They need to do more than talk, this would be a step in the right direction for me:
1. lower prices on Origin, there's rarely a sale worth bothering with and new releases are always cheaper in almost every other retailer or online shop.
2. Give me Ultima Online II and don't milk it for cash or make an **** of it.
3. Stop buying good companies with a solid track record and destroying their legacy.
4. Look at selling more units cheaper, I'm not saying it'll be more profitable (which is why it won't happen) but I personally haven't bought BF3 or BF4 as they were both far too expensive.
This.. I've read about "wow killers" so often in gaming media, yet the true one came long before it.. Ultima Online
Only reason it went belly up was ea got greedy, and alienated the playerbase that made it the stuff of legends.. before it became carebareland and the search for fishing poles
The reason the likes of Everquest and later Dark age of camelot were so popular was because they knew they'd be recieving 100,000's of disgruntled former-UO players in a time when the mmorpg market was still in a period of growth
The best way I could compare what they did, would be blizzard putting all the stuff which has driven folks away from WoW as the games aged, during the vanilla phase alone
Same story with your bullfrogs and westwoods, the vast majority of whatever ea touch turns into horse crap, and ends up with ip rights locked up in a vault gathering dust
And I don't care how good the game surely if we wanted to fork out close to 100 quid for a title (with extra content) which will reach the end of its "support" lifecycle more or less after the last "DLC" actually gets released (by which time they'll be taking pre-orders on the sequel) we'd all be playing consoles
ugh.. and anyone that has an OH thats into Sim games... my goodness, don't even get me started, they completely turned that thing into a cash cow lol
I'll stick with indie games... if I really feel I need a "triple a" title, I'll simply grab it during fire sales