Another example of EA's uber-shitness.
"Goldeneye" for N64 was created by Rare, then EA too over the whole Bond series of games and look what happened . They just have to go an ruin everything good.
Fuck EA and half of the industry. The only Decent guys to work for back in the day was GOD, now that was a truly good idea, it's too bad that corrupt fucks like EA and Co can only leech off what used to be a fun industry. I was once approached by someone from EA offering "incentive bonuses" and "other perks", and I told him "Fuck off, I ain't new in this industry, and while fucktards like you try to recruit the only hope for our industry (the newer generation of designers) and turn them completely against the industry or just code crunching monkeys; and making more than probably all the coders on all your fuckin' sports lines. You, sir, are the reason that our industry is stuck in a rut. Try listening to some of your programmers sometime, they have more brains in their asses than your entire management staff has in whole collective head."
Ah screw it, I'm going to learn some fucking Japanese and go work for REAL game developers, the one's who still have FUN while making games.
PS: At least Activision's getting what it deserves.
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Craps, I'm an old man!
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Yeah, but I think it gets the point accross how much I despise that company. They'd send recruiters to a grade school for christ's sake. Hell, I'm surprised they haven't shipped their developing out to china, where they can pay the little kids nothing and have them work long long hours, with zero complaining.
Maxis is a company that usually makes EA alot of money (not counting the Sims online), therefore Maxis can do pretty much what they want. And also, what little management punk is going to tell Will Wright to "hurry up his games?" Maybe Shigi Miyamoto could get away with that, but not the snot nosed little a holes at EA Management.
"Yes they did, and a company called Millenium actually made the game. I wonder if they still do stuff - or have they been eaten up by the Uber-Publishers?"
James Pond wasnt actually made by Millenium, they published it and I think they got bought by EA as I have James Pond 3: Operation Starfish (released 1993) for the Mega Drive and its published by EA not Millenium. James Pond was made by a developer called "Vectordean", the main guy behind James Pond, Chris Sorrell I think now works for Sony Cambridge (UK) who made Medievil on the PS One.