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In response to "Why is EA so evil? The NFL monopoly or something? -- nm" by JaxSean

They churn their employees. Unfair work hours till an EAwife went public. They buy developers then disband them and obsorbe them into the company...

Posted by lileve (aka lileve) Mar 29 '12, 06:30

killing what was great about the dev teams.

A lot of what people are not griping about with MassEffect 3 I bet has partly to do with the influence EA now as on BioWare.

http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html (ea-spouse.livejournal.com)

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"are now griping" -- nm - lileve Mar 29, 06:41
that's from 2004. I think maybe things have changed since then. -- nm - iceberg jones Mar 29, 06:31 4
- the programmers I know around vancouver all regard them as about the worst company in town, but I know a composer who's worked for them on a few - mafic Mar 29, 07:00 1
  - The composer probably isn't in house. -- nm - lileve Mar 29, 07:51
- No they still are horrible. -- nm - lileve Mar 29, 06:40
- no, they still suck...they are just more careful after the lawsuits -- nm - ceregon Mar 29, 06:34

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They churn their employees. Unfair work hours till an EAwife went public. They buy developers then disband them and obsorbe them into the company...

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