EA Hires Former Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Producer to Run Two Studios

[jos]

Electronic Arts called on a former studio head at Ubisoft with ties to big franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell to lead two of its own development teams. 

 

Jade Raymond will run

 

a new EA studio in Canada. At the new studio, called Motive, Raymond will focus on fresh games and characters, an important move considering the marketplace is inundated with sequels. EA produces many of them, including the annual “Madden NFL” franchise and the shooter game “Battlefield.” Motive will be based in Raymond’s home town of Montreal, sharing office space and collaborating with EA’s BioWare team, which is well known for the its “Mass Effect” franchise.

 

Raymond will also lead the company’s Visceral Games studio in Redwood Shores, Calif., which is developing a “Star Wars” game separate from the highly anticipated “Star Wars Battlefront” due in November.

 

 

Hope this wont ruin Star Wars games.. considering the recent track history of the games she worked on before

 

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/13/ea-hires-former-assassins-creed-producer-to-run-two-studios/?mod=ST1

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DAMN WOMEN! Just kidding, I love my women.

[Rekx]

I wonder how she got the job and how the job interview went

 

EA: Why should we hire you? You totally fucked up Watch Dogs and AC Unity on pc/consoles.

 

Jade Raymond: I really like day-one dlc, pre-order bonuses and microtransactions.

 

EA: Great! You're hired. 

[Lazmarr]

I wonder how she got the job and how the job interview went.....

And here I thought you were going to imply something completely different.. on the opposite end of the spectrum

[Rekx]

And here I thought you were going to imply something completely different.. on the opposite end of the spectrum

I considered doing something about her ass or boobs. Sadly I'm too mature for those kinds of jokes ;-)

[Spoonfull]

I wonder how she got the job and how the job interview went

 

EA: Why should we hire you? You totally fucked up Watch Dogs and AC Unity on pc/consoles.

 

Jade Raymond: I really like day-one dlc, pre-order bonuses and microtransactions.

 

EA: Great! You're hired. 

 

Not much more damage EA can bring upon itself and Stars Wars. They already turned Battlefront into a reskinned Battlefield 4.

 

Thanks EA, you ruined my child hood

[RH00D]

I'm sure she will do just fine. Assassins Creed was very good when she was the executive producer for it.

 

Hopefully this thread doesn't turn into a showcase of why people call gaming communities vile and immature.

[Bsmith]

will see how it ends before jumping to conclusions i might regret

 

 

DAMN WOMEN! Just kidding, I love my women.

 

-place inappropiate joke here-

[Kurosaki Isshin]

was she involved in creative direction for AC 1&2?

if not, idc

 

 

 

offtopic:

Hopefully this thread doesn't turn into a showcase of why people call gaming communities vile and immature.

maybe you dont talk about. maybe it goes away.

[dragosudeki]

Probably were the developers who weren't happy when the publishers decided to make them release a game in a poorly done condition. EA has been doing pretty good as a publisher, so hopefully they can properly use the talent.

[Master Disaster]

[ACatWithThumbs]

I have the feeling the Star Wars game from Visceral is going to be awesome.
First they hired one of the leads on Uncharted and now someone from Ubisoft.
And all the rumors are hinting on similar to the cancelled Star Wars 1313 which would fit to Visceral and all the people the new people they hired.

[FakezZ]

I wonder how she got the job and how the job interview went

 

EA: Why should we hire you? You totally fucked up Watch Dogs and AC Unity on pc/consoles.

 

Jade Raymond: I really like day-one dlc, pre-order bonuses and microtransactions.

 

EA: Great! You're hired. 

Came for sexist joke. Was disappointed (Hahaha came, get it? - Please don't kill me <3)

[patrickjp93]

I considered doing something about her ass or boobs. Sadly I'm too mature for those kinds of jokes ;-)

Her tongue needs work

 

Either way, she was an executive producer being badgered by the sales teams to get it done and fast. It's not entirely her fault if the sales teams got her boss involved and against her. Game studios are not equipped with the level of programmers needed to push out truly optimized, awe-inspiring games in 2-3 years. As much as I get flack for saying this, the games industry is full of old guard lead developers who seem unable to learn about the various new programming styles and best practices published both by academia and the HPC community, including the Penguin Programmers (Linux Community). Beyond that, the documentation is terrible in these studios. If you saw the original open-source release of Unreal, it was truly unreal how bad it was, but once the community started collaborating and documenting, a lot of the issues were very quickly resolved and development took off. No one wants to comment code in these studios, ensuring only the original developers know how it works so they can't be replaced (easily). Few people want to move to new standards like OpenMP to very quickly get an extensible, multi-threaded design down to build off of and easily debug. The overhead introduced by it is minimal and only paid attention to in the HPC community, and they still use it to build new algorithms for proof of concept before going back and doing the threading by hand, sometimes even delving into raw assembly.

 

Game studios just are not equipped to deal with ever greater demand, slowed GPU improvements, SISD reaching its theoretical performance limits, single-threaded scaling reaching its limits, and CPU clock speeds just not increasing like they used to. They need a clean sweep and new crop of programmers from computer science backgrounds interested in games. A couple of my fellow seniors are going to work for Valve when they finish this year, and one of them is going into engine development with plans to overhaul the current work based on what we learned in our HPC class.

[XTankSlayerX]

Man, people need to lighten the hell up.

 

And by the logic of some people all of the AC games since AC3 are reskinned. CSGO is a reskin of source...

 

This can only be good. You never know if Ubisoft was at  fault for the bad PC Ports.

 

Also... This is EA Guys... The build Battlefield, on PC, for PC. At least.

 

 

Excited to see what comes out of this.

[jos]

I'm sure she will do just fine. Assassins Creed was very good when she was the executive producer for it.

 

Hopefully this thread doesn't turn into a showcase of why people call gaming communities vile and immature.

If she was working when watch dogs was introduced, we can imagine all AC released near and after its release

[Misanthrope]

What was the resume a sick fucking joke on just how much can a person suck because of the projects involved? 

[Paranoid Kami]

I wonder how she got the job and how the job interview went

 

EA: Why should we hire you? You totally fucked up Watch Dogs and AC Unity on pc/consoles.

 

Jade Raymond: I really like day-one dlc, pre-order bonuses and microtransactions.

 

EA: Great! You're hired. 

 

was she involved in creative direction for AC 1&2?

if not, idc

 

I know it's the OP's fault for not putting it in, but does no one do basic research anymore? She worked on Assassins Creed 1&2 and not on Unity.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Raymond

[zacRupnow]

Not much more damage EA can bring upon itself and Stars Wars. They already turned Battlefront into a reskinned Battlefield 4.

 

Thanks EA, you ruined my child hood

To be fair I have no expectation that Battlefront will be any good but I won't know it to be that until I've played it.

[Wind]

EA please, make a Great game her. You got the power, she got the plan