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one of the professors at Carnegie Mellon University is giving a talk about EA after he visited the company for a semester. He also published a white paper about EA and what college grads should know about it. (PDF) EA: The Human Story (www.igda.org) Employees readying class-action lawsuit against EA (www.gamespot.com)
you took the words right out of my mouth.General Death wrote:I vote no...That would go for any game developer though.
Yes its not the place to work if you dont like short deadlines and long hours.
It those articles it shows what the world is coming too. People want to always point the blame on someone else. They knew up front what it would be like and later once they cant take it anymore they blame EA for there problems.
Like I have said before...
"lets start blaming cigarette manufactors for causing us health problems from the cigarettes we willing smoked; heck lets blame fatty fast food chains for causing us health problems from the fatty food we willing ate."
If you know ahead of time what your getting into and you accept.....its your fault now.
My visits to EALA has wiped the thought clean from my mind if I wanted to work at EA....It seems like a great environment but theres too many hours for my tastes.
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And so is it for some of their employees, guys here probably know people working there who really really enjoy it.
Ezykeyal wrote:It is good to work in the gaming industry but not when a publisher like EA is funding the project.
I have worked for Criterion games on the game Burnout 3 with EA being it's publisher.
They are living hell, they run the show, tell you what they like and what they want.
They can easily do that because it is their money they are spending on company.
I tell you it sucks, I rather work for a small developer where you are not a number and which is still running the show.
I'd never work for EA, they do not care about quality but about making money fast.
If you call the LOTR series they produced great then you suck, it's nothing more but a title milker...hack and slash through hordes of orcs and goblins, leveling up without any story.
Bah...
EA did NOT produce MoH, 2015 did.
She states that it is illegal, now, curiousity strikes me, in this era, the 'practical' thing to do would be to Sue the company. Hasn't anyone attempted if it is 'illegal?'The interesting thing about this is an assumption that most of the employees seem to be operating under. Whenever the subject of hours come up, inevitably, it seems, someone mentions 'exemption'. They refer to a California law that supposedly exempts businesses from having to pay overtime to certain 'specialty' employees, including software programmers. This is Senate Bill 88. However, Senate Bill 88 specifically does not apply to the entertainment industry -- television, motion picture, and theater industries are specifically mentioned. Further, even in software, there is a pay minimum on the exemption: those exempt must be paid at least $90,000 annually. I can assure you that the majority of EA employees are in fact not in this pay bracket; ergo, these practices are not only unethical, they are illegal.
