The traditional 4-to-5-year console cycle that gave game developers ample time to prepare for technology changes is "gone forever" says EA CEO John Riccitiello, whose company has been reinventing itself for the digital age.
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.
I personally believe this is a good thing.
Though I think they should use the digital age to there advantage.Like burnoute where it shows you what the dlc is. or they could update the game with abit of thes sequal let you play some of it then you have to pay the price of the game for the rest
Yes EA.... Dragon Age 2 is a clear indication of how you see the new dev cycle should be.... 18 months is all we need to sell 2 million+ copies of rushed crap.
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How long before these guys come up with there own console...they are well on there way. The only problem is M$, Sony and Niny have 200 million consoles out there...O_o
The on line deal is a lot easier to implement and I expect all the big pubs to create their own on line ecosystem like Steam and now origin...cut out the middle man and hog all the profits. Next up Activision, then Ubi and THQ.
I hope Activision out bids EA on the sport licences the next time they come up...how sweet would that be.
the guy has a demented smile lol
Not for PC devs and Valve.