EA vs Pandemic or.. 'The Ballad of Pandemic studios'.. some opinions

Feedback to Origin Staff:


Hi. I was unable to get The Saboteur to launch in Windows 10, so I made a fresh install of Vista Ult. x64 on another drive, still it wouldn't launch til after many hours, I ran msconfig and set the startup CPU cores to (2.. then 4 also worked). It was funny when Origin told me in a comical way to 'pleeeasse upgrade your OS' hehe :) but also a little cheeky. The Saboteur, by Pandemic and EA, was your GTA meets AC, having read why Pandemic fell apart, it's really sad. What happened? Pandemic was under loads of pressure from EA, so much so that senior staff became terrified at every decision. EA senior staff was getting annoyed that they had to keep checking on their work at Pndmc. But whenever Pndmc senior staff would grow in confidence, some EA middle management would come over give them all a telling off. crazy! Ppl would reg. leave Pndmc, coz it was a weird environment to work in. EA was giving mixed signals, on one hand couldn't be bothered with Pndmc senior staff to check on their work, next day a EA guy would show up and tell them to scrap half their work. You just can't have that in a work enviro. that ppl in-charge.. aren't in-charge! @Pndmc.. I see where EA was coming from, but maan uz handled it badly, you needed to get on to HR, hire someone and then let them do their job. Even enable them to fight for the projects they felt the strongest as this is *part* of the job being senior staff of a studio. R*/Take Two just hand out projects then let the staff at those studios get on with their jobs, this was the opposite. As a gamer and blogger, it is one of the saddest tales I have yet to hear.. 'the ballad of Pandemic studios' its my number two, after Team Bondi with a dictator at the helm.Regardless.. whatever you do, you have a great day, and thanks for reading this mini-blog :) Dava