You would need to actually work in a big office enviroment to get it I guess, if you can't imagine the scale of disruption of half your crew working remotely, some on shitty home hardware.
Don’t get me wrong I understand it’s been disruptive, but almost every large company adapted pretty quickly to a new reality. Even super conservative old school places rolled with it and have reaped the rewards. I worked at the best/largest shop through the pandemic and it was easy to have a zoom call at 8.30 and say right today I’m doing X, you’re doing Y and they’re doing Z. There’s probably an argument in the hardware at home not being of the same standard for something specialised like game development but then they probably sold 3 x what they expected in EA. Pony up for the hardware at home if you need to so you can deliver. I don’t feel it’s as material factor as it’s made out to be.
Originally Posted by Niara
As an aside... the extreme vast majority of people I've interacted with over the past three years have all, more or less unanimously, reported that working remotely has been the biggest boon and improvement not only to their lifestyle, but also to their effectiveness, their efficiency and their productivity, as well as being a massive reduction in stress. They discovered that so much office time wasted in various meetings was, indeed, wasted and unnecessary, and that most of them found the idea of going back to the way it was before to be a genuinely horrific idea. In fact, the only people I've encountered who didn't find it an improvement were middle-management workers whose primary job was wrangling team members into status reports, productivity meetings and other organisational faff - they found their jobs harder to do while workers were working remotely, while those workers were swiftly discovering that said wranglers were largely unnecessary at the end of the day.
Spot on comments.
I don’t want to get stuck debating Covid, the point is more that I feel they’ve missed a huge opportunity and have delivered a poor EA experience for people that bought in.
Let’s see if they deliver a good final product. Hopefully I’m wrong but I expect based on EA it will be ok to good, but perhaps not great.
