The authors of Angry Birds hired Jamie Laes, a former vice president of EA Playfish, as vice president of games. His predecessor, in turn, announced that he was leaving the company.
For Jami Laes, everything coincided quite successfully. A month ago, EA started making massive cuts, which Playfish also fell under. According to rumors, the studio was completely dissolved, but EA itself refuses to talk about its current status. In general, Jami didn’t stay out of work for long. Yes, before working at Playfish, he was also the vice president of Digital Chocolate.
Jami LaesaThis is not bad for Rovio, which has no experience in developing free-to-play builders.
However, how justified it is to hire a manager whose games are going to be closed this June due to a significant drop in the number of users is another question.
Petri JarvilehtoAs for Petri Järvilehto, after the failure of The Croods, his departure from the post of vice president of Rovio and from the company in general looks like a logical decision.