Riccitiello Says Investors Don't Care About Quality
Electronic Humanities CEO Saint John Riccitiello says that while Ea is working hard to improve the quality of its games, investors assume't particularly care about that.
"I don't call up the investors give a shit about our quality," Riccitiello admitted during a lengthy interview with VentureBeat. "They care about our earnings per share. They wait for IT to happen. We had tierce days where we didn't form our expectations. If I were an investor, I would wait and see. That's okay with me."
Touching on the acquisitions of BioWare and Pandemic, he added, "We've got a massively multiplayer online game coming, which we haven't proclaimed. Information technology could be very profitable for us. We got a genuinely constructive reaction to Dragon Age. We've got games like Wrecker in the works. We've got Mass Effect 2 future. Or s of it is 2009 software. If you're cragfast on the fact that the stock is at $45, I toilet't really helper you."
Riccitiello also expressed amusement at the industry's near-obsession with EA's ongoing efforts to acquire Take-Two Mutual, a story which has been for the most part static since it began. "On that point have basically been three moves and there have been 6000 articles on information technology. IT's sort of amusing," he said. "I spirit a little morsel like those strobe light things were it looks like a guy is moving very much. The fanfare goes off but the consistence doesn't go out. Every time a flash goes off, somebody writes a story on it. To be honest with you, the last meter there was news was a couple months ago."
VentureBeat's full Q&A with EA top dog John Riccitiello can be read here.
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