{"id":266,"date":"2008-10-19T01:10:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/19\/riccitiello-fail-ea-fuxxored\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T01:10:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T00:10:27","slug":"riccitiello-fail-ea-fuxxored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/19\/riccitiello-fail-ea-fuxxored\/","title":{"rendered":"Riccitiello FAIL; EA fuxxored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=20655\">http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=20655<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I remember seeing a CEO lie quite so brazenly, and so naively try to spin everything his way in the bizarre belief that no-one has access to the internet, and hence cannot effortlessly discover the rather impressively different truth.<\/p>\n<p>Since JR took over, talking a great talk about seizing the bull by the horns and starting a reform, I&#8217;d hoped that maybe this was going to be like when Lou Gerstner turned around IBM, taking a huge pain pill of the largest annual loss in history (more than the GDP of most countries in the world!) to get it kick-started, but coming through in the end having fixed the company.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the rate of loss of key people from EA seemed anecdotally to have INcreased after he took over rather than decreased was a really really bad sign, but I see this as the final confirmation. JR has no inention of fixing the company. He probably just intends to talk up the share price and cash out with a big fat pile of money; it&#8217;s a lot less effort, you know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=20655 It&#8217;s been a while since I remember seeing a CEO lie quite so brazenly, and so naively try to spin everything his way in the bizarre belief that no-one has access to the internet, and hence cannot effortlessly discover the rather impressively different truth. Since JR took over, talking a great talk about seizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}