SWTOR and the EA stock plummet

Pretty much this. I love SWTOR but if EA dies in the process than it's a loss I'm willing to take.

Not only that, but EA is still one of the major pillars of the western video game industry.

If it were to fail, the domino effect across the board would be disastrous. People need to be more careful about what they wish for.

Yea why not? First of all many of them are outsources to foreign countries like India, they work only for the money and don't give a crap about American franchises like Star Wars. Secondly all those people will find better jobs with better studios. You really think anybody except for those on top working at a huge soulless studio that churns out cheap passionless garbage are actually happy?

You really think that developers would be to find better jobs with other development studios. I know a developer who worked in a development studio that shut down and he wasn't able to walk into a studio.

Also I have never heard of development being outsourced to countries like India, unless you are talking about customer support which is somewhat true.

I think people are happy to have a job in the current economic climate.

Development is outsourced to India all the time, in fact at big companies, most of the software developers even over in the states are from there. India isn't the only country for software but it's the main one, Russia's another big one. On the other hand, China and Korea is where alot of art gets outsourced to.

I worked developing banking software for big trading firms for 8 years and for every team I was on I was the only American, the entire floors were surrounded by dudes from India. The reason is because most Americans don't go into computer science, so they need to fill those jobs somehow, and in India the prevalent attitude is (moreso than here), if you wanna get a good job learn programming.

Also I empathize with your friend, when the economy turned bad they laid off my whole division and I've been out of work 4 years now. However, I started my own company and work on developing an Indie game, which is infinitely more fun and interesting than the work I was doing at those big banks. So yea, there are much better jobs out there for developers than being pigeon-holed at a big company, and if you can't find one start your own! You can actually do that in this field.

i gave you a link saying ea wanted to exceed wow's subscriber base

you're now a member of an exclusive club known as the silly list; either for purposefully misinterpreting what i'm saying, or for thinking that the game will have an asian release capable of propelling it to wow's subscriber base

Development is outsourced to India all the time, in fact at big companies, most of the software developers even over in the states are from there. India isn't the only country for software but it's the main one, Russia's another big one. On the other hand, China and Korea is where alot of art gets outsourced to.

I worked developing banking software for big trading firms for 8 years and for every team I was on I was the only American, the entire floors were surrounded by dudes from India. The reason is because most Americans don't go into computer science, so they need to fill those jobs somehow, and in India the prevalent attitude is (moreso than here), if you wanna get a good job learn programming.

Also I empathize with your friend, when the economy turned bad they laid off my whole division and I've been out of work 4 years now. However, I started my own company and work on developing an Indie game, which is infinitely more fun and interesting than the work I was doing at those big banks. So yea, there are much better jobs out there for developers than being pigeon-holed at a big company, and if you can't find one start your own! You can actually do that in this field.

China and Korea is where alot of art gets outsourced to.