EA tries to aquire Take-Two

[Halifax]

Dude, there's so much bull in this thread... F**k!
EA is a big corp, and as such the husband story might happen, but every studio pretty much deal with employement how they see fit. EA Montreal was never and is not like that. I've worked there. I know A LOT of people who work there. Coders, for the most part.

By counting sold products in their store, I arrived at the same conclusion I had before. EA does about 1 original content for 2 follow-up. That is NORMAL in this industry. Any game that sell well will most likelly have about 2 expansion.

There are 4 big categories at EA: EA Sim (guess what they work on), EA Sports (which owns the biggest studio in the world and a stadium!), EA Games and EA Casual (Both having a lot more original content since 2006).

Now, of course some lines of games are full of expansion. TWO OF THE SUBDIVISIONS of the company are basically factory of expansions. Because people like it. And buy it. But more than half the studios are in the 2 other categories. And the internal politics vary a lot by studio. Please, stop spreading rumors. At EA Montreal, overtime is rare, well repaid in free days and benefices and all the advantages are making it easilly the prettiest suitor in Montreal, which has multitude of studios.

You want a soullless corp? Look at Ubisoft. Signing with them means signing a contract that says you can't work in the industry for a role similar to yours for one year after leaving or being kicked(!) by the company. So even if they reject you, you can't go elsewhere. Everyone here is calling this bullshit and completelly wrong. Do you see a lot of other professions where you can't go pratice elsewhere when you lose your job?

Please, enogh with the hate bash.

Woah woah chill. And wow, Ubisoft only makes you wait a year? Your freaking lucky as I don't know what then! Guess how long my brother had to wait before he could get a job in the service technician industry after working for Fuji films? 3 years. Don't throw that BS around in here, almost every company out there has that clause, and it isn't like there is an easy workaround to that. e.g. SPU programmer turned to 360 programming. It isn't that difficult to surpass, and it isn't like they lock you out of the industry. And I will reiterate my statement, it is a common business practice to put that clause in a contract.

[Dorth]

Not really. They are the only game studio that I know that does that. Also, this is really just bashing at this point. This thread should be dead already.

[rogerborg]

You're assuming that the protections enjoyed by workers in a communist State apply to those in the free world. How bizarre.

[sRc]

Not really. They are the only game studio that I know that does that. Also, this is really just bashing at this point. This thread should be dead already.

any business does that, one job i worked at a call center and in my employment contract I was restricted from working at another call center for 90 days

(technically, a lot of the people at the place I work at right now were subject to the same contract because they worked at that place as well, and that company could sue them because they got the jobs here while still working over there )

[Vsk]

You're assuming that the protections enjoyed by workers in a communist State apply to those in the free world. How bizarre.

Could you please sing a "comunist state" and a "free world" state?
I realy didn't know niether of them in actual time history .