EA and Activision CEO's among the most overpaid in America
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Don't you fucking peasants understand that CEO's are übermenchen capable of performing feats of work that plebians cannot even comprehend with their meager little minds. Which is why they deserve 300 times the salary that you do. /s
Welcome to capitalism. Please enjoy earning an amount of money in your life that other people will earn in a day.
Imagine that if one would take 30 million USD from Wilson's or Kotick's yearly salary EA or Activision could fund an entire AAA game and still leave several million USD left in their yearly salary.
All that money and yet still poor business decisions.
I wish that was still the case. Sadly, because of modern day AAA bloat, the average budget for one of those games is now between 50 and 60 million.
Guys don't you get it, games are too expensive to make they need more microtra- live services
Yeah, and that's still about half the budget for some of these games. If games are so "expensive" to make, then why the hell should these CEOs be paid this much if they're not going to use it towards something worth a damn?
Oh I don't disagree. Frankly though, I'd much prefer the money go to the employees.
"but they worked hard for their money guys"
AAA companies are walking that fine line where upper managements self serving greed managest just barely to eclipse their incompetence.
Seems to me that AAA games development suffers from upper managements purely business-centric view of the art.
Much of the current AAA games development isn't so much about unraveling the ludosynergism of games through auteuristic expression and experimentation, but the companies R&D department under upper managements pressure trying to create an ubiquous golden goose format adapt a very reductionistic method.
And thus many a great goose has its head chopped of when it appears it may only lay big or medium size eggs instead of golden eggs.
If I recall correct that was the fate of Visceral Games and Star Wars 1313 (does it shit out as much money as FIFA/NHL games).
And we can see this in how ten years ago there were discerning studies about how many people aren't playing their games to completion, yet here we are at a point where AAA games are longer than ever before.
Brings us to my favorite example:
Dead Space 3. Where the response to an "underperformed" successfull previous title was to produce an artistically, mechanically and ethically compromised title that lasted LONGER THAN THE PREVIOUS TITLES COMBINED.
To paraphrase what must have been the train of tought of the executive branch:
"The horror fans like the screamy ooglie booglies, the shooty game fans like guns that pewpew very fast and crouching behind boxes like in that game about the fat dudes shooting each other with chainsaws and market research from our sports titles show that the monetisation of accelerating in-game process producess lots of money and more game equals more yay. This will surely recoup the losses from Dead Space 2 breaking even."
The ambitions getting cut my market research and constant crunch of the AAA industry most definitely bleed a shit ton of money, coupled with the egregious costs of traditional marketting it is no wonder that the budgets are bloated.
Games get shittier, and CEOs get richer. It makes no sense.
I know your post's ironic, but the fact that he makes 450 times as much money as a nurse is just plain disgusting.
This phenomenon is only exclusive to some publishers. Mostly third party ones. Nintendo and Sony are both are still cranking out amazing exclusives. And most of them are single-player with no micro-transactions. Microsoft looks like it's ready to finally follow their lead next gen, with all the studios they've been scooping up.
It's almost like companies like EA and Activision have been shit for a very, very long time - and they never learn from their mistakes, because EA Sports and Call of Duty singlehandedly keep them afloat.
In the end, I guess playing videogames did teach me a lot, namely about politics and economics
Take that, my nagging 5th-grade teacher!
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