Credits of the FIFA series

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20 February 2023
See if the Gameplay changes in the FIFA series are traceable. But, I sold the PS5 discs for 22 and 23, so I don't have list of them :TTTH:
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FIFA 10 (Console Ver.)

Lead Producer - David Rutter
Gameplay Producer - Aaron McHardy
Creative Director - Gary Paterson
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FIFA 11 (PC Ver.)

Vice President of Soccer - Matt Bilbey
Executive Producer - Kazuya Makita
Group Development Director - Alexander Kachura
Group Technical Director - Padraic O'Neile
Group Art Director - Matthew Jones
Producer - David Rutter
Franchise Development Director - Scott Murray
Technical Director - Jinsong Li
Creative Director - Gary Paterson
Art Director - Mike Day

Production Team - Ian Jarvis
Lead Programmers -
Bob Summerwill
Wilson Venhola
Scott Wardle
Andy Younger

Programming Team -
Daniel Peter Brown
Anatoli Chtcherbakov
Ebor Folkertsma
Glen Kociolek
Phil Jones

Production Support - Buz ReidJill Unger


Gameplay Team

Production Team -
Santiago Jaramillo
Aaron McHardy

Development Directors -
Shelby Bailey
Katy Schütze

Technical Director - Ben Carter

Lead Programmers -
Dong Hun Kim
Tomoyuki Ishige
Jason Sanmiya

Programming Team -
Kieren Bloomfield
Dominic Bouchard
Vincent Chu
Andrew Hoo
Junichi Ishito
Maki Kato
Juneko Kurahashi
Paul McComas
Ki Young Moon
Asim Shahjahan
Takahiko Yamashita
Hitoshi Nishimura

Lead Animators -
Gareth Eaves
Craig Koehn

Animation Team -
Kantcho Doskov
Denny Lau
Joon Hyuk Lee
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FIFA 12

General Manager - Matt Bilbey

Vice Presidents -
Matt Bilbey
Kazuya Makita
Alexander Kachura

Executive Producer - Kazuya Makita
Chief Operating Officer - Alexander Kachura
Group Technical Director - Padraic O'Neile
Group Art Director - Matthew Jones

Producer - David Rutter

Franchise Development Director -
Jim Armstrong
Darren Wood

Technical Director - Nigel Rankin
Art Director - Mike Day

Production/Design Team -
Nick Channon
Sebastian Enrique
Simon Keith Humber
Munraj Hyare
Santiago Jaramillo
Ian Jarvis
Matthew Lafreniere
Aaron McHardy
Garreth Reeder

Development Directors -
Alison Gibb
David Grant
Tenille Jarvis
Bunka Sandhu
Katy Schütze

Additional Production / Additional Design -
Nathan Gallagher
Gary Paterson
Erynn Tomlinson
Peter Trenouth

Lead Programmers -
Andrew Cooke
Michael A. Jones
John Yixiao Lu
Kallol Mitra
Alan Poon
Kris Taeleman
Andy Younger

Programming Team -
Adam Bell
Daniel Peter Brown
Philip Carswell
Stephen Cavanagh
Ming Benjamin Chen
Timothy Chen
Alan Chung
Chris Chung
Yury Demendeev
Chris Duke
Andrew Fei
Mark Frederick
Chris Fung
Darryl Gates
Wu Hai
Otumara Harrison
Glen Kociolek
Alexei Koulikov
Dicky Lau
Victor Leong
Aaron Lewis
Gilliard Lopes
Maria Misalucha
William John James Motz III
Chris Munshaw
Aaron Oman
Dale Peterson
Matthew Peyrard
Ning Tang
Wilson Venhola
Scott Wardle
Robby Wong
Jonny Xuan

