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EA Faced With Another Employee Lawsuit
GamesIndustry.biz has the news that EA has been slapped with another employee-filed lawsuit. He's part of the engineering staff, and feels unfairly targeted by the "creative staff" laws in CA. From the article: "...in the midst of a storm of unwanted publicity about EA's employment practices, and provoked a response from the firm's vice president of human resources, Rusty Reuff, who admitted that 'as much as I don't like what's been said about our company and our industry, I recognize that at the heart of the matter is a core truth.'"
Allowing for longer development time is a great option -- if you want to go out of business fast. In the real world, you miss the holiday season and you are screwed. Nobody likes games with graphics that are even slightly behind the state of the art, so you have to stay on schedule. There have been lots of great games that flopped simply because they were released a couple of months too late.
In any case, this is a management problem. Avoiding this problem is how good managers earn their salary. Unfortunately, good managers are few and far between, and natural selection does not do a good job here.