owned.. by the biggest game company of them all.

Jay Evans

EA Pockets DICE
So, I've been at DICE for 3 years, guess the writing has been on the wall for a while now. Looking like we'll be EA in the near future. I work at DICE Canada, studio of around 40 people. Anyone been through an EA acquisition before? I don't really have any thoughts as what to expect, but I guess well figure it out in the next while. Any thoughts?

Justin Meisse

I read an article about EA shifting its focus from sports games and movie tie-ins to more original games, I'm guessing this is a good thing?

AstroZombie

Crap, sorry dude. I hope you boys manage to maintain some of your independence and creative freedom in the whole deal.

Daz

Yeah I have. There's no way you can predict how things will change, so just be prepared to roll with it, or go somewhere else If you dont like it.

scanning_factor

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Last time EA tried that it was called EA Partners, and i was fortunate enough to work for a studio that was part of that program and subsequently dropped after the project imploded because EA found it too hard to work with independent studios who wouldn't do things "the EA way". . .maybe they'll have better luck if they just buy folks up though.

adam

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go somewhere else

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*cough*

Robert Headley

Daz, I still mourn the loss of Dungeon Keeper 3.

PaK

EA has a good rep of destroying everything they purchase.
Westwood and BlackBox Games comes to mind.

-R

ElysiumGX

congrats to former Trauma Studios employees.

John Warner

wha ta lovely statement it would make if everyone got up and quit.
ooorrr maybe not.

Marcus Dublin

This just means whatever profitable title you put out, EA will have you make it over and over and over and over and over again!

Marcus Dublin

Scott Ruggels

Id say start workingon, and polishing your demo reel so that it's ready to send when the bitton is pushed, but otherwise, try as well as you can to retain your local culture, and resist the weird milestone goals EA tries to force on folks (Templating Sports games "Vertical slice", doesn't work for action RPG's well, for instance). Also if they make you sign a new contract, read it carefully as they occasionally slip in some "gotchas" about personaly developed IP, and/or your work on outside projects, such as comics or animation.

Scott

Jay Evans

Thanks for the insights and thoughts guys. I'll let you know how it goes:)

ElysiumGX, Trauma Studios, was DICE NY, now Kaos Studios, published by THQ

ElysiumGX

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Trauma Studios, was DICE NY, now Kaos Studios, published by THQ

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I know, right

SouL

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EA Pockets DICE
So, I've been at DICE for 3 years, guess the writing has been on the wall for a while now. Looking like we'll be EA in the near future. I work at DICE Canada, studio of around 40 people. Anyone been through an EA acquisition before? I don't really have any thoughts as what to expect, but I guess well figure it out in the next while. Any thoughts?

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Yeah. You'll be shipped to a US studio to help with a game. You'll become so entreanched in your work that you'll forget to go home. *cough*

KDR_11k

At least Battlefield 3 will have fewer bugs.

skankerzero

not to mention a rocking soundtrack by today's hottest artists and ads for their other games within the game.

KDR_11k

If it only was actually rocking... Seems more like popping and hip hopping to me.