EA CEO Andrew Wilson har tidligere udtalt i et interview, at han mener ikke det er fortjent, at virksomheden omtales som værende en eller anden form for superskurk i branchen. Den udtalelse blev mødt med et utal af eksempler på ret systematisk adfærd i forhold til forsvaret af Loot Boxes i FIFA-serien, og også den ret kategoriske lukning af opkøbte studier, fra Westwood til Mythic, fra Visceral til Pandemic.
Og netop derfor er det lidt sjovt, at CFO Blake Jorgensen mener at EA bør få mere ros for den måde de håndterer de studier de køber på. Som VGC skriver sagde Jorgensen følgende under deres seneste kvartalsmøde:
"That's probably where we might have had some questions. And actually, we've well exceeded that. And it's to the testament of an exceptional game development team that was able to produce the right assets, to produce the right marketing materials to help us drive this business and the teams working together.
"And you know what? I think we don't get enough credit for this, but EA is a bunch of people who really can work well together. And we do a great job of working with other parts of our company. And when we bring in acquisitions, we work well with them.
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