It’s Like the (Illegal) Drug Industry
November 24, 2004 · Posted in Games
I try not to post links to Slashdot that often but this one really got me going. After reading some of the (rarely useful) comments I thought I might as well dive in and check out the links provided in the post.
If you’re even remotely interested in the gaming industry, definitely give these a read. It’s amazing that these studios (particularly EA) are not regulated by a union or (God forbid) the government. People’s lives are regularly destroyed by companies like EA and even though I’ll admit that I’ve been addicted to Quake like Pookie on crack, I don’t know that I feel too good about the stories that are starting to spring up.
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Um, on one of those links the articles spans across 4 pages…. so I did not read any further from what /. had up there. But given phils ever loving need to build a game I will push myself to read the rest of the article. Just don’t ever say I never do anything for you!!! hehehe…
That’s fucked up. I am removing my EA Jobs link as of now. Any thoughts I’ve entertained of working at EA (and believe me there have been a lot of thoughts) are now dead. I won’t buy stock in this company either. Screw that. These people are morally bankrupt.
I believe that working in the games industry would be a challenge and a lot of fun because it’s a combination of art, programming, and storytelling. I think I can get that without working for a bunch of greedy studio pimps with zero, and I mean ZERO, ethics. Thanks for posting. Really enlightening to hear the stories.