One of the most successful game development studios of the 90's, Bullfrog Productions, has faded slowly into obscurity a few years after it was acquired by EA in 1995. Theme Park and Dungeon Keeper fans are still feeling the bitterness to this day, but the studio co-founder Peter Molyneux assures that EA had nothing but good intentions.
"EA is not an evil empire," he said. "They're a company that have done a great deal for this industry. [But] when corporates buy companies, several things change. You've got this problem where the founders of the company get a lot of money -- that changes those people. That changes the company there."
"You've got the problem of what I call 'love abuse,'" he added. "When EA bought Bullfrog, they just wanted to make it nicer. They moved us to a nice office, where we couldn't shoot each other [with BB guns] in the corridors. We had an HR department because that was a nice proper professional thing to do. And that changes the flavor of the company."
