Tim Gettys

Yo, hey, you made a prom night baby joke at the beginning of the show.

Sure. Fair enough. Fair enough.

Sure. Fair enough. Fair enough.

um who's the oh i can't remember the ea ceo right now i can picture his face his name andrew otherwise yeah oh it is uh andrew wilson no no andrew it's always when that blue collared shirt chat help me out i'm gonna write in andrew wilson i don't know it was andrew wilson oh i nailed that shit nailed it crushed it yeah there he is yeah that guy thank you wait he's the ceo imagine andrew wilson having to sit me down like i can't make prom night baby jokes

um who's the oh i can't remember the ea ceo right now i can picture his face his name andrew otherwise yeah oh it is uh andrew wilson no no andrew it's always when that blue collared shirt chat help me out i'm gonna write in andrew wilson i don't know it was andrew wilson oh i nailed that shit nailed it crushed it yeah there he is yeah that guy thank you wait he's the ceo imagine andrew wilson having to sit me down like i can't make prom night baby jokes

I've been looking through.

I've been looking through.

Well, that's a great question. I think when you look at a number of 13,700 employees, that's too many employees. I think that's too many. And I think as we have had a video game boom

Well, that's a great question. I think when you look at a number of 13,700 employees, that's too many employees. I think that's too many. And I think as we have had a video game boom

for so long and now we are in that wane where we are you know as Matt Piscitella pointed out we are a mature market now and tariffs and this and an unpredictable stock market you know all these different things that are going on outside of gaming but are affecting gaming and deciding how much money there is to spend how much energy people are going into how many people are playing the old games versus they're not buying new games I think as every publisher and developer but every publisher for this conversation grapples with that

for so long and now we are in that wane where we are you know as Matt Piscitella pointed out we are a mature market now and tariffs and this and an unpredictable stock market you know all these different things that are going on outside of gaming but are affecting gaming and deciding how much money there is to spend how much energy people are going into how many people are playing the old games versus they're not buying new games I think as every publisher and developer but every publisher for this conversation grapples with that

I think when you look at a company that has 13,700 employees, that's a bigger problem to grapple with, and that's why you see stuff like 300 to 400 positions be eliminated like that because it is shit. We got to keep the shareholder value up, and we got to figure this out, and we got to be profitable, and it reminds me so much of the one company. I'm blanking. No, it was a fucking – was it a –

I think when you look at a company that has 13,700 employees, that's a bigger problem to grapple with, and that's why you see stuff like 300 to 400 positions be eliminated like that because it is shit. We got to keep the shareholder value up, and we got to figure this out, and we got to be profitable, and it reminds me so much of the one company. I'm blanking. No, it was a fucking – was it a –

god damn it game company game studio who is the game company that was like we got to double down on the pillars and they we got like three franchises oh you want embracer yes thank you embrace i want to say saudi arabia which of course i mean i was like i'm like that's not them it's embracer yeah of course large wing for who's like we got chris dynamics we got we're gonna we're gonna exploit the ip yeah we're gonna exploit lord of the rings exactly and tomb raider insane thing

god damn it game company game studio who is the game company that was like we got to double down on the pillars and they we got like three franchises oh you want embracer yes thank you embrace i want to say saudi arabia which of course i mean i was like i'm like that's not them it's embracer yeah of course large wing for who's like we got chris dynamics we got we're gonna we're gonna exploit the ip yeah we're gonna exploit lord of the rings exactly and tomb raider insane thing

And so it's like, that's how I think, even though we give them so much shit for saying that, and of course, fucking over the industry by buying and closing so many people and having bad ideas, I think everybody internally is doing that. Where I think it is EA being like, cool, we are a Mass Effect, Star Wars, you know what I mean? They're doing... Obviously, developer by developer.

And so it's like, that's how I think, even though we give them so much shit for saying that, and of course, fucking over the industry by buying and closing so many people and having bad ideas, I think everybody internally is doing that. Where I think it is EA being like, cool, we are a Mass Effect, Star Wars, you know what I mean? They're doing... Obviously, developer by developer.

So we're going to be like, Bioware, you're Mass Effect. Respawn, you're Star Wars.

So we're going to be like, Bioware, you're Mass Effect. Respawn, you're Star Wars.

Make Apex make money again. I think that's what you're going to see from all these different people. And the same thing, I can't speak to... Are we not going to see another Dead Space remake?