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August 15, 2007

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EA is not in the game

Posted Aug. 15, ’07, 11:15 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Games

Bing GordonCast your minds back, if you will, to June 11th. Steve Jobs gave a small chunk of his keynote presentation at this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference to Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon of Electronic Arts. Gordon said that EA was committed to the Mac and that, starting in July, many of EA’s biggest titles would be making their way to the Mac: Commander & Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Then, in August, we’d see simultaneous releases on PC and Mac of Madden NFL 2008 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008.

Well, both July and the August ship date for Madden NFL 2008 have come and gone with no sign of Mac versions. Nothing. Nada. As if that wasn’t bad enough, there’s been nary a word out of EA about when to expect them. Our colleague Peter Cohen at Macworld tried to dig up some info back in July, with little success, and Tuncer Deniz of Inside Mac Games has basically been stonewalled by EA.

EA’s behavior has almost become ridiculous to the point of hilarity. This is how they show their “committment” to the Mac platform? What’s worse, I bet you all the chocolate in Hershey, Pennsylvania that EA is on the short list for producing games for the iPhone, despite the fact that there are dedicated Mac developers out there who are trying to develop for the platform by any means necessary. Rewarding EA for this pathetic behavior would frankly be a slap in the face to Mac developers. Think twice, Apple.

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3 Comments

stefan said:

check it out!
harry potter has finally been announced for shipping next week.
everything else is still AWOL, but thats better than nothing eh?

August 15, 2007 12:56 PM
George said:

Silly rabbit, "hard-core" games are for PC's. And consoles. Not Macs.

Macs are for fun stuff like creating YouTube videos and organizing your vacation photos. Jobs has made it pretty clear he doesn't care about games. Games aren't fun. The 8.5 million World of Warcraft subscribers aren't having fun, just pathetic addicts like meth users.

I'm sure an iPhone version of Sudoku, Bejeweled, and maybe even Sims Bowling will be available soon from the iTunes Store (priced slightly higher at $6.99 because of enhanced graphics and sounds and require an active internet connection so as not to piss off iPhone "developers" who have been busy building "apps" as web pages). Those are the "fun" games Mac users need apparently.

Note: if it wasn't apparent, most of this was written with sarcasm.

As a gamer (and someone who justs like free choice), I long for the day when Steve Jobs steps down and gamers might finally be embraced by Apple instead of treated like leppers.

August 16, 2007 5:12 AM
Neil Anderson said:

Maybe EA's games incorporate features from Leopard?

August 16, 2007 6:10 AM

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