Peter Moore describes EA's future line up as "an embarrassment of riches"

Speaking at the Credit Suisse Technology, Media and Telecom Broker Conference, Moore said, "Well it's a little bit of an embarrassment of riches, particularly in FY17 which commences for us on April 1st, [2016] in which we've got some of our core franchises: a new Battlefield coming up, a new Mass Effect title coming up. We actually kick off the year with Mirror's Edge which we have pushed out of FY16 and into FY17 and we also have Mass Effect from our BioWare studio, Mass Effect: Andromeda.

[DarkOcelet]

So i had to google the meaning of this 'embarrassment of riches' 'PR' crap.

It meant they have too many games coming up. And no, they dont. Square Enix have a huge lineup in 2016 and that is what i call embarrassment of riches.

But this, they have a good amount but not a great one. And Of course there is the stupid stuff like 50$ Season Pass that will make me deter from buying most of their upcoming games.

[nX]

Even more ridiculous is, they seem to be only working on established franchises, no new IP was mentioned at all. After the horrible Need For Speed and the disappointing Battlefront I feel like EA is going downhill again.

[DarkOcelet]

Battlefront and NFS were major disappointments, i hope Bioware and Visceral don't screw their games because are the only two titles that i am interested in right now.

I hope EA dont screw them and put 50$ Season Passes or Microtransactions accompanied with low content.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

What makes it bad is the fact they have 2 games I want from them Mass Effect and Mirrors Edge. If they mess up those two important franchises then there's no goin back.

[-Foxtrot]

Games which are so embarrassing because they've either ruined, dumbed down, removed content, added MT and over priced season passes which will make them super, duper rich

[DarkOcelet]

And that is the sad thing. Their games sells very well even after their MT, overpriced Season Passes, dumbed down, low content etc etc etc.

EA are a plague to the gaming industry.

[freshslicepizza]

dragon age was good, so was madden and nhl this year. but overall you are right and i hope they don't ruin mass effect.

[Automatic79]

Well from his point of view and from my own as a gamers point of view they might be right. Here are the following games that will arrive from EA next year:

Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2
Mirrors Edge 2
Madden Football
FIFA
NBA live
Need for Speed
Battlefield 5
Mass Effect Andromeda
A New Starwars from Visceral
New Undisclosed IP
Titanfall 2

Sounds like they have there hands full. Next year will be big for EA.

Personally looking forward to Plants vs Zombies 2, New Starwars and Titanfall 2. Realistically its safe to say certain games will get pushed back.

[Fkhalf16]

Mass Effect Andromeda and Visceral SW game are the only ones Im interested in

[nitus10]

Well EA is publishing the above games and only one word comes to mind "micro-transactions" . I could be wrong but I doubt it.

Another annoyance (at least for me) is on-line only (I usually avoid them), or if the game has a single player mode it is short and rather disappointing although that is subjective.

[user9950279]

"...a new Battlefield coming up..."

That's all I need to hear, mr. Moore. We are now the best of friends and I hope I get invited to your birthday party. BF5 is already the best game ever made. Titanfall 2 is like the ridiculously plump cherry on top.

Oh, and I forgot to add..... SUCK IT HATERS

[mrmonk]

Bf5 will be the only 1 I buy out of them games to I'm still enjoying bf4.

[frostypants]

Hopefully BF5 lives up to BFBC2, unlike BF3 or BF4.

[WellyUK]

Bf3 is actually very good and most people realize this now. Bf4 however isn't. Couldn't care less about another BC game as they weren't that good anyway. BF2142 or a WW2 BF is what we need.

[user9950279]

Battlefield 3 had better maps overall, but I do really like BF4 as well. Before that I played Bad Company which was great, but I feel its completely ridiculously overrated by the same people who always desperately cling to narrative-driven games. These are not real Battlefield fans.

What I REALLY want is a true blue remaster of BF1942 for new gen consoles. Not a remake... a remaster =D. I wanna get 128players going in El Amien.

[TWB]

@martinstrings

Meh, I thought BF4s maps were a little better. Then again, I mostly played Obliteration (which was awesome) and most of the stock maps felt like they were made for Obliteration.

Rush was better in BF3 maps, conquest maps... havent been all that great all around in the recent BF titles. There were a couple good ones in BF4 though.

[uth11]

Does that mean that it's an embarassing lineup that's so full of micro-transactions that it will make them rich?

[DarkOcelet]

Yes, that is exactly the best meaning of what he said.

+bub

[MegaRay]

Yup. They make 2x money from MT and DLC than games itself afterall.

[G20WLY]

This guy makes my skin crawl with his arrogant ways *shudders*

[SegaGamer]

He's got a punchable face, a very businessman like face. He probably has absolutely no interest in games themselves, he look's like someone who only cares about the money.

[MilkMan]

an embarrassment, yes it is.

[TimelessDbz]

Need for speed and Battle front is fun. Can't wait for plants vs zombies garden warfare 2.

[Paytaa]

EA better not f*ck up Titanfall 2 and Mass Effect Andromeda. The only two EA games I'm looking forward to and if they pull a Battlefront with either of those I'll be so pissed.

[Double_O_Revan]

I already see it coming with Mass Effect, and it kills me because I want so badly for it to be as amazing as the original trilogy.

[Artemidorus]

I hope that wallet is extremely heavy because you sir are paying.

[NotanotherReboot]

I tend to avoid EA's games these days. The only one I'll end up picking up is Mass Effect, but even then it won't be day 1.

[viperman240]

EA needs to get rid of Pete Moore so they can improve as a company. Well, that would be the first step in many more things they would have to do.

[Poodlejamas]

It is not like nobody is going to buy their games. EA know it so they continue to screw with gamers.

[superterabyte]

How can you not have heard of the phrase 'an embarrassment of riches'? It's pretty common.

[Artemidorus]

All with less content and all with a season pass. Fcuk you EA.

[Gamist2dot0]

Read the title so fast I thought I was going to read an article about "Peter Moore describes EA's future line up as an embarrassment." I got gypped..

[SlightlyRetarted]

I was already fed up with Battlefield, when Battlefield 4 came out. Still bought it and played it about 40 hours. Felt really meh, but now after skipping Hardline completely i'm actually waiting for Battlefield 5. Sometimes it's good to take a 3 year break from the series you really like.

[AgentSmithPS4]

I sometimes enjoyed BF4 but I'm glad I didn't buy 'premium'.

I didn't like the nerfed helicopters, overpowered nuisance jets (this isn't real life it's a game that should be balanced. Basically everything could kill a heli while jets go 50-0), worthless team balancing/rebalancing after matches (no incentive for good people to switch etc), the bugs/lag especially at first, unfair extra weapons for premium players, no server setting to force objective playing instead of screwing around, etc.

It's too bad there isn't real competition out there or organized caring gamers to force them to change.

[AgentSmithPS4]

I'd get as many people as we can to complain to Sony about EA, they have the power to change their behavior, at least on the PS4 version. Their 'premium' etc additions should not get more or better weapons in MP games when they can use them on non premium people. At the very least everyone should get those weapons, just not the new maps.

Do you think things like the 50$ 'season pass' should be forcefully delayed by Sony for X# of months to give consumers a better idea of how little they're getting from a new full priced game?

[ThunderPulse]

I like the games EA makes but damn they need to lay off the Season Passes that cost almost the same amount as the game.

[PS4XBOXONEPC]

never liked Peter Moore at all,he's an idiot..GLAD he's not at Microsoft anymore.