During the 2009 Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, Perlman started screaming at Gaikai CEO David Perry, who came by to see his competitor. When Onlive launched on June 17th 2010, Gaikai announced a deal with Electronic Arts - and a multi-year one to boot. Now, EA had already been on board with OnLive with Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins ready to launch, but Perlman's reaction to the Gaikai deal and his demands for EA exclusivity caused problems. EA ended up denying him exclusivity, so he pulled all their games from the service at the last minute. Add to this the fact that any game which ended up on Gaikai had its plug pulled from OnLive even after testing.
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
Perlman clearly had no clue on how to run this business or what it was actually worth when offers finally came in.
Curt Schilling or Steve Perlman which is the lesser of two evils?
onlive might do better now..
I love facts. That Pearlman guy can't deny any of this because there are multiple witnesses to all the events mentioned.
People like that are useless to companies.
He is a Boss......Not a leader.