A Look at EA's Chief Creative Officer

I think this moron is the cause Electronic Arts got minus 200 million dollars at the end of the fiscal year, that and the lack of good games/creativity/common sense. EA got Binged!!!

I want his job... "sucks, sucks, good, sucks, sweet, get that shit outta my face, ship it now!, wtf is this your fired!" Yeah that'd be shaweet.

Giving one person that much power/influence is not a good thing. I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck that when a game is successful Bing takes credit. But when a game is a flop he his immune.

Typical management.

Missing Ed Fries and Jordan Weisman about now. Love or hate MS they were the best CO's that the business ever had.

Is this premptive positive PR spins before he gets snagged for insider trading?

EA has a chief creative officer? What does he do for creativity, look at all the games they made already and come up with sequels?

Hahaha.. Creative and EA don't belong in the same sentence..

Is this the guy that goes around checking out each project saying "Okay, put some catchup AI in this game, rehash old ideas in this game, and this game needs more shitty music in its EA-Trax"?

I bet 90% of this guy's time on the job is spent golfing.

Interesting article, and the guy sounds pretty cool to boot. Unfortunately it seems that any news post mentioning EA is an automatic "make shitty and irrelevant flames as fast as possible" signal though. I'm a sad panda, you guys disappoint me. :(

Heh.When I go to my art class tomorrow, I'm going to look over everyone's work and give them my 2 cents worth, then piss off and bludge somewhere... I will call it "Doing the Binge".

"The complaints about EA are that we are No. 1 and we are doing the things that a No. 1 company does."

McDonald's is first in fast food as is Walmart in retail; being No. 1 doesn't mean quality products. And it's no excuse for unethical business practices.

"Gordon's assessment can make or break a game"

mmmm, I wonder if any other companies follow this idea. Gordon for teh win!

A few "memorable" parts of the article.

``My assignment is to make our product line more innovative,'' he said in his gravelly voice. ``I love inventing new jumping-off points. I love being surprised by world-class imagineers and free associations that can blow my mind.''
-In other words, no one has a fucking clue what I do and neither do I. What I do know is that a sequel ALWAYS sells well. (books flight on company dollar to exotic location)

He is the jester in the court of the king, which in this case is EA Chief Executive Larry Probst, the straight man who runs the company's business. Yet because Gordon has been with the company since its founding 23 years ago, he commands respect from the ranks.
-In other words, I've been here since the beginning. I'm Probst's bitch-boy and because of that there is no WAY they can fire me. Oh yeah! Who wants to get BINGED? (books flight on company dollar to annoy developers)

``Bing once said, `I came into this meeting hoping this was the Queen Mary sailing into the South Harbor of my mind, but it's not,' '' Gibeau recalled. ``It was a total non sequitur, but it got across the point that he wasn't happy.''
-This isn't a sequel WTF, OMG! (books flight to tell Probst to cancel yet another project that isn't a sequel)

``He plays games so much that he has an intuition for what kind of games do well,'' Riccitiello said. ``And he challenges game designers to think bigger. It's a perfect job for him.''
-I'm sooooo glad I thought of The Sims Online. tEh $1mS 0NL1NE r0X0R3Z mY WoRld! (buys alienware laptop AND books flight on company dollar to play SOL while flying to exotic location)

What a fucking joke. I can't believe some of the money spent on games goes to pay for some shit like this. I bet one year of his salary could fund a small developer for a long time. I also like the comment ``He sees things through the eyes of a consumer''. Why don't they put REAL consumers (gamers) in front of their games instead of this tool?

EA sucks. This we know...and no amount of articles festooned with asskissing bullshit will ever change that fact.

From the creative mind of Bing Gordon comes Madden, 007, Harry Potter, LOTR, and the Sims games(Will Wright knows that Bing Gordon is the creative genius behind this #1 smash hit). With Bing's creative powers EA created Need For Speed, BurnOut, and the Battlefield series. Bing single-handedly came up with the Madden and James Bond character. EA is so proud of Bing's LOTR story. Expect Bing Gordon to be #1 Game Developer from Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2006!

"Binged": when Gordon Bing cuts out developer's creative content and adds his own. Bing came up with the smart idea to add advertisement like that Cingular symbol for NFSU. He always said, "Make more ads, expansions, sequels, licenses, and we need to buy other developers!"

oh and sometimes he drops by to fuck everyone's ass... also called "Binged"

can we blame him for the Need For Speed Underground series?

John Romero would make this job his bitch.

He'd probably be better than 'Bing' anyway. Sure its not bling?

This news article so hilarious. When a Chief *Creative* Officer's job is simply to "roam among the studio teams to offer his feedback on works in progress", it doesn't take too much to figure out why EA doesn't come up with anything new or innovative...

Hah hah, this is going to be a funny thread. Fifty bucks to the poster who comes up with the best snappy rejoinder.

Those Sims sequels don't just make themselves up!

What a joke...EA is the least creative game company out there

EA and creativity in the same sentence is the biggest oxymoron