Now EA has had a rocky few years with 2013 being an absolute clusterfuck with disaster after disaster. SimCity started off the year in a bad way with it's busted launch and stiped down features and alwayse online requirement (which is now going to be removed) it was a PR disaster. And it only got worse from there with a string of flops (FUSE, Army of Two, Crysis 3 etc), NBA Live 14 missfire, Command and Conquer's developer being scuttled and the game being rebooted before release, some backlash over Plants vs Zombies 2, and capping off with Battlefield 4's implosion that has spawned 3 separate lawsuits. And now it seems like a lot of people are jumping ship or being pushed.
First Popcap lost Jeff Green a high ranking member of their social media arm. Then Criterion Games co-founders Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry leave EA to found a new studio. Followed by Chillingo founders Chris Byatte and Joe Wee soon after. And now EA VP Jeff Brown has left the company. And lets not forget that Bioware's founders also left late last year. And of course early this year they got a new CEO after John Riccitiello was ousted in favor of Andrew Wilson.
Now with all these high profile people leaving EA, what can we expect to come of EA? Is it a fresh start after cleaning out the old guard, or is this the biggining of the end for EA as the rats abandon the sinking ship?
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