EA buys into Mythic..

Post by **Lieva** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:57 am

<<merged bebop and sharks thread regarding this. Used bebop thread title as its more informative>>

<ankh> · Post by **<ankh>** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:59 am

omg...that sucks bigtime

EA are no good. They used to rock before they became as big as they are nowadays. Not only are they ignoring their game community, but they are apparently really bad towards their employes too.

Ah well... shit happens I guess

Edit: Good example how they ignore their customers: Battlefield 2... good example how they treat their employes bad: Westwood.

/Ankh

Hoonius · Post by **Hoonius** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:02 pm

<ankh> wrote:They used to rock before they became as big as they are nowadays.

/me remembers FA-18 Interceptor on his old Amiga, man i loved that game. EA used to rock but some of the horror stories out about their harsh development environment make you sick. i'll try and find one to link

Here is the blog i was thinking of

<ankh> · Post by **<ankh>** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:06 pm

Aye, F-18 Interceptor rocked...so did most of their old games... c64/Amiga.. Their new games are good too - but they are worthless when it comes to listening to the people who actually play their game. They keep on ignoring their requests and just implant worthless things and sell expensive expansions that arent really worth the cash.
I've read alot about them

Edit: Yeah, I've read that blog before.

/Ankh

Post by **Xest** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:24 pm

It's a shame Microsoft haven't pushed into game dev more, whatever people think about them they know how to treat their staff well. When I was speaking to some devs from Rare software (the company behind Donkey Kong and such) at a conference the other week they were saying their working practices have improved since moving to Microsoft - they actually had to work longer hours as an independant company. MS offers them upto a 20% of their pay as a performance related bonus, private health care and allows their staff to retain most rights on any IP they develop, so for example if you were the inventor of the next Mario, Lara Croft or Sonic the Hedgehog under them then you'd be laughing your way to the bank, most importantly their hours are fixed, 9 to 5 with the option for paid overtime at crunch time. Companies like EA could learn a lot from MS in this respect, the fact is it makes staff far more productive and creative than burning them out straight out of university does.

As many say, EA used to be good, but now they're just like a corporate plague, infecting and destroying everything good that enters the game dev. industry.

Kishih · Post by **Kishih** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:27 pm

http://vnboards.ign.com/daoc_general_bo ... 6/97390888

24 pages on vnboards and going strong, with a few posts from Sanya

Post by **Xest** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:46 pm

Be intrigued to see if this changes the relationship with GOA in any way.

Alexandrinus · Post by **Alexandrinus** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:09 pm

ok i tell you what will happenning
winners:
-first garnitur of managers...they already lough there ass of
-marketing will be much better,not for daoc because Daoc isnt a Cash cow anymore so it must have to die,too less profitable the manager will say
- WAR will get huge and they will try to match up with WoW

loosers:
-alot of peeps will loose there job
-DaoC playes we will loose our game
-the future WAR players wich want a complex game as DaoC is,complex games arent something for the Mass

Bebop · Post by **Bebop** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:35 pm

Banana wrote:<<merged bebop and sharks thread regarding this. Used bebop thread title as its more informative>>

I wondered what happened! ...tbh i thought shark haxxed my account

..j/k \o/

Kesxex · Post by **Kesxex** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:33 pm

So far I was eyeing towards Warhammer. With these news WAR is dead to me.