When Will EA Stop?

**$kelet0r** · 09-04-2006, 05:50 AM

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When Will EA Stop?

when they can no longer make profits from gaming

**SgtMattBaker** · 09-04-2006, 09:31 PM

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that was a big rumor, read it in gamespot

**Sub_zer0** · 09-05-2006, 10:03 AM

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Ea is not bad Ea didnt make bf series btw so dont blame them they make bloody good games And you couldnt dont like it dont play it. no stfu

**Scinto** · 09-06-2006, 11:47 AM

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lol amatuer,,

EA are becoming what BT(UK Fone Company) was 1 company owning all the Phone lines, same emphisis

**Eden** · 09-06-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by Sub_zer0

Ea is not bad Ea didnt make bf series btw so dont blame them they make bloody good games And you couldnt dont like it dont play it. no stfu

You obviously dont know much about EA. The reason BF2 has goten so bad is because of EA, the reason the C&C series has goten so bad is because of EA.

EA buy out companys, milks there game for all its worth then liquidise the company when they cant make any more money from them and if they cant buy the company they destroy there reputation or throw them into a legal battle that will tie up all the companys money untill they go bust. Its the way EA has operated for years and theres plenty of storys out there that shows thats exactly how they do things.

**Consultant01** · 09-08-2006, 07:50 AM

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i think you mean "liquidates". EA Liquidates the companies when they can not make any more money from them.

I would, however, love to hear some of the specifics surrounding these accusations. You make them sound like pirates... raping and pillaging the fair madens of gaming...

ahoy matey.

**TheEn|gma** · 09-08-2006, 08:00 AM

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Originally posted by Consultant01

You make them sound like pirates... raping and pillaging the fair madens of gaming...

ahoy matey.

LOL! I wouldn't be suprised if that pops up in a signature somewhere :p

**Consultant01** · 09-08-2006, 08:27 AM

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at least fix the way I noobed up the spelling of Maiden... :)

**Eden** · 09-08-2006, 08:40 AM

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Theres a really good site somewhere about one of EA's takeovers of a company but i cant for the life of me find it.

However this link goes to show how EA treats there employees.

As for games westwood is a great example of the downfall of the series, shortly after they were bought out by EA almost the entire original development team quit or were fired after the games release, the series hasn't been the same since. Heres a quote of one of the programmers hired for C&C generals.

"...it's all true.

I worked at EA Pacific (now part of EA LA) for 1.5 years as a lead programmer on Command & Conquer: Generals.

Those were, by far, the worst years of my professional life, and seriously damaged my mental health -- no joke. A year and a half later, I am still bitter.

EA expects outrageous working hours, on the order of 80-100 hour weeks, for months on end. If you desire to have absolutely, positively, no life whatsoever outside of work, and are willing to completely sacrifice your mental and physical health to be able to write games -- then by all means, go for it. (This is only partly a facetious comment, as I know people who are willing to make that sacrifice.)

Let's add to that the complete moral bankruptcy of the production staff. I was recruited there by a former friend (emphasis on former) to help revive the C&C franchise.... former versions had been fun, tongue-in-cheek wargames, but outrageous in many ways and clearly divorced from reality. The new version kind of stumbled around for a while... until shortly after Sept 11 2001, when suddenly the game shifted to be all about middle-eastern terrorism. The game was later promoted with the tagline, "Leaders in the modern world need to have a command of words... words like "Scud Missile", "Carpet Bombing", etc." (I asked m management who hired the sociopaths for our ad campaign, but somehow they didn't listen to me.) Oh, and then there was the mission in the game where your objective was to play the terrorist side, and use their anthrax-spewing tanks to kill 200 civilians (!). (This mission had to be cut at the last minute after the European offices rejected it as being certain to get a "Mature" rating. Yes, I had tried pointing out the... unsavory... nature of the mission months earlier.)

As soon as the product shipped, I quit, as did most of the development team. (That is, the ones who weren't fired for refusing to work 80-hour weeks, or for insisting on taking Christmas off. No, I am not making this up.) In hindsight, I should have quit much earlier; I only stayed on because I wanted my name in the credits, in case I wanted to work on other games in the future (thinking it would be good on my resume). The joke is on me, as there's really no way I ever want to work in that industy again.

While I was there, Fortune magazine listed EA as one of their top companies to work for. This was a particularly bad joke to everyone in our office, except that it wasn't very funny. When the CEO of EA sent an email to everyone in the company stating how proud he was of this, I forwarded it to my wife, who responded directly to him, stating that he should be ashamed, as she had hardly seen me for months, and the working conditions were abysmal. He (or more likely, one of his minions) responded that "sacrifices were necessary" to make great games. Sheez.

Shortly after I left EA, I happened to meet someone who has just started at EA-Maxis. I tried to diplomatically warn him that things could get unpleasant, but he reassured me that he knew what he was doing. One year later, he contacted me asking if my current employer was looking for help, as he had to quit -- similar conditions had destroyed his life (and cost him a girlfriend, as well).

Take this for what you will, but I cannot emphasize strongly enough: EA is, perhaps, an acceptable place for crazed workaholics in upper management... but for any other position in the company, no, no, no, no no..... "

Another one about an employee at Maxis which is quite good because he was there before Maxis were pulled into EA http://joestraitiff.livejournal.com/368.html

**Sub_zer0** · 09-08-2006, 10:15 AM

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So a few whining people dont make up a whole company jsut like a few whining players dont make up a whole comunity ea has nothing to do with the patches Dice make the patches not ea your the people who asked for things to get fixed dice fixes them you whine.

**Scinto** · 09-08-2006, 10:24 AM

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Originally posted by Sub_zer0

So a few whining people dont make up a whole company jsut like a few whining players dont make up a whole comunity ea has nothing to do with the patches Dice make the patches not ea your the people who asked for things to get fixed dice fixes them you whine.

this topic has nothing to do with BF2 or Dice, it is of what EA does when it buys out companys and the outcomes.

**Nate619** · 09-08-2006, 11:50 AM

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EA Will Never Stop!
EA Are a Bunch of Money Hungry Whores! (No Dis-respect Intended)
EA Is Slowly Taking Over The gaming World! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
ZIG-HAIL! EA!
....BTW....Before Everyone Gets All Ticked Off....Zig-Hail in German Means "To Victory"....I Hate It When Immature Tards Start Talking Smack Over "Zig-Hail".
-I Dont Like/Love EA What-so-Ever, I Just Respect Them Cuz They Have Been Playing Thier Cards...."Somewhat Right"....Making Them a Huge Multi-Million Dollar Empire.
""Money, Power, Respect""

**TheEn|gma** · 09-08-2006, 03:51 PM

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Originally posted by Consultant01

at least fix the way I noobed up the spelling of Maiden... :)

I told you :) and he fixed you Spelling mess up :)

**Cole-Train** · 09-08-2006, 10:18 PM

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EA has been slipping in game quality for a long time now, the games keep getting worse and worse as time goes by. thats why they bought a 7 year contract with the NFL, now for the next 7 years, all we'll see is the madden titles. but the reason they had to do that is because 2K Sports made a better game, and made it cost less. its the only way EA would compete is by throwing money at the problem, not by improving to make it a better game than 2K

I try to avoid games from EA unless they get amazing reviews (like BF2).

The only EA title i own are Need for Speed underground 2, and BF2, because most of the other ones suck, and will only suck more with time

When Will EA Stop?

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