Posted on 04/26/2006 4:11:31 PM PDT by Sofa King
In late 2004, Electronic Arts was tainted by the public revelation of a class-action lawsuit that asked for unpaid overtime to "a good number" of EA employees. The suit contended that several EA employees were not paid properly for long work hours--EA claimed they were exempt.
Jaime Kirschenbaum vs. Electronic Arts was filed earlier that year on behalf of many of the company's graphic artists. Kirschenbaum was, at the time, a member of The Sims 2 team. The suit was settled last year for $15.6 million.
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EA management is getting their just desserts...they are famous for screwing their employees and burning them out...good for the winners in this one and I hope ( but seriously doubt) that EA learns a lesson from all this negative reporting about how they are to work for.
EA is also famous for beta testing (sometimes alpha) on their customers.
Sony is worse. I've done official beta testing for Everquest before....seen bugs that were reported and fixed in beta, then when the expansions went live, they were back. Some were fixed months later, some still haven't been.
I've seen issues I reported in Dragons of Norrath beta (the very first one I did) still there.
Oh and for the record, each EQ beta NDA lifts when the expansion goes live on the public servers. :-)
I was recently invited to go to EA's Tiburon Studios to participate in some game testing. It should be fun.
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