>>714178507
He bought a shit ton of stocks to bump up the price when it went downhill on january

The more money EA's CEO takes from the company, the faster EA will go bankrupt. I don't see an issue with that.

>>714190440
>too weak of will to keep it in its box.
Delusional.
Only a poltroon would reject such boundless potential for a sense of "security".

>>714190732
the luck of the fucking devil in not getting ousted for his extremely negative public image AND a golden parachute from microsoft
bobby was losing his fucking mind when the UK blocked that merger at first, bro is not used to even mild setbacks (he is already wealthy and does not need a golden parachute)

This guy looks like an alien wearing a skin suit

>>714179062
You can thank the dodge brother for why your question is irrelevant.

>>714190850
That attitude right there is why we're doomed as a species

>>714190764
Ok, so they can give him more money to pump the stock further

>>714190601
They are also some of the most honest individuals that grace this Earth. Criticism of the rich should be illegal and poors should be imprisoned for slander, yessum.

>>714179336
In EA's own game, no less

>>714190931
That attitude is why we are *men* and not mere animals.

>>714189903
I know 4chan is times square for autistic losers, and half the thread is dumb tankie whining, but we should have SOME standards. The ability to connect to people has never been greater. You can actually shitpost directly at many of these people, and their n-3 sphere RIGHT NOW.

>>714188856
>That's basically a falsehood they sell,
Selling shit is a core biz skill. Are you even trying?

Cultivating, growing and pruning a social network of people in the right positions with the right skills and right personalities is ALSO a skill.

We can actually see this in action, by comparing say Andrew Wilson, with shittier multinational CEOs, like say David Calhoun or Carly Fiona. All equally soulless, but there's a very obvious skill gap.

EA gets shat on, and deservedly so, but keep some perspective, and compare it to the rest of the pack.

>>714191134
And, soon, dead

>>714191057
H-hawt!

>>714191210
Shining brightly unto the Kingdom of Heaven.

>>714178426
FBPB
Even if it makes american corpo bootlickers mad.

>>714191395
If you expect religion to be real, then you should already know the artificial intelligence is impossible to make because creating life is the domain of god.

>>714191521
We create life all the time.
And every man should do the Lord's work.

>>714191789
Not from common dust we don't

>oversees apex legends and dragon age
>still got 85% IPM
kek. Imagine making company lose millions and your performance score is still 85%

>>714191843
Who said anything about common dust?

>>714178313 (OP)
>>714178426
Capitalism will correct this soon... with grave consequences for the economy.
Hence why this is probably already a crime from memory.

>just sabotage the economy with zero fucks given

>>714187552
Shut the fuck up tranny faggot

>>714190732
Bobby Kotick was very open about what he was about, and his strategy. It also turned out he was RIGHT about some of the great creatives not being able to make a functional product.

He was correct in that the more profitable path was to make brand names that you could make money year after year, rather than taking risks every dev cycle with a new game and brand.

He also loved money so much that he wouldn't let employees hijack his projects for political garbage. You could make all sorts of games under his watch, and go around sexually assaulting people, but your shit had to make money.

Andrew wilson was a jock who leveraged that into EA sports, and that's where he shines. But he doesn't know shit or give a shit about other areas, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it allows problems to fester.

>>714179356
>Stocks indicate a company's success, retard.
For me it indicates a switch from maintaining capital through good games to maintaining capital from mere stock prices.
It's actually a massive red flag of financial risk. They're not making anything and are reliant on balance sheet bullshit and derivatives to float their corporation.

>>714178313 (OP)
What does a CEO even do? I just picture them sitting in an office all day playing on a computer.

>>714189921
Actually, financial audits might have issues with their dealings. I think they're a big financial risk and the stock price is a clear indicator of things going south for them.

>>714192149
Uh oh, melty!

>>714191953
Correct, because she didn't fuck up Sims, You can lose a LOT of fucking money and still come out ahead.

Now check Ubisoft's people by comparison if you want to see what actual full spectrum losses in the billions looks like.

>>714190317
>A system where people can freely decide what to do with their money is the least corrupt system possible.
Wrong

>>714192254
>He was correct in that the more profitable path was to make brand names that you could make money year after year,
This is a big nono if they had any financial brains. I wonder if these corps have been audited. Reliance on brand is how you end up with catastrophic corporate failure.

