Baird Equity Research claims their research indicates that The Old Republic has 350,000 concurrent users across 215 servers worlwide.
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.
Makes me wonder how many are waiting in queues lol.
i never been in q....i picked a good server!
I play on Corrilian Run and im almost always in Q. Sometimes the 300th in line. All my mates got early access and it was one of the earliest servers.
i always make the mistake of buying an mmo right at launch, and while the game is quite polished and runs beautiful, it feels kind of hollow.
i'm sure people will disagree with me and that is ok, but World of Warcraft is a 10x better game, the world is more cohesive, the art style and vistas are better, the ui customization is non-existant in ToR, in wow you can fix everything, i HATE where the chat window is in ToR.
Plus, though the voice acting is good, it is unrealistic and phony and adds to that hollow feeling, the way the mobs just sit there in place, it is lacking a certain "organicness"
thats just me, i will not sub and have cancelled, i might grind out a few more hours and then pick up again in 6 months and see if they have made it more cohesive.
though many of the things i said were negitive, i give ea/bioware big credit for pulling off a smooth launch, as soon as i got the game i was up and playing at 60 frames per second maxed out, the friend thing worked and i personally never waite3d in a 'q'
but again, it feels like i am in oz, and there are beautiful things to see, and strange mysteries all around, but i can see the wizard behind the curtain in his underwear smoking a crack pipe, the beauty of the place is killed for me by the obviousness of the charade.