These two chuckleheads sound less like CEOs and more like pro wrestlers. 
 

Call Of Duty should 'rot from the core' trolls EA boss

The war of words between Battlefield 3 and Call Of Duty has turned nasty, with EA's CEO attacking subscription service Call Of Duty Elite and comparing Modern Warfare to a Disney film.

Read the article he's based it on instead. A guy that picks an article apart to find the iconic quotes without including the meaning behind them is pretty amusing. Not to mention that he uses the word 'trolling' to describe the events.

In context, the rot from the core quote seems more about the term "core" as in "hardcore gamers", and Riccitiello wishing for said hardcore gamers to gravitate towards the better game (which is, in his opinion obviously, BF3).

'A lot of people bought Modern Warfare more for the coffee table and didn’t play it for 2 months. There’s sort of that mass audience... they’re going to win there. The question is, 'So, if the gamer buys our game and the mass audience buys their game, where do the two meet?' And all I want to do, if you will, is to have them rot from the core,' he continued. 

EA is just butthurt that COD is doing exactly what they used to do and continue to want to do, that is appeal to the lowest common denominator.

The irony of all this is that Battlefield as a franchise has been slowly "COD-ified" as the years have passed by. So for him to take the moral high ground and proclaim that his games are more "authentic" and "real", when they're clearly trying to ape COD is laughable. Battlefield 3 may well turn out to be a batter game, which isn't saying much, but EA are clearly appealing to the same audience, demographic and are trying to create a similar experience.

And calling COD a "disneyland" game when your own game looks as hollywood-ised is funny. 

"My game is better than yours, boo hoo"

This 'Battlefield Versus Call of Duty' thing is fucking annoying. Play the game that you like and shut the hell up.

This is pretty sad. You will have to do more than make a game that is essentially call of duty with nice graphics to dethrone the king. Trying to make activision look bad when he sides with EA. EA is just as bad if not worse than activision IMO. Is being in second place really that bad when you are still going to sell millions?

@JoeyRavn said:

"My game is better than yours, boo hoo"

"NO MY GAME IS BETTER THAN YOURS!"