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Hard times ahead?

  • Kosmo
  • October 21, 2005 at 12:46 PM
  • Kosmo
    • October 25, 2005 at 7:19 AM
    • #41

    Discussion has evolved from person point of view to company scale, which is also good since different companies and different management styles create different environments for the workers.

    Ofcourse these things are rather obvious, company has to make money, bigger corporations have alot more to answer for than smaller companies, and from medium sized company to large the management costs start to rise exponentially, risk taking is not an option because it involves alot more than just the risk takers, and in the worst case, if you take too big of a risk, you might end up losing it all, hundreds of people might end up losing also and you might even end up in jail.

    But I think we all know everything about this.

    But what changes for worker in small, medium and large company? Even if the large company can support the continuous development more securely than a small company, and because small companies take risks they might backfire. So is it that the larger the company the better you are?

  • kleinluka
    • October 27, 2005 at 1:12 AM
    • #42

    In terms of EA being the badboy of the industry:

    Billboard for Electronic Arts placed in front of a competitor's building. The text is written in ASCII code and tells: "Now hiring!"

    [Blocked Image: http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/3619/eahiring2ge.jpg]

  • Kosmo
    • October 27, 2005 at 7:37 AM
    • #43

    That is pretty clever, I would have NOT made that ASCII thing out if you didn't tell.

    But yeah, some of EA tactics are pretty bully like, they like rattling them cages, even if to see how the competition responds. They own few of the biggest licences, they have bought several smaller companies to make sure they didn't work for the competiton, they are easily the most agressive advertising company in the gaming industry, I can't remember when was the last time I saw a game ad in TV that wasn't EA game, maybe it was HL2.

    It's not a fad that EA is well, not necessarily bad, but they act like any other big company.

  • ginsengavenger
    • October 27, 2005 at 8:04 AM
    • #44

    heh, I remember that one. It's not that tough, at the time I ran the first three through charmap and it's obvious enough ;P

  • Kosmo
    • October 27, 2005 at 9:24 AM
    • #45

    Aww, I want to live in Evil Imperium of Canada, it would be so much easier to get a job, eh.

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