<div class="IPBDescription">It's a pink slip!</div>To celebrate the completion of Battlefield 2, EA decided to reward the developers with this:
<a href='http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/37305' target='_blank'>DICE New York Closed</a>
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this is the closing of a new york office and those members were offered employment in the Sweden office if they wanted it.
No. I'm not going to make any assumptions yet. I want to hear from the guys that got it.
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how would you like it if your boss came up to you saying wow you did a great job so we are closing down the store if you want we can give you a job half way across the world
edit: in other words, they probably knew about this well in advance.
This is, sad to say, standard EA company policy - reduce the employee's ability of profiling himself, and you reduce the chance of losing him to the competition. All I can by now say about that company is that I wish their current stock situation remains a little longer...
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Most likely they're under NDA's. That's usually standard procedure. Make em sign a contract promising not to talk under threat of a legal enema...
Seems mighty underhanded to me.
1.) Jamster
2.) EA (moving up)
3.) Comcast (moving down)
4.) Mc Donald’s
5.) Wal-Mart
... Not that it's undeserved, or anything. EA can go straight to Hell for all I care.
The direct quote: "The deal contained value in form of rights to trademarks as well as a new game concept"
So they were brought on with the interest of buying their franchise rights, basically with no intent of keeping them long-term. In addition, whatever new concept they were working on now is now DICE property. Everything they have to their name is now owned by another company, they lost 200,000 in payments from the original agreement on the final amount, and as a final slap to the face an offer to move to Sweden. Yeah, you can keep your job, but only by risking everything on a probably not at all secure job venture somewhere in Europe. I bet most of them couldn't even afford that sort of move.
Yeah. Let's see how many people root for DICE now when EA continues its buyout effort.
1.) Jamster
2.) EA (moving up)
3.) Comcast (moving down)
4.) Mc Donald’s
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Damn. Our lists are the same.
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@Nil IQ. ROFL Condizzle is pwning you sig-wise on a regular basis. He's going to figure out what color you used and change to that one immediately.
1.) <b>That bastard that let Haze die tonight right in front of his eyes on WoW and did absolutely nothing about it because hes <i>an incredibly nasty word.</i></b><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Damn. Our lists are the same.
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@Nil IQ. ROFL Condizzle is pwning you sig-wise on a regular basis. He's going to figure out what color you used and change to that one immediately. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Seems like it.
1.) <b>That bastard that let Haze die tonight right in front of his eyes on WoW and did absolutely nothing about it because hes <i>an incredibly nasty word.</i></b><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Damn. Our lists are the same.
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@Nil IQ. ROFL Condizzle is pwning you sig-wise on a regular basis. He's going to figure out what color you used and change to that one immediately. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Seems like it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh my god I nearly woke up the whole house again.
They fire 12 people that didnt program or anything like that, and their americans and was offered to have jobs in europe? Whats not to like
They didnt like shut down their sweden jobs? Or canadian
<!--QuoteBegin-http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=240+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=240)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->More On Trauma Studios Closing
Gamecloud spoke on the phone today with Frank DeLise, the head of Trauma Studios and the main creator of the Battlefield: 1942 mod Desert Combat about today’s decision by Digital Illusions (DICE) to shut down the offices. DeLise said the 12 employees of Trauma were just informed about the decision to close the studios today, <b>although he told us he knew about the decision sometime before then</b>. The reason for the closing was because of Electronic Arts’ majority purchase of DICE’s stock earlier this year. When EA bought into the company, it was decided that having a New York office along with the Swedish and Canadian studios was not going to be viable. <b>DeLise did tell us that the final decision to close Trauma was made by DICE, not EA.</b><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Man, I feel like adding on to DOOM's slashdot injuries now...
1.) Jamster
2.) EA (moving up)
3.) Comcast (moving down)
4.) Mc Donald’s
5.) Wal-Mart <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
QF-INCREDIBLE-T
1.) Jamster
2.) EA (moving up)
3.) Comcast (moving down)
4.) Mc Donald’s
5.) Wal-Mart <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
i like mc donalds <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> go resturant den gule måge
1.) Jamster
2.) EA (moving up)
3.) Comcast (moving down)
4.) Mc Donald’s
5.) Wal-Mart <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i like mc donalds <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> go resturant den gule måge <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I cannot understand
what you are saying
Mr. Metallic Feline
1.) Jamster
2.) EA (moving up)
3.) Comcast (moving down)
4.) Mc Donald’s
5.) Wal-Mart <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i like mc donalds <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> go resturant den gule måge <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I cannot understand
what you are saying
Mr. Metallic Feline <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
i dont really care
because thats how i am, funny
you do not understand