These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE General Discussion

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

CCP Games Announces Former EA Executive Sean Decker as Senior Vice President

First post First post First post
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#21 - 2013-07-02 13:36:52 UTC
Ilkahn wrote:
Do we shoot the monument in jita yet?

It might not be a bad idea to move a suitable ship to your nearest designated site of protest in preparation to the inevitable.
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2013-07-02 13:37:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Jarnis McPieksu
Painful quote from the official PR

Quote:

Decker comes to CCP from game developer and publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he spent the last 12 years in a variety of key production leadership roles. Most recently Decker was vice president of EA’s “Play4Free” group, built from the ground up as an integrated organization focused on building, publishing and operating games based on the free-to-play business model. In that role, Decker ran numerous studios around the world that released games played by tens of millions of registered users.


If this guy did not already learn that free-to-play retrofits on existing games kill games, he should be deep-sixed NOW.

Now if he's hired just to try to get Dust not to crater, whatever. It was F2P from day 1 and I have no issues with that there (not that I would ever play it, partly due to ******** F2P)

Edit: Same PR claims he will oversee all franchises

Quote:

Decker will lead the company’s worldwide game development, overseeing the company’s studios in Reykjavik, Shanghai, Atlanta, and Newcastle.


If this muppet says "F2P" or "Microtransactions" and EVE in same sentence, the monument gets it.
BoBoZoBo
MGroup9
#23 - 2013-07-02 13:39:23 UTC
Ahhhh... fu@k....

Why CCP... Why?

Primary Test Subject • SmackTalker Elite
Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#24 - 2013-07-02 13:39:55 UTC

Looking at his history linked above, he has a ton of First Person Shooters on his watch.

So it does look like he should have been hired to Exec Produce Dust, and not EVE.

i would definitely say there are some concerns here with his ability to merge his former mentality and production philosophies with EVEs hardline attitudes.

Where I am.
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#25 - 2013-07-02 13:43:01 UTC
Scrindle Kavees wrote:
If I had a former EA executive on board, I'd rename him Frank.


Why Frank?
That always reminds me of 'cousin Frank' as in the first Hellraiser.
Or is that the point? Shocked
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#26 - 2013-07-02 13:45:41 UTC
De'Veldrin wrote:
Kyt Thrace wrote:
This could truly be a "Eve is Dying" thread.

More like Eve is Dead, Jim.


Minor fix.^
Jonny Monroe
Unlicensed Medical Professionals
#27 - 2013-07-02 13:47:14 UTC
I'll reserve actual judgement until we get more info on what the guy is doing. But in the meantime it's fun to jump on the hyperbole band wagon;

EVE is a game all about backstabbing, underhanded play, deviousness and generally trying your best to screw over every other player, right? At least that's what the low sec players tell me. So CCP hired a guy from a company that is well known for screwing over players. Seems like a perfect fit.
Tyrendian Biohazard
The Bastards
Sedition.
#28 - 2013-07-02 13:48:27 UTC
Bloodpetal wrote:


i would definitely say there are some concerns here with his ability to merge his former mentality and production philosophies with EVEs hardline attitudes.



Exactly my thoughts. To me (my opinion) anyone that would even be considered for a position like that in EA has a mentality and thought process that just will not be suitable for Eve and its community.

Twitch streamer and EVE NT tournament broadcaster.
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2013-07-02 13:50:08 UTC
Jonny Monroe wrote:
I'll reserve actual judgement until we get more info on what the guy is doing. But in the meantime it's fun to jump on the hyperbole band wagon;

EVE is a game all about backstabbing, underhanded play, deviousness and generally trying your best to screw over every other player, right? At least that's what the low sec players tell me. So CCP hired a guy from a company that is well known for screwing over players. Seems like a perfect fit.


The official PR spells it out

Quote:

CCP Games, the world’s leading independent developer of massively multiplayer games, today announced it has hired Sean Decker as its new senior vice president of product development. Decker will lead the company’s worldwide game development, overseeing the company’s studios in Reykjavik, Shanghai, Atlanta, and Newcastle.


Basically oversees all game development at CCP.