Technical Artists -
Maciej Kowalski
Michael Snelgrove

Additional Programming -
Ryan Boulanger
Jake Bruce
Damian Campeanu
Derek Kube

Production Support -
Sian Bell
Buz Reid
Jill Unger
Rebecca Wong


Gameplay Team

Technical Director - Ben Carter

Lead Programmers -
Dong Hun Kim
Tomoyuki Ishige
Takahiko Yamashita

Programming Team -
Kieren Bloomfield
Dominic Bouchard
Justin Tak Chan
Vincent Chu
Patrick Fomo Kongpinda
Andrew Hoo
Junichi Ishito
Juneko Kurahashi
Paul McComas
Ki Young Moon
Hitoshi Nishimura
Sandy Pang
Stuart Rowe
Jason Sanmiya

Lead Animators -
Gareth Evans
Craig Koehn

Animation Team -
Kantcho Doskov
Denny Lau
Joon Hyuk Lee
Robbie Warriner
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FIFA 14 (Console Ver.)

Developed at EA Canada

General Manager, Senior Vice President - Matt Bilbey
Vice President, Executive Producer - Kaz Makita
Executive Producer - David Rutter
Producer - Nick Channon

Gameplay Team

Producer - Aaron McHardy

Production/Design Team -
Jeff Antwi
Kantcho Doskov
Shaun Pejic
Samuel Rivera Silva
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FIFA 15

Developed at EA Canada

Vice President, General Manager - David Rutter
Group Development Director - Natali Altshuler
Supervising Technical Director - Jinsong Li
Group Art Director - Matthew Jones
Senior Producer - Nick Channon
Line Producer - Sebastian Enrique
Creative Director - Simon Keith Humber
Franchise Development Director - Scott Murray
Technical Director - Kallol Mitra
Art Director - Mike Day

Production/Design Team -
Adam Bell
Michael Brown
Alex Constantinescu
Munraj Hyare
Santiago Jaramillo
Matthew Lafreniere
Mike Peters
Garreth Reeder
Andrew Vance

Gameplay Team

Producer - Aaron McHardy

Development Directors -
Gerson Koerner
Corey Madsen
Lindsay Yeats

Technical Director - Dominic Bouchard

Technical Lead - Paolo Rigiroli

Production Team -
Jeff Antwi
Kantcho Doskov
Shaun Pejic
Samuel Rivera Silva

Design Team -
Jeff Antwi
Kantcho Doskov
Shaun Pejic
Samuel Rivera Silva

Animation Directors -
Gareth Eaves
Craig Koehn

Animation Team -
Paul Baruzzi
Daniel Caylor
Kyushik Choi
James Dykeman
Mark Fraser
Julian Green
Denny Lau
Joon Hyuk Lee
Wilson Leung
Fonda Louie
Jeff Martens
Duncan Shields
Luke Shier
Radu Varvara
Robbie Warriner
Rob Weir

Lead Programmers -
Dong Hun Kim
Kit Lo
Evan Williams
Takahiko Yamashita

Software Engineers -
Kieren Bloomfield
Ryan Cardinal
Brady Chen
Mihai Gabriel Chircu
Derrick Freedman
Andrew Hoo
Tomoyuki Ishige
Junichi Ishito
Michael A. Jones
Maki Kato
Patrick Fomo Kongpinda
Alex Linday
Masatoshi Matsumiya
Hitoshi Nishimura
Ciprian Păduraru
Stuart Rowe
Toru Tokuhara
Aleksandar Trajkov
Ionuț Tudor
Wilson Venhola
Kevin Voon
David Wong
Tybon Wu
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FIFA 16

Developed at EA Canada and EA Romania

Vice President, General Manager - David Rutter
Director of Product Development - Natali Altshuler
Senior Producer - Nick Channon
Line Producer - Sebastian Enrique


Gameplay Team

Producer - Aaron McHardy (same as FIFA 14)

Development Directors -
Tenille Jarvis
Gerson Koerner

Technical Director - Dominic Bouchard

Technical Lead - Paolo Rigiroli

Production/Design Team - (same as FIFA 14)
Jeff Antwi
Kantcho Doskov
Shaun Pejic
Samuel Rivera Silva

Animation Director - Gareth Eaves
Animation Team - Paul Baruzzi
Animators - Radu Varvara

