Old fart and Vice-President of Tripwire Interactive. Partly responsible for Red Orchestra: Combined Arms, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, Killing Floor and the upcoming Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad. Also an evil leftie, responsible for all the Socialist evils of the world. By American standards, a baby-eating Marxist - by European standards, a centrist Capitalist. Just goes to prove that everything is relative.
Posted by Alan Wilson on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST in
Over the last few days, we have had a large number of responses to our job postings here on Gamasutra. There are some great potential employees in the pile. But some of you... LISTEN to this rant, please!
In recent weeks, EA has aligned all elements of its organizational structure behind priorities in new technologies and mobile. This has led to some difficult decisions to reduce the workforce in some locations. We are extremely grateful for the contributions made by each of our employees those that are leaving ...
Very true - still reaping the rewards of their habit of acquiring everything that wasn 't nailed down while they were cash-rich a few years ago. Then add on the inability to change with the times and changing market demands. Now there 's a new CEO - so another opportunity ...
Do the math.... IF EA put up 35m, plus all the marketing costs and the rest - AND they didn 't take the IP - then I 'd say 38 got a pretty good deal. It would take EA something like 1 million units just to recoup their costs. I ...
I wrote a comment on this one back when the whole 75m deal was announced. Being a smart-arse, I was completely right at the time. I will now sum it up in a much briefer comment: r n r n What a bunch of idiots. r n r nSympathies to ...
