>"Richard", they told me, "your release of games is extremely unreliable". They wanted us to change our development process to meet their deadlines. The game we

>"Richard", they told me, "your release of games is extremely unreliable". They wanted us to change our development process to meet their deadlines. The game we were developing when we sold Origin* was Ultima VIII; EA wanted it on the shelves in time for the following Christmas.* versus >Yet the actual EA executives in question have vociferously denied micromanaging the project, insisting on the contrary that it was conceived, created, and finally shipped on terms dictated by no one outside of Origin. Someone is lying. Either a new deadline was imposed on an existing project by EA executives or it wasn't.