Animation Team -
Andres Benitez
Eric Choi
James Dykeman
Mark Fraser
Alicia Kroeker
Denny Lau
Joon Hyuk Lee
Wilson Leung
Fonda Louie
Shakeel Noor
Brennan Robinson
Luke Shier
Jacob Sorensen
Robbie Warriner

Lead Programmers -
Dong Hun Kim
Evan Williams
Takahiko Yamashita

Software Engineers -
Kieren Bloomfield
Ryan Cardinal
Cesar Dantas de Castro
Brady Chen
Mihai Gabriel Chircu
Derrick Freedman
David Harries
Tam Ho
Tomoyuki Ishige
Junichi Ishito
Michael A. Jones
Maki Kato
Patrick Fomo Kongpinda
Masatoshi Matsumiya
Hitoshi Nishimura
Sandy Pang
Stuart Rowe
Toru Tokuhara
Aleksandar Trajkov
Wilson Venhola
Kevin Voon
David Wong
Tybon Wu
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FIFA 17

Developed at EA Vancouver and EA Romania

Vice President, General Manager - David Rutter

Senior Product Development - Natali Altshuler

Supervising Technical Director - Jinsong Li

Senior Producer - Nick Channon (same as FIFA 16)

Line Producer - Aaron McHardy

Senior Development Directors -
Scott Murray
Greg Palstra

Technical Director -
Darryl Gates
Ed Kilham
Xingwei Kong

Creative Director - Matthew Prior

Art Director - Michael Day

Production/Design Team -
Joao Barao
Alex Constantinescu
Munraj Hyare
Santiago Jaramillo
Mike Peters
Victor Popa
Claudiu Sofonea
Mat Thomas
Andrew Vance


Gameplay Team

Development Directors - (same as FIFA 16)
Tenille Jarvis
Gerson Koerner

Technical Director - Dominic Bouchard (same as FIFA 16)

Technical Lead - Paolo Rigiroli

Production/Design Team - (same as FIFA 14 16)
Jeff Antwi
Kantcho Doskov
Shaun Pejic
Samuel Rivera Silva
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FIFA 18

(Lead Gameplay Producer: Sam Rivera ? = Samuel Rivera Silva ?)

Developed at EA Vancouver and EA Romania

Vice President, General Manager - David Rutter

Senior Product Development - Natali Altshuler

Group Technical Directors -
Jinsong Li
Andrew Pojar

Group Art Director - Mati Jones

Supervising Producers -
Andrei Lazarescu
Aaron McHardy
Nick Wlodyka

Supervising Development Directors -
Scott Murray
Beu Vlad
Lindsay Yeats

Line Producer - Mat Thomas

Technical Directors -
Ed Kilham
Xinwei Kong

Creative Director - Matthew Prior

Art Director - Michael Day

Prodution/Design Team -
Joao Barao
Alex Constantinescu
Munraj Hyare
Santiago Jaramillo
Gilliard Lopes
Alexandru Pavlof
Claudiu Sofonea
Andrew Vance

Presentation Director - Fabrizio Muoio

Presentation Designer - Cristian Ovidiu Matei

Development Directors -
Reza Aghaee
Stefan Asmarandei
Alana Bergstrome
Andrew Gargus
Viorica Ghioc
Kartik Jayaraman
Adnan Olmez
Andrew Stanbury
Andrei Dan Vasile

Architect - Kevin Perry

Technical Lead - Alexandru Pascoci


Gameplay Team

Lead Producer - Samuel Rivera Silva (got promoted)

Development Directors-
Tenille Jarvis
Gerson Koerner
Phoebe Thompson

Technical Directors - Dominic Bouchard

Technical Lead - Paolo Rigiroli

Production/Design Team -
Kantcho Doskov
Shaun Pejic
Rhys Reyes


Animation Directors - Gareth Eaves

Animation Team -
Paul Baruzzi
Eric Choi
Ryan Dergousoff
Mark Fraser
Alicia Kroeker
Denny Lau
Joon Hyuk Lee
Wilson Leung
Fonda Louie
Alina Maniu
Brennan Robinson
Mircea Saftoiu
Luke Shier
Radu Varvara
Robbie Warriner
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FIFA 19