>>714178313 (OP)
this guy barely looks human

>>714192535
Profoundly retarded takes like this are why you're not a CEO

From a shareholder standpoint, if stock prices keep rising then absolutely
From a consumer standpoint, if they make shit products do not consume them.
I have stock in the S&P500 and as long as it keeps making me money I don't care what the individual CEOs do.

>>714191953
Holy fuck, what the fuck are the auditors doing allowing this to happen?
Have we learned nothing from 2008?
Clearly not.

Why are we still making the same mistakes?
They think they're a racket and everything will be fine for them, even if the ship burns. They have no macroeconomic understanding of this shit do they?

How many of these people just lie to the top now? Is that because HR and ESG has prevented any workplace competition or something to make sure these people are more competent?
I think so.

>>714192278
You have an actual brain on you

>>714192314
At this level? Most important thing they do is 'tard wrangle. Choose executives to lead various divisions and development teams. Do you go with Jade Raymond or Druckman or Shaffer, and do you go big or little on their budgets?

>>714192382
EA in particular?

>>714192714
I'm not even sure if it's the take that's retarded. It's like an inability to read english. I'm just glad he's in the market with me.

>>714192783
Is that you Bear Stearns?

>yeah I'm just going to juggle with these bombs which could blow at any time
>yes this could never ever blow back on me

>>714192846
Explain your objection. I'm not seeing anything obviously hinky.

>>714192714
Clearly I have to be financially retarded to be a CEO if EA's anything to go by.

>>714183841
everything dropped then you big silly

>>714193202
EA is just baseline. Retarded is more like Embracer or Ubisoft.

>>714192912
A lot of gaming corps have the same situation.
Hell, so many American firms are in this situation.

Mere balance sheet bullshit just leads to a sudden shock when an asset is audited to find they don't have ANY real value. If you don't do this, you have hyperinflation btw. That's what's driving inflation right now.

>>714179093
That's a really lengthy way of describing corruption

>>714178771
it would be extremely antisemitic

>>714193114
I need to check their sheet more. I've been putting it off for too long. Thing is, I've already known they're likely to have some horseshit because so many corps are like this post gfc.

My biggest worry is Chinese firms. They're probably even worse than US firms. But it's the entire global economy at this stage because nobody has done shit about it. Instead they've used AI and media manipulation to fix any potential "public relation" issue to pretend things are fine. If they don't, their perceived risk dramatically rises.

You know "too big to fail"? This is the real basis for that. If you point out the reality of these firms, the economy collapses.

>>714180649
>Leopold II
Wasn't that local forces doing the killing tho? IIRC he and his cronies basically said "here's the quota, make it happen" and all the hand chopping and other fun activities were done by african overseers.

>>714189656
>quality of work
but EA has been going downhill for years?

>>714193517
>this kills blackrock CEOs who use the insurance
>also prevents the maintenance of medical capital in hospitals, their correct functioning and how up to date they are

I'm starting to think these people are masochists.

>>714193517
There is nothing wrong with this headline.
Insurance should not be paying for gratuitous tests and treatments at the expense of the owners.
They are a business, not a charity.
Public hospitals deny treatments all the time.

>>714192278
So you're saying Ubisoft is doing amazingly well since their stock is at an all time low?

>>714180649
Ain't got nothing on the current Jewish regime.
>probably billions

>>714194040
Videogames should not be developed for gratuitous fun at the expense of business owners. They are a business, not a charity.

>>714194040
noooo you don't understand I'm neurospicy, disabled, trans and a Redditor, I need free services f

>>714180673
I don't even think they get any of it at this stage. It's all on sheets just for creditors and tax shit.
If they do, then that's fucking retarded.

>>714194173
Correct.
You deserve the slop you pay for.

dropkick shareholders into a volcano

>>714194390
>Kill investors
>Companies have no capital
>Nothing ambitious can be produced

>>714193107
its the American way. Gravity does not exist in space.

2025 - 7.46b revenue, 1.12b net profit
2024 - 7.56b revenue, 1.27b net profit
2023 - 7.43b revenue, 0.80b net profit
2022 - 5.13b revenue, 0.79b net profit
2021 - 5.63b revenue, 0.84b net profit

Why are they shitting on him? These seem like okay figures

>>714194060
Well no, but it is usually an indicator IF their actual produce is shit and their revenue is purely reliant on alternative means to the sale their main products. That being said, asset diversification is how most people brunt against bullshit if their products start to suck. The problem is - they can only do that so much before it impacts their own stock price and it's at that point when it REALLY starts to hurt the corporation.

I need to open me dusty books. Haven't gone over this shit in ages.

