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[spiker]

From the horse's mouth via OS

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Hello everyone!

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for the time, thoughts, love, hate, and sense of community you've brought to me and the MLB The Show dev team! It's because of you that we have been able to go from one of the lowest rated sports games on the market to the only game to achieve a 90+ metacritic rating 3 years running! This is absolutely the best sports gaming community anywhere - we may all have differences but don't forget what brings you all together.

With that, I feel I need to let you know that I have resigned my position with SCEA. It has been a truly exciting and fun filled experience working on the MLB The Show team! I was with SCEA for 15.5 years and have been on MLB for ~9 of those years; It's time to move on. Effective Friday, Dec. 23rd I will be "unemployed" - I'll celebrate a wonderful Christmas with my family (We're hosting 15+ people for breakfast, lunch and diner... yes, we know... we're insane) and then on the 30th I'll be moving with my wife and unborn baby girl (Due March 6th) to Orlando, Florida.

Beginning Jan. 9th I begin work as a Creative Director for EA on the Madden Team. I'm sure many of you will follow along as I get to know that "sub community" while I learn and interact with the Madden fans on the site. This is a huge change in my career, and a huge change for my family. My wife and I are truly looking forward to it! Except maybe the whole mosquito thing going on in Florida... GEEZ!

Thank you again for everything you've done for me and the MLB The Show dev team. Here's to 9 more excellent years!

I hope you all have an excellent Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Year and anything else you may celebrate!

-Kolbe

[kella]

ew, Orlando

[ZackMills]

meh, he can't change the shitty engine.

[pavel_quad]

ew, "unborn baby girl"...

[spiker]

Madden 13 will be the first to see a "major" impact sans Ian Cummings, since Madden 12 was basically finished when he resigned to make Facebook games. Madden 14 will see Kolbe's first big impact on the game, since M13 is about half way done and the dev planning decisions were made without him. He's basically latching on to someone else's ideas for M13 and trying to improve them.

Zack's right though. The game engine is doomed at least until the next generation of systems. That is, if they decide they want to change it. You'd hope they do anyways.

[ZackMills]

How does this work? Does he clean house and replace those below him with his own like a head corch would or will he just work with the already employed EA idiots?

[spiker]

I would imagine he will guide the decision making for the current talent. Remember, Madden nearly cleaned house last year when Cummings left. He was not the only one to leave.

[ZackMills]

His first order of business should be making them play 2k's games.

[Simo77]

ZackMills, on 29 December 2011 - 12:36 PM, said:

His first order of business should be making them play 2k's games.

lol. For the first time probably.

[ZackMills]

Simo77, on 29 December 2011 - 12:51 PM, said:

lol. For the first time probably.

"Der, I thought we were the only ones making footbaw games?!?"