Developed at EA Vancouver and EA Bucharest

Development Team
Mihai Adamescu - FIFA Core - Producer
Reza Aghaee - FIFA Core - Development Director
Harish Anand - FIFA Core - Producer
Jeff Antwi - FIFA Core - Senior Game Designer
Joao Barao - FIFA Core - Producer
Kieren Bloomfield - Gameplay - Software Enginner
Dominic Bouchard - Gameplay - Technical Director
Ryan Cardinal - Gameplay - Lead Software Enginner
Andrei Chelaru - FIFA Core - Producer
Mihai Gabriel Chircu - Gameplay - Software Enginner (too many "Gameplay - Software Enginner")
Trevor Clelland - Gameplay - Software Enginner
Alex Constantinescu - FIFA Core - Producer
Kantcho Doskov - Gameplay - Producer
Ellyce Eddy - FIFA Core - Development Director
Munraj Hyare - FIFA Core - Producer
Lina Ingvarsdottir - FIFA Core - Senior Producer
Kartik Jayaraman - FIFA Core - Development Director
Dong Hun Kim - Gameplay - Lead Software Enginner
Glen Kociolek - FIFA Core - Lead Software Enginner
Gerson Koerner - Gameplay - Lead Development Director
Xingwei Kong - FIFA Core - Technical Director
Hanson Kwong - FIFA Core - Lead Software Enginner
Breno Leao - Gameplay - Game Designer
Hitoshi Nishimura - Gameplay - Software Enginner
Sandy Pang - Gameplay - Software Enginner
Diego Park - Gameplay - Software Enginner
Shaun Pejic - Gameplay - Producer
Rhys Reyes - Gameplay - Producer
Paolo Rigiroli - Gameplay - Technical Lead
Samuel Rivera Silva - Gameplay - Lead Producer (same as FIFA 18)
Phoebe Thompson - Gameplay - Development Director
Vyas Mohan Thottathil - FIFA Core - Lead Development Director
Toru Tokuhara - Gameplay - Software Enginner
Ignacio Vallejo - Gameplay - Producer
Andrew Vance - FIFA Core - Producer
Elliot Viechweg - Gameplay - Producer
Evan Williams - Gameplay - Lead Software Enginner
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FIFA 20

Developed at EA Vancouver & Bucharest

EA Sports Vancouver & Bucharest Executive Management

VP, Head of Operations - Natali Altshuler

Principal Art Director - Matthew Jones

Principal Technical Director - Jinsong LiAndrew Pojar

Executive Assistant - Rosa Mattia

SVP, GM, EA Sports - David Rutter


Development Team: Gameplay

Animators -
Paul Baruzzi
Eric Choi
Skye Ferguson
Gian Inocencio
Alicia Kroeker
Joon Hyuk Lee
Wilson Leung
Fonda Louie
Alina Maniu
Luke Shier
Iuliana Stănculescu
Radu Varvara
Robbie Warriner


Software Engineers -
Kieren Bloomfield
Brady Chen
Mihai Gabriel Chircu
Trevor Clelland
Derrick Freedman
Duncan Frostick
David Harries
Tomoyuki Ishige
Junichi Ishito
Michael A. Jones
Maki Kato
Masatoshi Matsumiya
Victor Ng
Hitoshi Nishimura
Sandy Pang
Kuldeep Panjwani
Diego Park
Stuart Rowe
Toru Tokuhara
Wilson Venhola
Kevin Voon
David Wong
Tybon Wu

Technical Director - Dominic Bouchard

Producers -
Thomas Caleffi Scaletscky
Kantcho Doskov
Shaun Pejic
Rhys Thomas Reyes
Elliot Viechweg

Lead Software Engineers -
Ryan Cardinal
Dong Hun Kim
Evan Williams
Takahiko Yamashita

Animation Directors -
Gareth Eaves
Denny Lau

Development Directors -
Cara Eckert
Darius Tam
Phoebe Thompson

Line Producer - Samuel Rivera Silva
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FIFA 22 (Console Ver.)

