'When Star Wars Battlefront was announced at E3 last year the excitement reached absolute fever pitch. The return of a beloved video game series affiliated with one of the world’s most adored media franchises set the internet alight with excitement. Unfortunately since the reveal EA has slowly released details that have not only questioned the direction of the series but also whether this new game can actually be considered a Battlefront title at all.'
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.
No, it's going to be a huge success.
DICE sells approximately 15M per game they release with BF, the movie is releasing very close to release which will just create alot of hype and awareness, it's one the first big current gen only FPS of this gen and it's being pushed with the PS4 for the holiday season.
People I know who are casual gamer already know about this game, regardless of all the internet concern this will be a huge success.
I think people are damning this game way too early, we will see more of it at E3. The double edged sword is if you make a game the way it was before, you're just reskining. If you develop it from a different angle you're screwing it up.
The game will sell, but it will also be fun if you allow it to be and not try to bash it at every turn.
Rolling the DI...oh I see what you did there.
Clever clever!
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