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Casual-game developer PopCap, creator of classic time-wasters such as Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and dozens of others, has completed their previously announced corporate downsizing plan by laying off 96 employees in Dublin, Ireland, according to Games Radar. An official statement from the company states that “PopCap has provided outplacement support and many employees have offers in other parts of PopCap, at EA or new opportunities with technology partners in Ireland.” The successful developer was purchased in 2011 by Electronic Arts for approximately $750 million. Fifty jobs were also eliminated in PopCap’s Seattle offices earlier this year.
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Take a great little developer, get purchased by a faceless Borg entity, and the great little developer gets wiped out. I can’t understand what the endgame is for EA. Sure they get the names and licenses, but the raw talent and culture that created them is gone. Goose. Golden Egg. By all means, buy the goose, but why then kill it … why not just let the eggs keep coming. Dumb. EA. Dumb.
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