Lead Gameplay Producer - Sam Rivera (He and Samuel Rivera Silva are the same person? )
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FIFA 23

Gameplay Producer
Lead Gameplay Producer - Sam Kovalev
Kantcho Doskov
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FC 24

Gameplay Producer - Sam Kovalev
Gameplay Producer - Keegan Sabatino
Creative Director - Kantcho
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There's reason to believe that FIFA 18's Gameplay Lead Producer Samuel Rivera Silva has reduced 18's defensive AI.
Guess who are the culprits who made the 1v1 system that has been around since FIFA 20? ;)
 
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Yep. David Rutter and Gary Paterson are known to have come into the FIFA team saying "PES is a better football game than ours, I would rather play PES, we need to make our game more like PES".

His team made FIFA a more football-like experience, it felt more grounded and realistic than ever, and sales overtook PES.

Problem is, sales have gone up every year since, largely thanks to FUT, and what do FUT players want (as far as EA are concerned - through, in my opinion, some very flawed feedback gathering and assumptions based on usage data)?...

Pick-up-and-scoreability, no "AI defending" (which just translates to "no defending")... A hockey game.

The glory years are gone and I don't see them coming back. Nor do I see anyone serious taking them on at their own game due to licensing.

But I honestly, truly believe (and not just because of how badly I want it) that if they did a total reset and focused more on realism once again, it would feel like such a breath of fresh air to every player, it would be a hit. Every FIFA player and streamer says they hate the game (largely because hate equals views - just look at the news - but there's truth to the fact that a lot of people play it because they just have to win at something).
 
I believe Gary Paterson was also the driving force behind FIFA Street because he saw the value of a realistic game and an arcade game as two separate ventures.
 
Looking more into Paolo Rigiroli, I find it interesting he was the technical lead for arguably one of the best in the series, FIFA 16, then kept the same position as the game moved to Frostbite. The interesting part is that now is the Director of Engineering for Frostbite. Seems like a well played career move.
 
FCDallas_Fan said:
I believe Gary Paterson was also the driving force behind FIFA Street because he saw the value of a realistic game and an arcade game as two separate ventures.
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I was imagining the actual financial reasons EA could make a separate realistic game now, and I was thinking, how Football Manager can be used to scout real players in real life, what if EA created a realistic (enough) simulation of real life football, for clubs to use to test out tactics and players. This probably sounds like a fantasy, but I can’t think of other business reasons they might do it… but that sounds far more complicated anyway..
 
Chris Davies said:
Yep. David Rutter and Gary Paterson are known to have come into the FIFA team saying "PES is a better football game than ours, I would rather play PES, we need to make our game more like PES".

His team made FIFA a more football-like experience, it felt more grounded and realistic than ever, and sales overtook PES.
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Oh, FIFA 10, Lead Producer David Rutter, Gameplay Producer Aaron McHardy, Creative Director Gary Paterson. :SHOCK:​

 
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I know you didn't go that far back but Simon Humber, The Producer of World Cup 2010 absolutely deserves recognition. I think WC 2010 lays the groundwork for FIFA 11's trajectory towards contextual realism & beyond. His vision was to create a football game where there was risk & reward, and timing and error are considered much like it was on PS2 PES & he sought to integrate this in FIFA whereas it didn't really feature as prominently until then once it debuted on next-gen (FIFA 07-09)

Chris Davies said:
Yep. David Rutter and Gary Paterson are known to have come into the FIFA team saying "PES is a better football game than ours, I would rather play PES, we need to make our game more like PES".

His team made FIFA a more football-like experience, it felt more grounded and realistic than ever, and sales overtook PES.

