EA Partners chief David DeMartini has predicted that start-up studio Respawn will do "great things" in future - but told CVG that he fears for the future of Modern Warfare franchise in the wake of the Infinity Ward exodus.
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.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
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.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
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.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"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.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
The developers have provided a little band-aid while PlayStation players attempt to get back into MW3.
you know i really cant wait to see what IW, oh i mean RESPAWN will do in the future,i will have my eye on them for sure,seems like we will still be seeing IW but just under a different name and hopefully we can see them make a even better game that becomes just as if not more popular as cod,with out IW Cod is nothing.im sure EA just jumped all over this deal,Hurry up and make us Gamers a Game!!
At least the whole debacle serves as an example for CEO's for how not to treat their cash cow game developers. Heads should role at the executive level (Kotick) of Activision - MW3 won't duplicate MW2s success or even come close. That being said, I think it's a lose-lose situation because RESPAWN likely won't duplicate IW past successes either.
Why are people already doubting respawn? EA see the cash potential in IW and I think they'll have creative freedom and the very best resources available to create a top game... while it might not be as successful as mw2.. but lets be honest, no game will match that success for quite a while. Look at what DICE done with Bad Company 2 with EA's backing.. what a great game that is!
i hope to see great work from respawn, heck something even bigger than modern warfare.
"call of duty franchise 'screwed' due to activisions arrogance"
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