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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."

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  1. 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)...

  2. 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.