It's considered professionally courteous not to slag off a company you used to work for in public. Sledgehammer Games boss Glenn Schofield obviously hasn't heard of professional courtesy, and he's got no love for former taskmaster Electronic Arts.
"Wow, a year ago today I left EA," reminisced the developer via Twitter. "What a day that was. They really treated me like shit even after creating Dead Space for them.”
After the inevitable whirlwind of attention that Tweet got, Schofield had this to say: "Seems my Tweet got some attention. Didn’t mean to. But after a year of EA bashing us it’s good to get it off my chest."
Despite the irony of a man under the thrall of Activision complaining about maltreatment at the hands of a publisher, I have to say that I like this guy. This guy has balls, and as the saying goes, I like balls.
[Via Glen Schofield's Twitter]
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10:40 AM on 07.21.2010 | 
That guy got a quad, respect for that.
That also leads me to believe that he isn't dumb. He knew that tweet would get some attention his way. I've seen him in those Dead Space videos and he's a guy who clearly likes the publicity. In the end, he's just shooting fish in the barrel for his own sake. Yeah, I'm stating the obvious, but so was he.
Yep, the part about Jim liking balls.
Funny how everyone clambers to EA as a great example of a publisher only for them to hide behind a "we want to try new things, but screw you all with dlc" facade.
He will if the game's good enough. You really think any publisher would pass up a potentially great game just because of some unflattering tweet?
Regardless, balls indeed.
Big companys do big company stuff.