Wired News Investigates EA’s Ineptitude with MMOs

by Alphaville Herald on 20/07/04 at 4:57 pm

Daniel Terdiman, who broke the story of the Alphaville Elections into the infosphere not long ago has recently written a story on the string of failures that EA is racking up with online games. Casualties now include Motor City Online, Earth and Beyond, Ultima X, a scrubbed plan for a Harry Potter Game, and of course the disappointment that is TSO. This is contrasted with the successes being enjoyed by Sony Online Entertainment and especially by NCsoft. There is some nice discussion from our friend Ted Castronova. My favorite quote from the Ted: “Maybe the EA story is a wake-up call that this is so much more about governance than it is about game design.”