EA Louse story continues; Jeff Preston stands up for friends at EA

Yesterday I posted that story of "EA Louse", a person at Mythic that was getting laid off in November, who was now releasing "information" about the culture at EA/BioWare/Mythic, how terrible Warhammer Online is and how bad Knights of the Old Republic will be when it's released.

Well, Jeff Preston who does Art and Design in the gaming industry, but not for EA, Mythic or BioWare came to the defense of the people/projects who were flamed yesterday.  Here is a summary:

In summary, in counter to the woefully biased, slanted and in some cases inaccurate rants of EA Louse I offer a counter from the other side. Admittedly biased as these three people, Jeff, Paul and Kate are my friends. From THIS side of the wall of anonymity I KNOW how hard they work at keeping EA Mythic alive and breathing, to keep seats filled.

Does that make me a corporate shill? I work in this industry. I understand the purpose of a business is to make money. I understand compromise. I understand that sometimes there is too much oversight, sometimes too little. People make fucked up decisions, and their vision doesn’t jive with others. Doesn’t make it ok, but it happens. Fix it and move on. Do the best you can and making the whole thing work for as many as possible. I can speak with absolute certainty that Jeff Hickman, Paul Barnett and Kate Flack have been and still are top shelf when it comes to putting together a quality product and keeping everyone employed, and that is the best anyone can hope for as an employee.

You can read Jeff's full response HERE.  This whole thing is kinda "he said, she said" crap, but for some reason, it's kinda entertaining to read.  Maybe I should make a wordpress account and post my thoughts also.  Hmmmm....