Video Game designer coming into the industry with an outside pitch?

[greymist]

I think it depends greatly on who the person from the outside is, and what his background is.

One of my players worked at EA for several years (just left for a smaller company) and he spent a couple of years working with a guy from the outside who came to EA with a pitch for a game. However, the outsider had worked at Lucasfilm and at Pixar so he had some credibility, although he had never worked in the video game industry.

Sadly his gaming concept which my friend said was fantastic was killed by the suits at EA.