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EA Games: The Human Story

Posted by Zonk on from the programmers-have-to-sleep,-remember? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Electronic Arts employee spouse speaks out against company crunch time practices. From the post: "EA's bright and shiny new corporate trademark is "Challenge Everything." Where this applies is not exactly clear. Churning out one licensed football game after another doesn't sound like challenging much of anything to me; it sounds like a money farm. To any EA executive that happens to read this, I have a good challenge for you: how about safe and sane labor practices for the people on whose backs you walk for your millions?"

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  1. #gh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not in bush's America !!

  2. Sports games by RandoX · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like watching sports, but I never understood the draw to sports games. Maybe it's just me.

    1. Re:Sports games by millwall · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I like watching sports, but I never understood the draw to sports games. Maybe it's just me.

      These random sentences (that vaguely has something to do with the articles) that are being posted, in attempts to claim "first post" without trolling.

    2. Re:Sports games by monkeyGrease · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      The g-force is not necessary for a realistic racing game. I race in a real-world series where we pull almost 3gs with certain tires on certain tracks. I practice with F1 99-02 (an EA sim) and GPL (Grand Prix Legends, a 1998 Papyrus sim). The car control, thought process, and concentration are all very similar to the real thing. 'hopelessly unrealistic' for 1st person vehicular games is not true.

  3. sports: by DMJC-L · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    crap in reallife, crap in a game! back to the computer playing ut2k4 and some random RTS! this is slashdot! nobody plays sport here!

  4. ITS IN THE GAME! by Oct · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ok, so many of you probably dont like EA Sports games, but personally, Im a sports fan/athlete and a computer geek. Odd combo...i know. Anywho, Ive been playing their Madden Football 2k5 for a couple days on franchise mode, and i have to say it IS better than in the past (i remember madden 64, that game was fun too i guess)...but there is something REALLY anoying about it....on every option that is new about the game...it says NEW in a big lettered yellow tag. It almost makes me wanna not play it. One other thing that needs improvement, the anouncing. Its like the John madden anouncing of console football games, oh wait it is :P

  5. News Slashdot won't report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://secunia.com/advisories/13144/

    Slashdot is holding back on this because they don't want to kill the Firefox buzz after the 1.0 release.