Andrew Sztein writes: "Journalists, media, and nerds of all stripes are running to and fro, parking their sizeable butts in the creaky red seats, a big blue EA logo staring us in the face from the giant screen behind the stage, while the admittedly awesome Foster the People blares on a set of overpowered speakers. The lights dim, and the conference is under way. Only five seconds in, I'm reminded about EA's Origin service. Then I'm shown reboots of Medal of Honor, Need for Speed Most Wanted, SimCity, along with sequels, and several games that are already out. Oh yeah, there seems to be some new sports division from EA, that is putting out a bunch of sports games I've never heard of."
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
Personally i think EA had the best showing today, people will bytch about DS3 being co-op but crysis looked great, Medal of honor looks lightyears ahead of CoD, the new criterion NFS looks fun, Madden is even looking good, not to mention EA aquiring UFC.
But since it cool to hate on EA no one will put them on the pedestal