EA may be a ****** company (Although they seem to be changing a little now), but they do publish some fantastic games.

For all those who are saying that they don't buy EA games, your gaming is really limited. EA doesn't publish bad games, EA is horrible at customer service. Almost all of EA's titles win awards or are long running franchise titles, like most of their sports games. With rare exception, EA tends to buy quality studios as well. Unlike other companies, EA isn't afraid to spend money on game development. Companies like Dice and Bioware were two small to invest heavily on follow up games and large teams. They had to look some place else for investment. With rare exception, companies like Dice and EA can compete with larger companies like EA, but it's not often. Companies like EA and Activision have saturated the game market with so many games that it's almost impossible for independents or startups to get into the game. Unless they have a great idea to start with, in which case they either end up selling to EA or Activision or EA/Activision just creates their own version of the game, pour tons of money into it and crushes the little guy.

At the end of the day EA/Activision is the Wal-Mart of the gaming world. No one likes what Wal-Mart is doing to mom and pop business', but everyone still shops there.

Aside from the whole judging without even knowing the guy thing I am just going to leave this here: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,11359/

To name a few:
C&C Renegade
BF2
BF2142
Mirrors Edge

Looks awesome to me! :D

Would you like clarification on exactly what his "experience" is with a number of those AAA games?
Well, I'll put it like this.......


You know how, sometimes, when a high-profile game is released and it's riddled with bugs and server crashes?
Well, you know how sometimes, the devs for those games end up catching a lot of hell over those quality issues and even sometimes end up closed (the dev studio) within a year of the game releasing?
Well, you know how those devs sometimes say that the publishers pressured them, rushed them, underfunded them, and/or screwed them over on the quality assurance front? (publishers often take control of QA away from dev studios)

Well, there's always this one guy that works for the publisher, and he's pretty much the publisher's appointed "overseer" for that development branch or for that specific development project/game.
In other words, he's "the man" that breaths down the necks of the developers.

^That is who Sean Decker was at EA. He's THAT guy.
Up until they promoted him to head the free-to-play division of EA, globally......
Apparently, that promotion didn't turn out well for whatever reason (underpayed? underperformed? under the microscope and having to stand on his own laurels? who knows....)

You're dislike of those games don't make them bad games. I for one liked:

DA2
SWTOR
ME3
...
Every body has their own opinion of games and publishers. I don't care for Microsoft Studios, but they did publish one of the most liked games of all times, Wing Commander.