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Brian Crecente
01/22/09

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uppdate: [kotaku.com]
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spacebob22
01/22/09

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the meeting is only on feb. 4th according to an inside sorce.
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Brian Crecente
01/22/09

@spacebob22: Feb 4 is the earnings report, but that's possible, just not what we're hearing.
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Indiedog
01/22/09

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The shameful part about this is that the people who will likely be let go are the people who actually toil on the games and who aren't going to save the company much money. They don't get huge salaries, they no longer get decent stock option grants, and they certainly don't make the ill-fated decisions that reflect in the poor sales of the games.

Where the company would actually save money AND help turn things around is to get rid of the bloated layer of middle managers and redundant executives. How many VPs does a studio like Blackbox need? How many Executive Producers is enough for a studio with 2 franchises? How many Development Directors does a project need?

That's the shame. The worng people will pay for the poor decision making.
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ThursdayNext
01/22/09

@Indiedog: QFT
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Wasted_Paper_Cow
01/22/09

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It's most likely a "two man enter, one man leave!" meeting. Either that or they will start cutting jobs right there and then, by the form of 21'st finger.

"Sorry, looks like you're cut. You did in fact have the 21st finger. Here is a gift basket with your retail copy of Skate 2, a Rock Band 2 T-shirt, and some axe body spray. See, even at EA, when we need to let people go, we give them a care package. Because of the times and hardships that are forth coming, all we can provide you with this wicker basket also filled with lints candy truffles, and used trojan condoms. See, everyone is a winner!"
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badasscat
01/22/09

@Wasted_Paper_Cow: Scully, you're cut. Brooks, Groening, Simon, you're all cut. Castellaneta, gone. Kavner, cut. Cartwright, cut. Smith, sorry, cut. Azaria, Shearer, you're cut. Firestone, you're cut. So is Judge. Namath, you stay. All of those people are cut. Johnson, Wolfe and Silverman are all cut. Goldfire, O'Brien gone. Cut, Elliot, I don't know what you're doing here because you're all cut. Pietela, Kuwahaha. Theres so many cuts here, look, I'll just post them up and you see where your name is. Look how many cuts there are there. Woah boy! You're cut. All of you! You're cut. I cut you!

- Homer Simpson
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Skunky
01/22/09

@Wasted_Paper_Cow: Actually, EA's a great place to get laid off from! When I was laid off after working their for four years, they continued paying me till the end of the year (was laid off in october 2007), cashed out my PTO, allowed me to use up the rest of my unused "points" in the employee store, and even gave me a downgraded badge that would let me continue to use the in-house gym till the end of the year.

I got a job pretty quick after that so it was like simply getting a few weeks off and relocating than really being unemployed.
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CockroachMan
01/22/09

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I can imagine the employees questions.. "Am I being fired?"
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Rez_Stevens
01/22/09

@CockroachMan: "No, no . . . wait, is that you Jenkins?"

"Yes sir."

"Oh. Yes Jenkins, you're being fired."

":("
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Skunky
01/22/09

@Rez_Stevens: Duuuuude, company-wide meeting just to fire one guy. That would be freakin' awesome...long as I wasn't the dude gettin' fired.
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Shocky
01/22/09

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Oh, company wide meetings are never good!
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Skunky
01/22/09

@Revenant: More like company-wide floggings.
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BritBloke916
01/22/09

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Part of the real tradgedy of what happening at EA is that from now on, their money-men will always be able to say "We tried developing new IP's, and look where it got us. The only safety is in barely modified yearly sequels".
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Logician
01/22/09

@BritBloke916:

Does that mean a neverending release of new [sports abbreviation] [year#] games?

That would suck so badly...
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Gaff
01/22/09

@Logician: Welcome to FIFA / Madden / NHL / NBA 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99... etc
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Skunky
01/22/09

@Logician: They need to break into new sports, it was cool to see Rugby one year in the US, then AFL another year, I think V8 Sportscar Challenge (Aussie only, typically) came out in the US one year.

Where's LaCrosse? I want to play as my favorite San Jose Stealth players! How about the Reno Championship Air Races, to compete again MS Flight Sim X: Acceleration? Ooh, I got it! Championship Figure Skating, if only so we can have Brian Boitano on an EA Sports cover.

I still think EA's biggest mistake with Harry Potter: Quidditch Cup is that they didn't release it as an EA Sports title and do it up in the proper fashion. It would be hilarious to have a group of Hufflepuffs shouting "EA Sports, it's in the game!"
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