Always fun to develop a record-selling game. You lose your job as a thanks! 🤮
Yet Another common EA L
We produced a record-profit making game and we couldn’t have done it with out you. Now get out and pick up your severance check on the way.
I wish we could band together and create a company not with the motive of profit for shareholders, but with the motive of wages for employees.
What if the goal was to hire and pay as many people as much as possible, all while creating something really neat.
How do we start this?
They are called co-ops. Capitalism is fundamentally broken broken, so your idea will not work at larger scales under the current system
Yeh I’m aware of employee owned and co-cooperatively owned companies, but in my experience those are often used as marketing buzzwords.
I think video game development could actually be a space where this could work, but with the saturation of indie and low effort games, a golden opportunity may have already passed.
Like some else already said co-ops and employee owned businesses. But they all require capital to start, maybe a bank could give you a business loan.
Maybe a government program that doesn’t have a profit motive like the post office?
Step 1: Wake up
Step 2: Realize that people have never been okay with the idea of paying more, they only like to talk about making more (somehow, magically). I feel like rising prices are actually the only thing that can bring down Trump and MAGA, that’s how much people hate it
How exactly and why do you expect people to simply pay more for games so that few people could make more money, likely in a different country? I just don’t see market working like that.
Besides, how would you even start this without investors? Creating a product takes a long time, and you want to pay high wages while the company makes nothing?
Yeah those are great points to consider.
I hope you have a good day.
That’s not good from a player standpoint that seems to suggest that there isn’t going to be any updates which is probably why they went the CCG route.
“Congratulations and fuck you !” EA probably.
Time for everyone else at EA to unionize
Just punishment for making another FPS for a major corporation. Why they expect anything different at this point baffles me
people just shouldnt work for ea at all. Even if you do good job you still lose your job.
“So long and thanks for all the crunch!” - Average EA executive
I want to thank you all for making this great game that put us on top last year, but as we’re already 3 months in 2026, our management have no clue how to drive this success into bigger one so we went for easy profit. I think we all agree that EA is great company that deserves more this year and sometimes more is less. I wish you all best of luck in looking for next job. Let’s make EA great again.
EA makes the best games when the executives get out of the way. Some developers took all of the assets that they had from Battlefront 2 (which was a gorgeous piece of crap) and made one of the best Star Wars flight sims I’ve ever seen.
EA new logo is “pay everything”
Enshittify Anything
Anyone who gives EA money is an absolute moron and is part of the problem.
The problem is, they serve the audience garmer non gamer: all sports simulation like: FIFA, NBA, NHL, Madden etc are with them and then games like Battlefield. I know a bunch of people that play these games, but don’t consider themselves as gamers and give 0 fucks how the industrie is doimg.
The normies are always the issue
I think at this stage it’s children who are easily impressionable and using their parent’s credit cards to buy EA games, is the company’s customer base. EA hasn’t produced a good game for a long awhile. Battlefield games had been the only games I played much before 2020, but since then I stopped caring about EA.
Nah, plenty of grown ass adults who don’t care, don’t notice or think this counts as progress
I’ll admit I still give them money as they have a few of my favorite franchises I grew up with, ME Dragon age, Dead Space.
And these are all turning to shit, besides Dead Space. That was great.
That’s how they keep wages low. After the crunch, they fire anyone they might have to give a raise to. Next game they hire a bunch of new grunts for next to nothing and repeat.
I’ve had a personal boycott against EA (and Ubisoft, Activision, etc) for over 10 years now and time and time again I get reminded how good of an idea it was.
Also helped by the fact that EA titles are like $100 now and I’d much rather burn that money for a few minutes of heat than give it to the criminals at EA.
Also helped by the fact that EA games just aren’t that good. Easiest boycott of my life
And if you absolutely must play one of their games, buy used console games, with the added bonus of keeping their kernel anti cheat shit off your PC.
EA just doing what it’s always done… Got it.
That’s always been their practice, use up a team until they don’t think they’ll get anything more from them, then shutter them. You don’t go to work for EA for the job security. You work for them because you need a stepping stone…
…Or they bought your studio.
These layoffs come just months after the unexpected death of Battlefield franchise head Vince Zampella in a car accident. They also come as EA is preparing to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for approximately $55 billion.
Oh is this one of Mr. Bonesaw’s ventures, or a different thing?
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AIEdit: this was a bad call by me, it turns out everything appears to be accurate. I just was making assumptions based off of outdated informationYou would think that I would do some basic fact checking…
I missed when Vince Z went from Respawn to Dice LA. I retract my claims of AI
Granted, you probably don’t have the IGN budget for it
