Comments on: EA Trims Losses With Major Shutdown

By: joinsideke

joinsideke — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:31:05 +0000

I hate buyouts, it just forces good teams apart. Creative minds separate so they can do what they love, becuase things will not work as they did under their prime conditions. So they scatter, and some start again- building another team and company up…. and hopefully sneaking under the radar and not getting targeted as a company that needs to be absorbed.

Irritating. It’s like a child mentality- If it’s shiny, they want it, and then- after some struggle- they get it, and it slowly loses its appeal, and they forget what the big deal was, and move on.

By: MakaiOokami

MakaiOokami — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:36 +0000

If Pandemic was making good enough games to not need E.A. they would have put in the contract that they get to keep most of the control over their franchises and other things that would keep themselves in charge of their products.

I mean it’s not like EA did a hostile take over right? There was an agreement and a transaction done? You really can’t fault E.A. unless there is evidence that E.A. forced themselves and were being dictatorial.

EA makes some bad games, they make some good games, and then they are part of some stellar games. Bioware is doing fine.

By: rudrick

rudrick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:22:04 +0000

@ John Draisey agreed

By: John Draisey

John Draisey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:28:45 +0000

I’d say it has to do as much with EA as it does with Pandemic. They were making stellar titles before being purchased. Yet somehow all that disappeared as soon as EA took over? I’d really like to hear from the ex-employees themselves about what kind of changes happened in the workplace after the purchase of their company, both positive and negative.

By: SPD55

SPD55 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:42:45 +0000

This is what happens when you are taken over and not appreciated, you start losing that competitive edge that made you great.