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Peter Jackson Not Pleased EA Experience
The New York Times reports in an article about the King Kong movie based game that director Peter Jackson wasn't entirely happy with his EA dealings. From the article: "Mr. Jackson, said close associates, chafed at his dealings with the industry heavyweight, Electronic Arts, during the making of the Lord of the Rings games. 'Electronic Arts was not interested in input from the filmmaker,' but later marketed the games as if he were closely involved, said Ken Kamins, Mr. Jackson's manager."
There were no Elves at Helms Deep! Where does that no good hack Tolkien get off writting a crappy book about Peter Jackson's movie!
This is a good technique for slashdot. Now people don't need to RTFA too know all that the article has to say about the topic at hand.
Feel free to mod me "-1 - Angry Jerk".
EA manager: We are making a fighting game.
EA marketing: Let's use Peter Jackson's name and the LOTR name.
EA dev: We have this D quality fighting game for 2 years, we just need to slap on a label.
EA marketing: Mr Jackson please sign here for $$$ and direct credit to the game.
Peter Jackson: Great. Now I think the environment should....
EA manager: STFU. Let's put this game on the shelf asap.