Awaiting Damage Control devblog in 3...2...1....
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#30 - 2013-07-02 13:55:11 UTC
Didn't the exodus out of Egypt start like this? It's been a while since I read a Harry Potter book.
Gil Roland
Roma Aeterna
#31 - 2013-07-02 13:55:34 UTC
Scrindle Kavees wrote:
If I had a former EA executive on board, I'd rename him Frank.

Or Don.
Kiori Misoku
State War Academy
Caldari State
#32 - 2013-07-02 13:55:47 UTC
I wouldnt hire anybody from EA...

Mostly because of the backlash, but also because EA's policies and its general worth have shot downhill over the last few years due to overpricing, dlc spam and other such reasons.

Lets just hope hes smart enough to leave it all behind.
Andrea Griffin
#33 - 2013-07-02 13:56:02 UTC
I always believe in giving someone a shot so I'm not going to flame the guy right off, but coming from EA I'm on a "zero tolerance policy" for bovine excrement.

Eve's playerbase is very much unlike the typical gaming playerbase in many ways. I have a feeling we're going to delicately place a giant pile of poo on the ground and he'll stomp a foot right into it. But we'll see.

brb, creating an Amarr character. I feel the need to pray.

CCP Sreegs is my favorite developer.
Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#34 - 2013-07-02 13:58:46 UTC
and here I was, really looking forward to another 10 years of EVE Online.
I guess that dream is now in jeopardy.

F2P / P4F, wash it any way you want to, that model will kill EVE.
Perhaps no more patches eh ? Just pay for the DLC and wooooosh, away you go ?
If he was just at CCP for Dust then *shrug* don't care.
But that's not what the news says, clearly he will be involved in all of the main CCP stuff including EVE.

Sorry CCP, but W..T..H.. ??

COO - Bene Gesserit Chapterhouse  CEO - Sanctuary Pact Alliance
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#35 - 2013-07-02 14:00:04 UTC
Finally... Eve is dying... :(

Sugar Von MurdererTits : Jake Warbird gets my vote for most intriguing and attractive male character in Eve.
Dheeradj Nurgle
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#36 - 2013-07-02 14:01:52 UTC
Looking through his game Credits.... He might not be too terrible, but since it's still EA



OMG, I could log in without paying 5 bucks!
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#37 - 2013-07-02 14:04:56 UTC
Hope he had to submit a FULL API.... Roll

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Jassmin Joy
Pulling The Plug
PURPLE HELMETED WARRIORS
#38 - 2013-07-02 14:07:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Jassmin Joy
baltec1 wrote:
Intar Medris wrote:
The best they could do was hire a guy from EA. EA is only good at one thing ... marketing. As far as games go they suck. Without Madden, NCAA, and The Sims EA would sink faster the Titanic. Not to mention this guy was VP of their P4F division. Makes you wonder if CCP is considering P4F again.


That lesson would be very hard to unlearn.


They've been doing it for months, They're slowly heading back towards incarna, and people cheer and guide them on without even realising, Quote in case. Paying stupid money for golden pods and limited edition stuff.


Edit: Though on a more serious note, People from outside the EVE universe don't tend to understand it's playerbase or the game. And are never usually tuned into how we think, i was hoping they would hire someone from inside the game, or inside ccp already. Taking someone who was high up in a company like EA, given it's reputation seems incredibly silly, but it's probably a way to get incarna back on track again, with the experience of EA. :tinfoil:
Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#39 - 2013-07-02 14:08:39 UTC
Threadnaught by ?

My guess - Wednesday morning 06h00 server time, if this thread does not get locked.

COO - Bene Gesserit Chapterhouse  CEO - Sanctuary Pact Alliance
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2013-07-02 14:08:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Jarnis McPieksu
Dheeradj Nurgle wrote:
Looking through his game Credits.... He might not be too terrible, but since it's still EA



OMG, I could log in without paying 5 bucks!


The credits are missing the bit where he was VP at the :Play4Free: part of EA for a good while. Spoiler: Battlefield Heroes was one of the worst "pay to win" games ever. In case you missed it, this gives a good summary;

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/12/ea-restructures-battlefied-heroes-pricing-fans-enraged/

EA's other "excellent" (I'm being sarcastic here) Play4Free titles include Lord of Ultima (talk about abusing the hallowed name of a franchise, for a crappy browser game) and BattleForge.

I give him +1 rep for his part in some ancient SSI titles, but that's only +1. Rest he has to earn the hard way...