The Conquest of Origin

[yendi]

This article on the late history of Origin after the purchase by EA makes for some fascinating reading. Trip Hawkins, in turn, writes a letter back to them claiming that he's not really the antichrist.

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[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

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[texmorgan.livejournal.com]

A funny story about Lord British, he never graduated from highschool. He dropped out and told his family that he was going to make video games. The entire family told him that he would never amount to anything. Since then every person that said he wouldn't be anything has worked for him.

I used to work in the video game industry and it really is fucking brutal. I'll never work for it again. I literally worked 6 weeks 15 hours a day with no weekends. It just isn't worth it and I totally understand where these guys are coming from.

If you didn't know EA is the largest publisher in the world with Rockstar being a very very distant second. Think of EA as the Microsoft of the video game world.