ECA’s Hal Halpin Expects ESA to Lose More Members in 2009
In a recent feature, Crispy Gamer named its Top 21 News Stories of 2008. Coming in at #16 was the series of member defections which plagued game publishers' trade group the ESA.
Hal Halpin, president of the Entertainment Consumers Association, commented:
I’m not sure that there’s a lot more I can add to what has already been said about the defecting companies or their impact on the [ESA] apart from that I do believe it will continue. Things have fundamentally changed in the past few years and the recession’s impact on the industry is far from over…
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