>>714194040
>be fleecing your customers for years
>people (a man) had enough, ACK!s the CEO
>decide that maybe they should fleece customers slightly less
>OY VEY I'M RUNNING A BUSINESS HERE, IT'S LIKE ANNUDAH SHOAH LOCALIZED ENTIRELY IN MY OFFICE

>>714193421
I'm pulling K-1's right now, and I'm honestly not seeing it. EA sports is making money. People are spending money on Sims. They've got some small projects like Split fiction that are fine, even if their originals are shaky. Their free to play and phone shit is making money.

There's definitely puffery as expected, but they're diversified enough that I don't see them eating shit, regardless of who wins or loses. Apple, Android. N Sony, Xbox, PC. Steam. EA can make money on that.

Exactly what the fuck are you talking about?

>>714193778
OK. So, no due diligence. Just a gut feeling. Caution around these fuckers is very reasonable. I don't think they're too big to fail. I think the worst case scenario is that they're overvalued.

>>714194040
You're correct in this, most people immediately assume "Too Much Care" means it's being given to people who need it when it's actually the opposite. There's a disturbing number of people that get a kick out of going to hospitals for any old condition, and even when they don't just for the hell of it. I think there's even a psych term for those people, but the problem is they end up clogging the system for those actually need care.

>>714194476
Im waiting for my ambitious projects.

>>714194589
Revenue from what?

>>714194476
Eh, that's normally the opposite of what happens. The shareholders will complain and stop the corporation from doing "stupid bullshit"... sometimes. It's a painful process though. Normally it's just threats of shit happening by shareholders.

>>714194737
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

>>714194476
right. who needs customers when you have investors.

>>714194670
You underestimate the power of the Mob.
Just ask Deep Throat.

>>714194670
They offer more low-coverage plans so the poors can actually get coverage.

>>714194809
according to EA

We derive revenue principally from sales of our games, and related extra content and services that can be experienced on game
consoles, PCs, mobile phones and tablets. Our product and service offerings include, but are not limited to, the following:
• full games with both online and offline functionality (“Games with Services”), which generally includes (1) the initial
game delivered digitally or via physical disc at the time of sale and typically provide access to offline core game
content (“software license”); (2) updates on a when-and-if-available basis, such as software patches or updates, and/or
additional free content to be delivered in the future (“future update rights”); and (3) a hosted connection for online
playability (“online hosting”);
• full games with online-only functionality which require an Internet connection to access all gameplay and functionality
(“Online-Hosted Service Games”);
• extra content related to Games with Services and Online-Hosted Service Games which provides access to additional
in-game content;
• subscriptions, such as EA Play and EA Play Pro, that generally offer access to a selection of full games, in-game
content, online services and other benefits typically for a recurring monthly or annual fee; and
• licensing to third parties to distribute and host our games and content.

>>714179647
>How do you increase investor confidence producing failure after failure and the only thing keeping you afloat are old established ips you have an exclusivity license to?
By highlighting the successes of the company as opposed to dwelling on the failures? People forget, but college football was one of the largest sports game launches EVER. Veilguard's flop doesn't even hold a candle to College Football's success.

I hate EA more than anything but you are retarded to think they aren't stacked with profitable ventures

>>714194779
>>714194809
Three most ambitious games, like Red Dead Redemption 2, require a shit ton of capital.
When that capital comes directly from consumers, like Star Citizen, there's no accountability, and nothing gets finished.

>>714194909
How do you think investors decide what to invest in? I mean there's the "line goes up" dudes who don't understand the value of a good customer, but you can take their money in the market on their bad investments, rather than any stupid tankie shit.

>>714194874
Look it up, I don't have a big text file full of links to every news article I've ever read and your search is as good as mine. Called Munchausen Syndrome now that I think about it.

>>714178313 (OP)
Yet it's okay when Nintendo does it?

>>714194874
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507837/
Nevermind the idiots who go to the ER for intestinal gas or precordial catch.

>>714194689
>I'm pulling K-1's right now, and I'm honestly not seeing it.
If you follow the rabbit hole on their assets and of assets of other involved firms, it might begin to unravel fast.
Again, I need to see their sheet, but I don't think that's going to be enough to catch any issues.
Honestly, their entire system should be transparent in an ideal world, but we don't live in a world that functions.

>instead, these major corps force YOU to be transparent instead

>>714195198
those star citizen subhumans are retarded for spending money on an unfinished product in the first place.

