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Announcing the EA Competitive Gaming Division, Led by Peter Moore

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dex3108

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So EA decided to jump on e-sport train


For many of you, the passion for games is defined by competition – a relentless focus on being the best, and leaving your mark on the games you love. It fuels many of the amazing things we see from millions of you playing EA games each day. As this passion continues to grow, we’re committed to creating even more opportunities for you to connect and compete.

Today I am excited to announce that Peter Moore is moving into a new role as Executive Vice President and Chief Competition Officer for Electronic Arts, leading our new EA Competitive Gaming Division (CGD). As the latest step in our journey to put our players first, this group will enable global eSports competitions in our biggest franchises including FIFA, Madden NFL, Battlefield and more. The CGD will be built around three core pillars:

  • Competition – To create highly-engaging competitive experiences with our games, officially supported by Electronic Arts.
  • Community – To celebrate, connect and grow our community of players across all levels of expertise.
  • Entertainment – To develop live events and broadcasting that bring the spectacle of competition to millions of people around the world.
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http://www.ea.com/news/announcing-t...5-tw-img-site-lnch&cid=50483&ts=1449781793305
 
Studio heads fight to the death. Roll both your sleeves up Mr Moore and take them down. There can be only one.
 
Can't wait to see Peter's awesome EA GCD tattoo.

In all seriousness, I think it's hard to make a serious eSports thing these days, it's all very forced with these big companies.
 
EA sports games should not be eSports unless they get rid of scripting and momentum that is in their engines. It's not skill to have the game decided whos going to get a heavy advantage in winning or not.
 
Wait so Peter Moore isn't in charge of EA Sports anymore? Or is EA Sports just the EA Competitive Gaming Division now? Wish them well but that just seems like a demotion.
 
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I wonder what that will mean for Battlefield 5... I really hope they don't screw this up. After Battlefield Hardline and Star Wars Battlefront they have to deliver.
 
I like watching the esports stuff sometimes.. but I'd never watch sports games like FIFA and Madden when their real life counterparts exist. Part of the appeal of watching games for me is that they're scenarios that can't happen in real life. In the case of sports games it's obviously going to be better to watch the real versions.

Can't think of many EA titles that would make good spectator games actually. Maybe Titanfall? They already killed Command & Conquer. Battlefront is way too simple. Battlefield if they change some things. I dunno, I think this will feel forced as all hell. Don't see EA pulling it off.
 
What about people like me who like the game, but don't want to go online and get wrecked because we suck... is there a kid table I can sit at and play?
 
Gemüsepizza;188735465 said:
I wonder what that will mean for Battlefield 5... I really hope they don't screw this up. After Battlefield Hardline and Star Wars Battlefront they have to deliver.
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But they delivered with both. And dont expect BF5 super duper awesome or super competitive... especially when the setting is another military shooter...with China vs US or whatever..
 
JumPeRJumPzZ said:
But they delivered with both. And dont expect BF5 super duper awesome or super competitive... especially when the setting is another military shooter...with China vs US or whatever..
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I was talking more about hardcore gamers, at which this competitive thing is aimed at. They don't care much about games like Battlefront.
 
I would love to see a battlefield game that had proper competitive game modes, matchmaking and rankings (basically csgo style). Me and my friends would play a ton of that stuff
 
I can see it now: "Here's our competitive game. It's like all the others, but you give EA money for it instead."

I shouldn't snark on EA too hard with this, I guess (they do have stuff like FIFA after all, which is a competitive game), but I always feel that trying to force something like this will probably get some community pushback.

And are people going to use Origin for these games?
 
Syfadious said:
No way these take off though. Why would people watch videogame versions of real life sports?
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People are weird? I suppose they could push a Madden League during the NFL off season in hopes of catching those who want to watch football in some capacity. I don't know, I'm just trying to figure out what they plan on doing
 
Bsigg12 said:
I suppose you could say FIFA and Madden fit that bill. EA seems to consider them apart of this.
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I have a hard time picturing someone watching Madden or FIFA over the real sports they're based on.

But who knows, I'm an old man out of touch with today's youth.
 
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