EA vs. Mitch Lasky -- Round 1 FIGHT!

By Owen Johnson in Gaming News
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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​In what seems to be degenerating into schoolyard name calling, Electronic Arts has publicly responded to former executive Mitch Lasky's earlier criticism. Lasky had slammed EA and it's current management in his blog immediately after the company announced that it would be off-target for it's fiscal year, and that the packaged goods business would be either flat or down in 2011.  Armed with some very good points, Lasky tore into EA saying that it is "in the wrong business, with the wrong cost structure, and the wrong team, but somehow they think that it's going to be a smooth two-year transition from packaged goods to digital. Think again."

Hit the jump to read EA's response, in which they essentially call Lasky a little bitch.

Jeff Brown, head of Corporate Communications, responded to Lasky yesterday with:

"Mitch needs to try de-caf. It's never easy being turned down for a job, but most people don't spend three years obsessing about it. Since Mitch left EA, Apple invented the iPhone, Facebook evolved to include a gaming platform and EAMobile became the world leader."

To clarify, Brown is saying that Lasky had wanted the job as CEO that had instead gone to John Riccitiello, and is now a bitter buffalo.  Will Lasky be the bigger man or are the gloves going to come off in the second round?  Stay tuned to find out!   
Tags: EA, EAMobile, Mitch Lasky, Verbal Warfare
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