[gekko]

Actually they can make a difference. It's called small business. While EA may be trying for a monopoly, they get their employees from the same pool as everybody else. If the game developers aren't happy with what's going on, they slowly start to go away and do their own thing. Look how many gaming studios have been started after a few lead programmers broke away and created their own?

You don't think this stuff makes a difference, but how involved are you with the game development community? This is the same reason people fled to open source, and look at where that's at. the same thing happened in the web development community, and now there's more people than ever sticking to standards and open-source languages because they grew sick of playing Microsoft's game.

If game developers bitch to other game developers and they all agree on the same things, changes will be made, they have to, or they will lose their best employees.