Ashes Cricket General Discussion

[master110]

Obviously they were all trolls from here!

"Bully CEO. Low pay, no pay raises."
StarStarStarStarStar
Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook

I worked at Big Ant Studios full-time

Pros

The other people that work there

Cons

Went 1 - 2 months without being paid regularly. CEO bullies staff. Toxic work place.

Advice to Management

No need to give advice, lands on death ears.




LMAO this is what I call got fired and cried.

 

[jabbathehut]

Maybe, but you can believe money is tight as there in no way for them to make extra income once the games are sold and how many copies of ashes cricket are they selling at this point or any of their games for that matter.I would also imagine a gap between sales and them actually getting the money as well.An easy example how much would they be able to make from a properly made ipl dlc but they are just not big enough or have a good enough product to negotiate with the ipl people.

 

[Mitchell]

basically they are a small company and try to get by.see below

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Big-Ant-Studios-EI_IE382067.11,26.htm

confirms our worse suspicions.Think we are lucky to get a patch at all.

If that is true that outrageous

 

[Nathaus]

"Bully CEO. Low pay, no pay raises."
StarStarStarStarStar
Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook

I worked at Big Ant Studios full-time

Pros

The other people that work there

Cons

Went 1 - 2 months without being paid regularly. CEO bullies staff. Toxic work place.

Advice to Management

No need to give advice, lands on death ears.




LMAO this is what I call got fired and cried.

If you're going to post that in a public forum, at least have the balls to put your name to it.

IMO someone that doesn't know the difference between death ears and deaf ears wouldn't be working for me long either :P (too harsh?)

 

[TheRealThing]

As pointed out by Dave before

BigAntStudios said: ↑
Both Consoles / PC will all receive the most generous support any Big Ant Studios game has ever received, I say that unequivocally, we have priced the ongoing support into the purchase, we don't have loot boxes, ultimate team, micro transactions or any other intentions to monetise this game.

Like Dave, do I think that has been met ? No. Not even close.

My personal opinion as to why ? AO Tennis turned out to be more then they could chew and to get that up to scratch, we paid the price. Not sure why the old loyal customers paid the price ahead of the new customer base but as a CEO of a company, it's all about the $.

 

[andrew36]

Will there be any feedback from beta testers or any patch notes or more videos
Will there be any improvement to players appearance or skin tones

 

[backfootdrive]

Gona wait for the patch, if its not up to scratch then i wont be returning to buy their next installment of the cricket franchise.

 

[Mr Snrub]

What did i miss. Is BA a charity organization running under the slogan "bug free cricket games for homeless gamers"

What you've missed is that the company has made an undertaking to potential paying customers leading in to release time. An undertaking which has not realistically been fulfilled at this point in time. You've missed that whilst you've been insulting people calling them "homeless gamers" and asking if BA is a charity organization.

 

[Kass D]

What you've missed is that the company has made an undertaking to potential paying customers leading in to release time. An undertaking which has not realistically been fulfilled at this point in time. You've missed that whilst you've been insulting people calling them "homeless gamers" and asking if BA is a charity organization.

Can i have the post where rose said there will be patches ever other month. You people just dont know how businesses need to run. They are a game developer. They have to keep developing games to function as a company. Some of you probovly think they should just release one cricket game and dedicate their resources for a year to it. Maybe walk dogs to make little money on their lunch break. They have already announced patch is coming out on 26th. And your still going on and on about how bad BA is. Dont complain about everything just for the sake of complaining

 

[Mitchell]

Can one of the beta lads plz tell me if the nights games issue has been fixed.

 

[Mr Snrub]

Can i have the post where rose said there will be patches ever other month.

You're talking complete nonsense, at no point did anyone mention "every other month".

You people just dont know how businesses need to run.

On the contrary, I am someone who knows how to run a business.

Some of you probovly think they should just release one cricket game and dedicate their resources for a year to it.

We probably think that do we? Wrong. Don't guess what others think, take their actual quotes, it works out better.

And your still going on and on about how bad BA is. Dont complain about everything just for the sake of complaining

I'm not going on and on about how bad BA is, you're wrong again. I've been on this forum for years and many, many times stated views in praise of the things Big Ant have gotten right. There's actually a long list of things. I don't believe they've lived up to what they stated prior to release about patches and support, I've stated that and you've been constantly responding, causing me to have to defend my stance.

I note you haven't responded about your insulting behaviour regarding calling people "homeless gamers".

 

[Spoobir]

Again, don't know why people are saying Big Ant didn't support the game as much as promised due to business/financial reasons. We know directly from Honest Ross himself it was all down to the lack of Rapid Patching™.

Totally out of their hands!

 

[Kass D]

I note you haven't responded about your insulting behaviour regarding calling people "homeless gamers".

If you dont get sarcasm its not my foult is it. People who can read my post clearly say i was making a point. I dont play the insult game. Its counter productive. Bottom line, just wait for 15days . What if this patch makes the game incredibly good. Wouldn't that be worth the wait. If its not, its just a game. No big deal

 

[Nathaus]

Can one of the beta lads plz tell me if the nights games issue has been fixed.

They aren't testing PS4 so I doubt they can give you an answer

 

[Pat]

They aren't testing PS4 so I doubt they can give you an answer

Well, it was confirmed to be an issue on PC too. That there were frame-rate issues on night matches (especially when batting in close cam). So it would be good if @grkrama or someone in beta can confirm if there have been any changes on this front.