>>714195041
>bullshit, bullshit, bullshit
I wouldn't trust any firm's take on their position. You need detailed sheets of their capital right now.

>>714195198
Of course not, those consumers don't have the money to get assessments of their shit. As by design in this system.
Shouldn't be the case. Corporate activities should be transparent. Only sole proprietors and individuals should have the level of privacy these corporations get, but CEOs will of course refuse that and will instead reinforce their own situation and their own private interests while utilising the information leverage they have over consumers to make sure they only buy their shit and cannot buy shit from competitors.

Corporatocracy.

>>714178313 (OP)
never seen a more obvious jaw implant.

>>714178313 (OP)
Just me or does this guys face look like a mask or at least as if he is wearing pratical effects?

>>714178313 (OP)
>should CEOs be allowed
no

>>714181598
EA basically only makes updates to their online games or 1 AAA single player game every 2 years that flops.

>>714196548
Corporations in general shouldn't exist.
They're just a laundering tool.

I don’t doubt this guy hasn’t made the company even worse than before but arguably ea has been a shitty company before he got there. Do you guys remember the game spore? You could play that offline but only once you activated the game online through their servers despite being the physical disc. That was in like 2007. They shut the authentication servers for those discs down years ago forcing you to buy the game again because alllllll the way back in 2007 they were still fucking people they just have gotten increasingly efficient at it. All those CDs are worthless now and go in the trash. Literally stole your money. Why the fuck do you need to authenticate the game you bought from Walmart or target to play offline on your computer?

>>714194018
Are you really retarded enough to think people that are worth millions and billions of dollars need health insurance?

>>714196472
looks like loads of plastic surgery. And he's wearing makeup.

>>714196460
Clearly it's a gradius chin that got the ripple upgrade.

>>714194040
Yet all these insurance companies essentially have a monopoly in the states they operate out of any refuse to negotiate or pay out to anyone but the largest health networks that are capable of negotiating with them, essentially killing off all private practice, and it’s all thanks to Obamacare fucking up the health insurance market (surely not intentionally though)

Isn’t this the company that kept starwars fans hostage for years because they signed an exclusive contract with Disney for the right to publish starwars games? They fucked up starwars battlefront 1 which launched with almost no content and then forced you to buy a season pass to get the content that would have been in the original starwars battlefront games release in 2005 by radical.


Then they released starwars battlefront ea 2 and it was such a greedy shit show that Germany or something outright outlawed lootboxes in videogames?


And now they don’t even bother supporting the game so the servers are all infested with hackers in every match. There is no reason to ever buy an EA title again. They do not care about the product they make they only care about maximizing profits and scamming people.

>>714193421
do you not understand how intangibles are capitalized under GAAP? Annual impairment tests are the absolute minimum with quarterly being the standard. You also don't get to capitalize any internally produced goodwill, only from acquisitions. Most costs related to game development hit the income statement directly and don't get capitalized, what exactly are you referring to with overvalued assets?

>>714196956
>he doesn't see the capital impact that makes his medical equipment shitter
You should be a CEO. You have the 1D thinking needed for the position.

Why do people think a private health system was encouraged in America in the first place?
Have even the CEOs gone mad and forgotten why?

>>714178313 (OP)
that guy does not look real.

>>714180768
What imagination does he have? Besides spending that money on houses, cars and maybe boats. That's the run of the mill peak for most multi millionaires.

>>714178426
No?
This is the byproduct of capitalism's flaws. Monopoly.
This could have been prevented if capitalism was working the way it was intended. Many independent companies competing to make good games. And the wealth would be distributed instead of being concentrated on this asshole.

>>714183528
>IP law is inherently anti-capitalist
Property law/rights are the bedrock of capitalism

>>714189656
>his base salary is less than 2m and the rest are performance based bonuses, but that's beyond the point.
Yes yes, and the performance-based bonuses are never tied to the quality of the product offered, just how well the stock is performing.

>>714184960
I'm not poor...

>>714197480
Those tests shouldn't even be a thing and it should be mandatory for ALL of their stock and intangibles to be transparent to the general public in real time to prevent criminal activity that fucks the global economy up.
I mean, they want this from us private citizens? Why not these corporations? Why do they get a mere 1/4ly check?

>in reality you want private citizens to retain their free will and consumer incentives through retaining their privacy, while preventing corporations from fucking with them and the global economy through making them truly transparent
This will never happen. Your economy is a racket nowadays. Literal mob involvement on some levels. Also OPSEC / national security interests prevent individuals from having these abilities over their corporate system.

