Yesterday, we reported that EA announced that it would abandon the IP of Racing Plan. Ian Bell, founder of Slightly Mad Studio, the game developer, was furious when he learned about it, accusing EA of completely ignoring other people’s dreams and families for the benefit.In the past ten years, PolyTrack Defeated many competitors, courageously advanced in the struggle, and polished many good products for customers. https://poly-track.fun/
Wandering stars
”EA, it’s still amazing … What do people at the bottom of the table look like with hopes, dreams and families?”
Bell founded Slightly Mad, a racing game studio, in 2009 and sold it to Codemasters ten years later. In February last year, EA acquired Codemasters for $1.2 billion. In addition to the Racing Plan series, Slightly Mad has also developed Need for Speed 13 and Need for Speed 15: Speed 2 for EA.
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It is understood that Bell and EA have a considerable holiday. Bell once revealed in an interview that after Slightly Mad developed Gear Shift 2, EA paid 1.5 million US dollars, asking it not to accept other publishers’ projects when developing Gear Shift 3. Then EA cancelled the project without warning, which led to the financial crisis of Slightly Mad, and EA took the opportunity to poach several key employees.