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EA games is the well known company for such games as the 007 series, Need For Speed series, The Lord Of The Rings games, and especially the Def Jam fight series for mutiple consoles.
EA games is gaining into pretty huge popularity pretty quickly with a bunch of games with many caterories to choose from..action, adventure, racing, sports, etc...just so many to come and yet they do make alot of pretty good games, but what's not really good about EA games is that they aren't treating their employeers fairly with respect and stuff...always forcing them to work long hours with such little break and stuff and they crushed other companies like Acclaim and other small companies out of business and loses their rights to the games they were making and stuff so what do you think? is it fair that EA games should make the most games than other companies should? I dont think so. other companies should make enough games to sell and let people buy instead of just EA games...
anyway, here's the article:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/
and the quote from the "loserz" creator, Erik Schoenek
"This absolutely disgusts me. I thought these kinds of publisher abuse had ended when Atari learned its harsh lesson back in the 80's, but it seems that history is always doomed to repeat itself. It seems that now a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the employees of Electronic Arts has been started up to get them the money they've been literally abused out of getting, but as far as I'm concerned, that may not be enough.
I for one am apalled that this sort of thing is being allowed to stand, and I say it's time for the gamers to rise up and help those that provide the games for us. These are the people who bring games into our lives. They work and slave for hours and hours to bring us quality products and yet the CEO's in charge are abusing them in the worst slave-driver way. The worst part is that many of these game developers have no where to go because monster companies like EA drive the smaller ones out of business, and thus get more and more freedom to crush their employees under their thumbs.
What this will inevitably lead to is another video-game crash like there was in the early eighties, due to developers being completely burned out. We as gamers have a way to stop it. We can write angry letters to the heads of EA. We can stop buying the games EA makes until they show a little appreciation for the people that work so hard to make them money. Does the CEO and the human resources director of EA bring you the video games you love? NO! It's the programmers who are now being force to work 90 hour weeks with no overtime and no guaranteed comp time. We need to boycott EA Games and drive their goddamned corporation into the ground if we have to. They're only option will be to start respecting their employees again or die a slow death, which will put a lot of people out of jobs, true, but it will open the door for new, smaller companies to step in and fill the void that this conglomerate leaves behind.
I for one will not buy a single EA game until conditions start to improve for their developers, and I urge you all to do the same, unless you want to see another crash in the video-game industry depriving us of one of our favorite past-times."
EA games is gaining into pretty huge popularity pretty quickly with a bunch of games with many caterories to choose from..action, adventure, racing, sports, etc...just so many to come and yet they do make alot of pretty good games, but what's not really good about EA games is that they aren't treating their employeers fairly with respect and stuff...always forcing them to work long hours with such little break and stuff and they crushed other companies like Acclaim and other small companies out of business and loses their rights to the games they were making and stuff so what do you think? is it fair that EA games should make the most games than other companies should? I dont think so. other companies should make enough games to sell and let people buy instead of just EA games...
anyway, here's the article:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/
and the quote from the "loserz" creator, Erik Schoenek
"This absolutely disgusts me. I thought these kinds of publisher abuse had ended when Atari learned its harsh lesson back in the 80's, but it seems that history is always doomed to repeat itself. It seems that now a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the employees of Electronic Arts has been started up to get them the money they've been literally abused out of getting, but as far as I'm concerned, that may not be enough.
I for one am apalled that this sort of thing is being allowed to stand, and I say it's time for the gamers to rise up and help those that provide the games for us. These are the people who bring games into our lives. They work and slave for hours and hours to bring us quality products and yet the CEO's in charge are abusing them in the worst slave-driver way. The worst part is that many of these game developers have no where to go because monster companies like EA drive the smaller ones out of business, and thus get more and more freedom to crush their employees under their thumbs.
What this will inevitably lead to is another video-game crash like there was in the early eighties, due to developers being completely burned out. We as gamers have a way to stop it. We can write angry letters to the heads of EA. We can stop buying the games EA makes until they show a little appreciation for the people that work so hard to make them money. Does the CEO and the human resources director of EA bring you the video games you love? NO! It's the programmers who are now being force to work 90 hour weeks with no overtime and no guaranteed comp time. We need to boycott EA Games and drive their goddamned corporation into the ground if we have to. They're only option will be to start respecting their employees again or die a slow death, which will put a lot of people out of jobs, true, but it will open the door for new, smaller companies to step in and fill the void that this conglomerate leaves behind.
I for one will not buy a single EA game until conditions start to improve for their developers, and I urge you all to do the same, unless you want to see another crash in the video-game industry depriving us of one of our favorite past-times."
