Peter Moore blames Wii for EA Sports staff exodus

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Star Scream said:

Destroyer_of_knights said:
Hmmm, I suppose the people unwilling to change, are those that wanted to see if they could push themselves and push the hardware to try and achieve more realistic graphics, and more realistic animations and AI....the wii to them may have been a stagnant pool of water, and found their river on the teams that were handling games for the competition. Hell it's like an abstract artist being told, you are no longer doing abstract art, your now doing anime art, so get cracking....To this abstract artist, he's lost the freedom to express and progress the form of art which he loves.

So really it's not that they don't want to change per se, more that they want to refine and progress what they've been doing all these years with out being hindered.

take that as you will.

 

Excellent post - that's exactly why these talented people decided to take a risk and leave the company.

 

I work in a videogame company. i really small one, and we do flash games for people like Nickelodeon and such. I am an animator, and as a professional in my career, i feel reallly glad in the place that i am right now, just because there so much liberty and what you can do.

In contrast, I have a friend of my who used to work in EA doing the lighting of the fields for the FIFA games. That what he did for 3 years, and then he leaves the place, because it didn't feel satisfied with his job.

People saying that EA (and big companies in general) are big and huge company that the main propose is to produce and not to create....they dont know how right they are in their comments.