@Kai -- I think you hit it on the nose. Although EA is surely looking to scale back their operation permanently, I agree with you that this is partly a way for them to 'cook the books' for quarterly earnings v. personnel. Also what you said is true about this ...
@ Tommy Hanusa-- Well said people need to just give it a rest or turn the microscope back on themselves and all other potential sources for all thats wrong in the world today.. Videogames catch all the flak for this kind of thing primarily because its still the youngest entertainment ...
Playing devils advocate on the subject of balancing if you end up with too many areas in an open-world title where you can simply own everything, the developers finds themselves faced with a serious loss of content, most gamers casual audience aside play games for a challenge through-and-through, and cleaving ...
Alot of these suggestions strike me as very 'self-helpish' -- not to say that there arent some hidden pearls of wisdom to be found by reading between the lines. Sadly the design portion of the article, which I was most interested in reading fell flat in my opinion more so ...
