Why you should boycott EA, and tell them you're doing it

[unixronin]

ea_spouse tells the story of the EA Sweatshop and EA's apparent employment and HR policy -- "Lie to prospective developers, get'em in, use'em up, burn'em out, then discard'em and get a new batch."  EA is working their developers eighty to ninety hours a week for a year at a time, with no overtime and no comp time whatsoever, and their product schedules are clearly planned on that basis from the start.  EA has apparently decided it's more cost-effective to regard entire development teams as single-use, throwaway fungibles.

Quoth micheinnz:

As others have said, if you choose to boycott EA because of how they treat their workers (and if I were a gamer I'd be seriously considering it), please drop them a line every time they release a title you'd otherwise have bought, explaining why you're not going to.  Silent boycotts make no difference at all.

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[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

You might find Accidental Empires (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887308554/qid=1100464895/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-4847466-4889636) an interesting read, particularly the chapter entitled, Chairman Bill leads the Happy Workers in Song.