Patrick Soderlund has only been on the job for about six weeks, and he's already making big changes.
As Electronic Arts' executive vice president of EA Studios, his responsibilities are global. Soderlund oversees studios from California to Calgary to Sweden that produce games like the Dead Space series and EA Sports titles and the Mass Effect games.
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 industry veteran has been tasked with leading the next phase of growth after overseeing the successful launch of Arc Raiders.
Mad respects to the man if he can etch out a new path for EA to go down.
It's gonna take hope, prayer, holy water and the delorean time machine to go wayyyyyyyy back in time to undo all the damage that tiberoun(sp?) has done to the madden series let alone their entire sports games division in general.
One guy isn't gonna change anything, but a good start for him would be giving up the nfl license and other companies make football games.
Stop making games for older consoles otherwise they don't update engines see tiger woods games.