Problem is, sales have gone up every year since, largely thanks to FUT, and what do FUT players want (as far as EA are concerned - through, in my opinion, some very flawed feedback gathering and assumptions based on usage data)?...
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Sadly, The customer is always right. And that phrase means the customer dictates the market. If our coffee shop sells more cookies than coffee, well then we become a cookie shop & start selling less coffee.
Chris Davies said:
But I honestly, truly believe (and not just because of how badly I want it) that if they did a total reset and focused more on realism once again, it would feel like such a breath of fresh air to every player, it would be a hit. Every FIFA player and streamer says they hate the game (largely because hate equals views - just look at the news - but there's truth to the fact that a lot of people play it because they just have to win at something).
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I also agree with this. Even a game like FIFA 16 is extremely responsive while having near-perfect animations and of course, was highly realistic and successful. I think people will play anything that's contemporary whether it's a simulation or arcade.

Just look at eFootball and how successful that's been despite its shortcomings. And that's still arguably a more realistic game than FIFA 23 when it comes down to the fundamentals.
 
Marlon Anthony said:
I know you didn't go that far back but Simon Humber, The Producer of World Cup 2010 absolutely deserves recognition. I think WC 2010 lays the groundwork for FIFA 11's trajectory towards contextual realism & beyond. His vision was to create a football game where there was risk & reward, and timing and error are considered much like it was on PS2 PES & he sought to integrate this in FIFA whereas it didn't really feature as prominently until then once it debuted on next-gen (FIFA 07-09)
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I've been playing FIFA since FIFA 10 for PC.
FIFA before FIFA 10 console version came along was crap:TTTH:, so I've been playing WE/PES.
WE3:98 WC, WE4, WE 2000, WE 2002, WE6FE, WE7, WE7 I, WE8, WE8LE, WE9, JLWE 9, WE10, PES6, WE-PES 2007, JLWE10, JLWE 2007, PES 2008 2009 for PC, and then I "defected" to FIFA :D.
Then I briefly played FIFA 11 and 2010 FIFA WC on PS3, but don't remember much.
I'll take pictures of the credits list for FIFA 11 and 2010 FIFA WC the next time I play the PS3.

btw. NG FIFA 07-09 had only 8 directions of movement, from 10 it's 16 directions (so called 360 Degrees) and gameplay fully evolved. So I think FIFA before FIFA 10 are trash.
 
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Marlon Anthony said:
I know you didn't go that far back but Simon Humber, The Producer of World Cup 2010 absolutely deserves recognition. I think WC 2010 lays the groundwork for FIFA 11's trajectory towards contextual realism & beyond. His vision was to create a football game where there was risk & reward, and timing and error are considered much like it was on PS2 PES & he sought to integrate this in FIFA whereas it didn't really feature as prominently until then once it debuted on next-gen (FIFA 07-09)
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So unfortunate the world lost him to cancer in 2015 at such a young age. He had such an impact on FIFA and IGNITE engine that the current developers still put flowers next to the goal at Portsmouth's home ground (Fratton Park) to honor his legacy within the game.
 
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/aaron-mchardy-58942649

Aaron McHardy​

Vice President, Executive Producer​

2K​

Mar 2023 - Present6 months
Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
I’m a Vice President and Executive Producer working at 2K to help the label expand upon its portfolio of renowned Franchises.

I think he's important, he was the Lead Gameplay Producer for 14-17.
Now NBA 2K gets him. :SHOCK:
 
Aaron is a legend, in my experience. Yes, NBA 2K is full of scandalous microtransactions but there is no sports game out there that can throw a stone at them with a clear conscience. Great move on 2K's part. Meanwhile, EASFC is on a scary path, judging by how close EASFC is to FIFA 23 on the pitch (it almost feels like everyone has forgotten that the gameplay is supposed to be the important bit).
 
dontellmama said:
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/aaron-mchardy-58942649

Aaron McHardy​

Vice President, Executive Producer​

2K​

Mar 2023 - Present6 months
Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
I’m a Vice President and Executive Producer working at 2K to help the label expand upon its portfolio of renowned Franchises.

I think he's important, he was the Lead Gameplay Producer for 14-17.
Now NBA 2K gets him. :SHOCK:
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“Expand upon its portfolio” 👀
 
Aaron McHardy moved to the American football franchises (Madden/College) at EA after 2021, which leads me to believe 2k brought him in to help with their American football resurgance as I believe they have an arcade American football game releasing in the next year or two.
 
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