EA Settles Overtime Lawsuit 54
Heffenfeffer writes "Gamasutra reports that Electronic Arts is settling their class action suit with their programmers to the tune of $14.9 million. It also turns out that one of the named plaintiffs of said lawsuit was the spouse of the formerly anonymous blogger "ea_spouse" who wrote a scathing commentary on EA over a year ago which may have formed the basis of this suit."
cat got my tongue? nope, just my paycheque. (Score:2, Interesting)
Game coder was my dream job (Score:3, Interesting)
But I certainly don't want to see my creativity shattered under unbearable timetables. I don't mind doing overtime. Currently, an average work day is like 10-12 hours. 'cause it's fun.
Being FORCED to work 14 hours and more is by no means any kind of motivation. Actually, I'd probably start sabotaging my own work.
Re:All that overtime ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Then they released a buggy expansion pack (no, there was no ladder kit in it)
EA has some amazing programmers, artists and designers, but their management has found a way to turn gold into lead. They bought Westwood and turned an award winning franchise into a fiasco. And in a misguided effort to push people towards the new bug-riddled C&C they killed the established C&C comminity by shutting down all the game servers and forum servers for the older releases.
It boggles the mind how irrational and out of touch they are with their customers and employees.
Did they lose, or settle? (Score:3, Interesting)
Did EA change their practices? (Score:2, Interesting)
and, on a side note, I wonder how this affects (if at all) EA Canada.