Anonymous essay from a spouse of an EA employee

    THATS AN ADDON DONT COUNT!"!11

    anyway, read it, its doesnt really come as a big shock to me, Ive always known EA cared little about their employees and loves the monies

    Quote from Fletch

    Surely you don't consider The Sims: Makin' Magic a crappy game...

    I do , sucks bigtime , sims2 is fun for like 1 week..

    go play Blizzard games

    EA just makes game of movies which are popular so people think : WOW , NEMO The game ! and you see movie scenes and shit ass controls and whatsoever , EA sucks

    Quote from Nazul

    I do , sucks bigtime , sims2 is fun for like 1 week..

    go play Blizzard games

    EA just makes game of movies which are popular so people think : WOW , NEMO The game ! and you see movie scenes and shit ass controls and whatsoever , EA sucks

    It's in the game!

    Quote from GrayFox

    SSX is not crappy but then again it's from EA BIG...

    I loved SSX 3...my favorite extreme sports game of all time....though EA Big did it.

    Quote from Zaphod

    no, DICE made battlefield

    well i didn't love Battlefield, but i def liked it.

    That makes me think, any inhouse developed non sports game from EA internal studios (outside BIG) that people really liked? They must have put out something that was good....right?

    Westwood was bought by EA and relocated to the EA offices in LA, so if you want to consider that as in-house, C&C Generals may be a good non-sports game they did.

    dice owns me

    doesnt seem like the higher-ups at ea are very nice to their employees, so if this is true.. how do they keep people on the job?.. seems like alot of people wouldnt take this crap.. or maybe they just love the idea of making games so they take the good with the bad... weird...

    of course it's legal. it's already on gamasutra, bluesnews, shacknews,.. its basically all over the place.

    There's yet an other report from a former EA employee on livejournal. and it's just as bad.

    http://www.livejournal.com/users/joestraitiff/

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    However, I skipped many colorful and fleshing out stuff that shows you the culture of EA, e.g. the Executive Producer of the project hung a neon sign in the team area that said "Open 7 days" and constantly sent out emails to the whole team saying that he'd see them over the weekend.

    Quote from Urban

    doesnt seem like the higher-ups at ea are very nice to their employees, so if this is true.. how do they keep people on the job?.. seems like alot of people wouldnt take this crap.. or maybe they just love the idea of making games so they take the good with the bad... weird...

    As the experienced vets get fed up and leave, they replace them with naive new employees with not a whole lot of work experience. They eagerly take the job, and then are screwed over. They keep the job because a) leaving the team before completion of their first project could be catastrophic to future job hunts and/or b) they just assume it's the norm and don't think twice about it.

    I guess on some forums where this is going around there are people re-thinking their ambitions to go into the industry, assuming this is just par for the course. My understanding is also that many of the people that leave EA due to these circumstances end up leaving the industry entirely. Really too bad that people let themselves believe this is normal behavior.

    Quote from KungFuSquirrel

    As the experienced vets get fed up and leave, they replace them with naive new employees with not a whole lot of work experience. They eagerly take the job, and then are screwed over. They keep the job because a) leaving the team before completion of their first project could be catastrophic to future job hunts and/or b) they just assume it's the norm and don't think twice about it.

    I guess on some forums where this is going around there are people re-thinking their ambitions to go into the industry, assuming this is just par for the course. My understanding is also that many of the people that leave EA due to these circumstances end up leaving the industry entirely. Really too bad that people let themselves believe this is normal behavior.

    It could explain what happened with gamer55. Once a promising talent working at Blizzard, he died, became a complete hoax, came back alive and began writing fairytales on irc. A crunch musta snapped him

    hey! Dont mess with blizzard! best fucking games ever... (and i dont think they fuck their empleyees)

    (i hope)

    crap...

    But uhm.. What is the wisests decision to take when beeing fucked over like that, as was mentioned, it can be catastrophic to your career to just walk out on your first project..

    was that irony? or were you serious now?

    Hmm... maybe you are correct... but atleast they work long hours in order to make great games (not just stupid ones, like ea, that is 90% similar to another games they have)

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