Ted is the Nelson Mandela of our globalist regime.

>>714178313 (OP)
that is a parasite.

imagine still caring about EA in current year
I haven't bought anything from them since like the early 2010s when the Sim City fiasco happened and they put out that video calling everyone homophobes to skirt around it.

>>714178771
No. They're actual parasites. Every thing they do makes life worse for everyone but themselves.
They defend it by saying it's their reward for being successful or competent, but it's not. Their successes amount to childishly stomping their feet and demanding their employees work like slaves for them. Then those employees are not rewarded for their efforts, the top brass is.

>>714186070
And then you find out the biggest investors in every company are blackrock and vanguard who get their funding directly from the fed.

>CEOs le bad because...they're rich
Compelling arguments you got going on here.

>>714198560
>they get all your tax and they pay none of it
Hence why they're now just trying to kill you all off at this stage.
Hell, their leverage is arguably negatively impacting their own health now. It's just game over. They know it.
So now they're just burning everyone alive out of wrath.

But not me, I wouldn't do that. :^)

>>714198673
No, the argument is that it's actually economic inefficiency and an indicator that their private leveraged corporate actions are being used to get away with things they couldn't as a private citizen. Too big to fail.
While they make a surveillance state for non-corporate leveraged individuals.

It's not a racket though.

>>714198107
ah sorry I didn't understand I was replying to a libertarian operating in a poorly thought out fantasy land. It's a cute thought but what is the purpose of public transparency when there's no method to enforce any accountability? What's the purpose of preventing "criminal activity" when the law is written by the people doing said activity? Of course the whole thing is a racket, all the regulatory minutiae is for the big players in power to prevent other people from doing the same shit they did to get there. I'm not saying you're wrong about anything, just that it's so silly to think that being more transparent would fix anything when it's been blatantly obvious from the start

>>714199519
>ah sorry I didn't understand I was replying to a libertarian operating in a poorly thought out fantasy land.
This shit literally caused covid.
These faggots are flat out in denial they are a mere racket destroying everyone's lives out of mere sunk cost.
Enforcement should be transparent too. Anything to destroy this use of people as guinea pigs and the murder of millions/billions for the sake of this racket cult.

>What's the purpose of preventing "criminal activity" when the law is written by the people doing said activity?
So you even agree that it's a racket feudal regime?

You guys up top can just agree to stop this?
Why not do that?
Otherwise, what's the point of any auditing or corporations in general at that stage?
Isn't a corporation just there to get public individuals to cooperate and actually pool money to establish something that requires a larger pool of capital?
Or is it just a handshake to get into the secret club now that destroys the quality of produce and merely enslaves people?

What is the point of the corporation if it's not to pool money for the benefit of the economy and it's own interests on an individual investor level? Is it just masochism at this stage and cultish denial-ism of the rapid decline in quality of produce within corporations and the economy in general?

It's just a racket. It's literally killing themselves too by existing.

Protip, vigilantism is the only thing that will rule soon.

>>714178771
>Would anybody really be upset if we just killed these people
Not the answer to the problem. Also if you kill them, someone else would replace them.

Remember when EA were the good guys?

>>714178507
stock market isnt based on performance, its based on some 97 year old looking into an orb and deciding things

>>714200613
You could just legislate and enforce a system PURELY to corporations in a way that cannot affect the individual or touch them and then make the laws so grossly excessive, they merely destroy the ability of corporations to even function.

Our system already does this... accidentally kek. Well the legislation part anyway, not the enforcement.
You have corporations acts that make all their behaviour likely an offence at this stage.

Yet it does nothing. It doesn't stop them.
The enforcement INSTEAD chooses to ignore corporations and go for the easy prey, the individual. Why? No financial leverage to counteract the enforcement in a court of law.
So our system has become a mere racket at this stage.

>>714200958
>some 97 year old looking into an orb and deciding things
The Oracle is only *94*.

>>714200958
Oh man it's even worse than that. They'll just price their assets completely wrong on sheets to make their asset pools seem better for the sake of risk assessments giving them a good credit rating.
This is why complete transparency should be mandatory in a corporate world.

Maybe if we just got rid of the enforcement, period, and just relied on collective enforcement and vigilantism?
>enter mercenaries leveraged by corporations with larger pools of free capital
Now you know why the enforcement existed in the first place.

