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Layoffs At EA LA
by Maarten Goldstein, Jan 26, 2005 1:57pm PST1UP is reporting that Electronic Arts has layed off between 50-70 people from its Los Angeles offices, where a large part of EA games are developed. Apparently the teams affected are the ones responsible for GoldenEye: Rogue Agent and the upcoming Medal of Honor: Dogs of War. EA LA was also responsible for last year's Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault and The Lord of The Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth. Update: more info is available at GameSpot.
This morning, [EA LA general manager Neil Young] announced that the studio was reducing its staff by 60. According to Young, who spoke with GameSpot this afternoon, the layoffs were done in the interest of "rebalancing the teams across the entire studio." He called the cuts the "first step in transforming the studio for the future." [...]Although sources had told GameSpot that the teams behind the tepidly received GoldenEye: Rogue Agent and the near-complete Medal of Honor: Dogs of War were hit hardest by the cuts, Young said cuts were across all franchises.
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New from EA Games... Sweatshop 2005 where you start a 15 year career as a team manager putting out world class video games. You must keep your team happy-ish, while driving them to the brinks of insanity. New features include 'personal day approval' where you must decide whether letting your multimedia developer go to their mother's funeral is worth the slip in schedule. Transfer team members to other lower performing teams in order to maximize your cost/benefit ratio. Upgrade your staff with 'efficiency experts' for that extra paranoid boost of productivity. Move up the ranks of the corporate ladder while crushing those who stand in your way. Collect praise and bonuses for the slave labor of your subordinates.
hahahahhahaha
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The real pity is that there won't be fewer EA games.
heh, PA hits the spot.
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There was a nice balance of publishers for awhile, but all of a sudden EA is just going nuts all over everybody. Did they have a change of CEO, or a similar change of administration recenlty? Seriously, this is just crazy.
Luckily, though, I predict EA to crash and burn in the long run. Decisions that give a healthy short-term bottom line are not the answer. The key to long term success is customer and employee satisfaction, as well as delivering a solid product. Sure, they can fire people and crank out tons of shit games for awhile, but eventually it's going to catch up with them.
And then we will all point and laugh.
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How many more steps like that can they take before they're out of employees?
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Step 1: over work employees.
Step 2: buy your competitors, or if u cant, at least get the rights to what they make, so they cant compete anymore.
Step 3: now that you own everyone, fire some people. an employee that refuses to be over-worked is an employee you dont need.
Step 4: buy some more people out.
Step 5: get a PR guy to make all the evil shit that you do sound like a good thing.
Step 6: repeat steps 1-6.
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Just before they get their bonus, yeah! Saves EA a lot of money.
Money they will use to make even better games!
God, EA rocks my world!
But I guess they overstaffed a couple projects with the intent of spreading people out later, but they over-hired and had to trim the fat.
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god I hate this "I hate EA Bandwaggon"
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"You're Fired"
In these days our crimes are paid
by our wasted sweat on the kiling maze
with freedom stains upon your hands
what do you do for a living ?
and how does it feel
to watch the bosses rise
while people fall
patriots to comfort delusional
another time, in another place
for better life than this rat race
Our labor's lost
too many lifetimes wasting
how many words did it take
and when was the first time
it stuck your heart with fear
was it worth it to salute the culture
that takes the life out of us
to oil their weapons
rise or rust
our labor's lost
Seriously, how come you almost never hear of a company letting go of their CFO because "That dude was making like, $40,000,000 a year. We decided to buy a copy of quickbooks to fill his position and give his salary out as bonuses."
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Rebalancing my ass. If they can afford these recent lucrative deals, I don't see what's out of balance aside from the executive roadmap.
EA, apparently run by completely insane people.
EA - BUY OR OUTSOURCE EVERYTHING.
Don't challenge everything, assimilate then ruin it.
FreshView: I just saw your post on the shack
FreshView: you misspelled "EA is the most evil and horrible company on earth"
Dag: i did
Dag: youre right
Dag: haha
FreshView: I understand
FreshView: the keys are like right next to each other.
My bad, guys...
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I guess these people didn't want to work 168-hour weeks
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Thanks, bye.
rebalance everything