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ESA Releases Annual Report For Public Consumption

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the demand-transparency dept.

For the first time ever, the ESA has released their annual report for public consumption. Highlighting the details of how the massive amounts of publisher money was spent, the report covers: "federal work, a state-by-state breakdown and goes into other initiatives, like anti-piracy and general research endeavors. There are no answers to why organizations like Activizzard and LucasArts left, but it does give a fairly comprehensive understanding of what the lobby group does to protect its clients."

12 comments

  1. Wrong link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I can't find anything about that in the ESA website

  2. Wrong ESA by mapsjanhere · · Score: 1

    And I was now expecting something interesting from the European Space Agency...

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  3. Am I the only one... by Daimanta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    who thought of the European Space Agency?

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    1. Re:Am I the only one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Am I the only one who thought of the European Space Agency?

      Apparently not.

    2. Re:Am I the only one... by damburger · · Score: 1

      I did. I think its a far more common use of the algorithm.

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    3. Re:Am I the only one... by TriggerFin · · Score: 1

      I'd think that in /.games at least, that would be by far the less-used acrophobe.

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  4. Of course that's the wrong ESA by slew · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course that's the wrong ESA ;^)

    Entertainment Software Association (www.theesa.com) the ones to bring you the E3 conference, not European Space Agency (www.esa.int)

    The ESA (the space agency one), of course also spends massive amounts of money too, but in their reports, they talk alot about new countries that want to join. Unfortunatly, in their reports, the ESA doesn't give a comprehensive understanding on what their lobbing groups do for their projects (other than convince european countries pay for the galileo navigation system)...

  5. abbr element couldve saved a lot of disappointment by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 1

    <abbr title="Entertainment Software Association">ESA</abbr>

    Something to consider, /. editors.

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  6. The what? by Onan · · Score: 1

    Some day, some glorious day, slashdot's "editors" will realize that even though we're all geeks, we may not share the exact obsessions of submitters well enough to recognize their acronyms for obscure niche entities.

    Of course, that'll probably be well before the day when we get to moderate submissions, submitters, and editors. Something we've been needing for about the past decade.

  7. No story... by rtechie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The big question is:

    Why did Activision/Blizzard, id, and Lucasarts (and others) quit the ESA?

    The report doesn't address this at all and Activision etc. aren't talking. The only hints I've heard have been complaints that they didn't like the way ESA was spending their dues. Releasing the report is consistent with that, but that doesn't seem like enough to quit.

    1. Re:No story... by ukepyper · · Score: 1

      Why did Activision/Blizzard, id, and Lucasarts (and others) quit the ESA?

      Half the readers for this article came here by mistake thinking the ESA in question was the European Space Agency.
      I think that's the answer why household names left the inert agency that hides from press stories about GTA among others...

      To put it plainly, they have left because they just don't want to foot the bill for an European GPS network, so left.

  8. Link by OneMadMuppet · · Score: 0

    Link to TFR: http://www.theesa.com/about/ESA_2008_AR.pdf