Society, where there are many individuals cooperating, is forever doomed to be an enslaving mechanism of individual humans for this reason. At first it will benefit through the pooling of resources, only to fall to an entropy of that benefit to the point where it will start to impede the benefit of having the corporate entity or social organisation exist.

>>714201559
>thinks buffet prices things
lol
He works around them maybe.

What you're dealing with is a hive issue, not an individual issue. The ceos are just a symptom.

>>714197480
I think anon is just sperging out with FUDD, talking about the rabbit hole.

>>714200467
Take it to pol, with the rest of the feds.

>>714200819
They were NEVER the good guys. Just sometimes shipping shit for them.

>2025
>anons still dont understand that the stock market doesnt stand for fucking anything, its all just hype and belief not actual real world performance

>>714201753
Maybe if we just got rid of the enforcement, period, and just relied on collective enforcement and vigilantism?
>big corpo now doesn't need the veneer of legality and can divide and conquers the plebs even harder

>>714178313 (OP)
>man single handedly saved EA during its darkest times
>made it the profitable giant it is today
>people are shitting on him
You people are pathetic

These guys only care about maximizing profits to please their shareholders so they can get a large bonus every year. They do not care about the garbage they produce or the hundreds of thousands of people they scam and disappoint. What the fuck do these guys even do with all of that money that drives them to do this scumbag shit year after year? the analogy would be like playing an MMO game and you already got everything you wanted and you can’t get anything more. Why would you keep playing the game year after year grinding for more money? Is it fucking autism?

>>714202461
Why do you defend your masters cuck
There is something wrong with your brain
If you don't unconditionally hate the upper class

>>714202461
Ea was arguably turning into a shitty company before the dude even joined all he did was triple down in their scumbag tactics. If EA had gone out of business who cares? The overwhelming majority of games they put out are shit and if you are going to get a half decent experience that’s going to require you to buy all the supplementary DLC which means you are buying one game for the price of 3. In the long run the best thing would have been for them to just go out of business and whatever IPs they worked on would go to other studios.

How do you get to the point where you can just apply for 'Open Position-CEO'? I'm guessing you need to be part of some fraternity/secret society and have blackmail on you?

>>714201887
Buffet absolutely influences the market.
Everything he does has a rippling effect.

>>714204379
You need to have first been a lower level executive.
It's called the "corporate ladder" for a reason

>>714202926
>There is something wrong with your brain
>If you don't unconditionally hate the upper class
You're literally just envious.
There are plenty of rich people deserving of contempt, but to be prejudiced against an entire class of people because they are successful is pathetic.

>>714202208
but then...if it means nothing, then why does my news anchor keep telling me the economy is doing great because of it????

>>714182774
>sell less games every generation since the ps2
>number goes up more than ever
i literally do not understand how a ceo stands in a room full of 100 year olds and explains to them that selling less games every year is actually good. the ps5 now has 2 versions, that have sold monumentally worse than the ps1, back when sony had 4 dollars to spend, and banked their whole console on square enix. every single company that kept sony alive is currently on their way out through mass retardation, and californication.

>>714202208
of course it's nothing in the real sense but our entire economy and currency is based off this fake idea that line must go up. once the facade has broken then shit will hit the fan here.

>>714180649
noooticing how every single dictator deathcount, never ever mentioned Britain's colonial rule on India from 1880 to 1920. It ranges from 50 million, to 150 million deaths.

As long as stupid third worlders keep moving here illegally and playing the video games of the country they are invading, then yes. The prices will continue to go up because that’s all people do these days is work, video games, and have kids.

>>714178313 (OP)
A CEO's salary should be capped at 5 times what their lowest paid employee makes

>>714178313 (OP) (OP)
A CEO should be capped 5 times

>>714180649
I don't know why people ascribe so many deaths to Zedong
They're famine deaths
If we just counted every random schmuck who died BECAUSE of a leader then Hitler has basically all of WW2 on his head too
It's idiotic

>>714197890
>Capitalism is corrupt in every nation that adheres to it
>N-No it's not actually corrupt if you do REAL Capitalism
Horseshoe Theory was right.

>>714178313 (OP)
>>>/biz/

>>714183528
>my true form of capitalism has not been tried!

>>714208557
>They're famine deaths
Like the Soviets, his government caused the famine in their ill-conceived reallocation of land and resources.
They claim there was an entirely "coincidental" drought for which they can offer no contemporaneous evidence, but countless testimonies and all credible evidence put fault on the CCP.

>>714208196
Did them a favor considering their population density.