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Peter Moore Apologizes For Frostbite Devs Troll Tweets

Peter Moore, the Chief Operating Officer at EA, has taken to Twitter to apologise for the troll tweets published today from an anonymous developer on the Frostbite engine Twitter account.

diepdiep4426d ago

They should fire whoever posted those troll tweets.

lameguy4426d ago

Depends really. 'EA the company' has publicly stated their support for Nintendo and when 'EA the employees' go against that, it makes things... difficult and then Nintendo feels bad.

Hmm, the more interesting one would be if Sony did the same to MS or vice versa somehow :)

Gazondaily4426d ago (Edited 4426d ago )

It wasn't even that bad.

People need to chill I swear. I dread to think what people will say when I publish the next video roundtable for our site (luckily no one gives a s*** at this point). Bunch of sensitive girls.

GROW A PAIR!

Silly gameAr4426d ago

Must have been some serious biz to somebody or they wouldn't have deleted the tweets and Peter Moore wouldn't be apologizing.

OC_MurphysLaw4426d ago

While I agree its not so serious that someone should get fired its probably something that once Senior EA staff got wind it caused a big stir. Not only are they trolling one of their partners ( they do still make Nintendo games mind you ) but they also haven't had a great PR run of late so any negative press associated to them is something very un-wanted.

LOL_WUT4426d ago

He shouldn't have to apologize come on people it's April fools lighten up ;)

VitaOwner4426d ago (Edited 4426d ago )

@Silly gameAr

I think there should be discipline for the poster but not serious enough to lose his job. His attempt at humor was misguided, but Nintendo is also to blame for its frosty relationships with EA and other 3rd parties and a tweet like this from a person not in any real power will have little impact on decisions between the big boys at the top of the companies.

Axonometri4426d ago

Uh, yeah. What the frick is wrong with a joke on April fools day? EA does not even honor their partnership with Nintendo.

Silly gameAr4426d ago (Edited 4426d ago )

@VitaOwner

I'm not saying anyone should lose their job over it or anything like that. Just saying somebody must have taken it a little more personal then most and thought it was in bad taste or the tweets would still be there.

Me personally, don't think anyone should lose their job over a few tweets, even if they were kind of in bad taste, but sadly things like that happen everyday.

AKR4426d ago

When you work for a big company; you better try hard not to make a fool of yourself.

Just because a small group, or even one person decides to "be funny" - that smudges the name of the entire company. Notice, people started jumping on EA's back as a whole; not just the person who tweeted this.

Why do you think parents tell their kids to be on their best behavior when they're out in public? Their actions tend to reflect off of their parents as well.

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Alan_Shore4426d ago

It was kinda funny and harsh at the same time. But nah they shouldn't be fired.

....cant you take a joke?

LOL_WUT4426d ago

They can't take a joke not if it's aimed at Nintendo! ;)

kwandar4426d ago

It's not a joke - it is a mean spirited shot at Wii U owners, and Nintendo.

It isn't like this is the first time for EA either.

I like my Wii U thank you very much. When a publisher goes out of its way to call my purchasing decision stupid, I just really want to go out of my way and not touch their product; not for the PS3, Wii U, PC or PS4. I doubt that I'm the only person at the moment who won't buy EA product.

Peter - I appreciate your attempt to apologise, I very much do, but I think a little too much water has gone under the bridge, and at least in my case it is falling on deaf ears.

Nevers0ft4426d ago

The Frostbyte announcement could have been fairly funny, but then they doubled-down with the rest of the tweets and comments about the console being the most powerful... At that point the posts kinda went from "OK..." to "Sh*tty"

dodgemoose4426d ago (Edited 4426d ago )

because that wouldn't be a complete overeaction

Fireseed4426d ago

Someone made a tweet about how underpowered a toy is... loses job. Not an overreaction at all /s

Dark114426d ago

Yeah they hurt the wii u feelings!!

Baccra174426d ago

Really? What's next, going to fire the guy that says the Earth is round? Truth hurts, suck it up and #dealwithit.

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Starbucks_Fan4426d ago

Apologize? Another April Fools joke?

OrangePowerz4426d ago

And now fix the netcode of BF4 EA.

Majin-vegeta4426d ago

It's fixed on my end other than langcang dam and Hainan.Also in the server type Testserver 2 enjoy ;)

OT:Have people really become butthurt over a set of tweets??

SecretNO_2584426d ago

It was just a harmless April fools joke. I'm a Nintendo fan and I still laughed at it.
He really didn't need to apologize.

Summons754426d ago

Not really, it was a very clear troll move and not a joke. Ea was fully behind the Wiiu until Nintendo wouldn't let them have origin on the system, hell crysis 3 was ready for launch on the Wiiu.

Whomever did this within EA clearly did this out of malice

Trago13374426d ago

I wonder what would happen if those tweets were joking about the PS4 or Xbox One.

I like how Nintendo are still considered "Partners."

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo65d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14965d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused65d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos77d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee77d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0977d ago (Edited 77d ago )

🤣🤣🤣

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US Lawmakers Urge Review Of EA Sale

The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers

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Trilithon111d ago

lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6

lodossrage111d ago (Edited 111d ago )

Wait,

The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.

NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.

thorstein111d ago

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.

TheColbertinator111d ago

Different elections. Different scum. Same results.

rlow1111d ago

i know its a long shot, but i hope this gets shot down.

ZwVw111d ago

EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.