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EA to lay off 5% of workforce, or about 670 employees
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DeaDPo0L84
Member
If any of these layoffs concern DEI clubs within the company than that is only a positive.
MayauMiao
Member
Why? Its EA.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Pretty much. Who are the people being laid off?
We never hear much on this. Show me their twitter accounts. Then we can be upset, or not.
Sushi_Combo
Member
Not everybody wants to air out their dirty laundry on social media. I assume most want to deal with it privately.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
I get that, but that is quite a few people, and we're not hearing from, or about, any of them
It's all a bit odd.
ResilientBanana
Member
The people aren’t.
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
Crashing this industry... with no survivors
Deerock71
Member
FunkMiller
Gold Member
It’s a shame EA are so hard up for cash. A real tragedy there’s no one who could do something about it.
balls of snow
Member
The biggest hurdle for mass effect is dragon age. And the biggest hurdle of dragon age is being compared to the best of the best rpgs like Baldurs Gate 3. Its dead Jim.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
This better not fuck with Dragon Age: Dreadwolf or Mass Effect 5.
You don’t have those kind of layoffs in Europe, not at this scale
Nydius
Member
I honestly wish they'd kill it and I say that as probably one of the biggest ME fanboys around here.
Let's be honest with ourselves. After Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem, BioWare is a shell of itself. Anyone hoping the new Mass Effect game will be anything close to the quality of the original trilogy is setting themselves up for disappointment, no matter how many OG characters they dust off for it. The vast majority of the people behind the success of the original trilogy are long gone.
I'd rather keep the fond memories of what we had with the original trilogy and Legendary Edition release than have the legacy of the entire trilogy tainted by a direct sequel that half asses it and retcons things that made the series special.
The original trilogy was lightning in a bottle.
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diffusionx
Gold Member
This is the first time I heard of someone looking forward to Dragon Age: Deadname
Those games are going to be TRASH
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darrylgorn
Member
We are reaching our creative limits.
Last third/quarter of a fiscal year so it gives them time to start the next one off on a better footing.
If I'm not mistaken EA is reporting profits? doing reasonably well? so are these cuts to reach executive bonuses or give share holders a slightly higher return on investment? I really don't get it, I don't understand. Company makes money, lays off people. Insomniac prints money with Spider-man, lays off people.
EA lays off people and cancels a new star wars game. Didn't Jedi Fallen order do well? Don't those Soccer loot boxes or Madden keep the entire company afloat?
Should I feel as disgusted and disheartned, or am I missing something from business 101.
Maybe Konami has the right idea.
EA lays off people and cancels a new star wars game. Didn't Jedi Fallen order do well? Don't those Soccer loot boxes or Madden keep the entire company afloat?
Should I feel as disgusted and disheartned, or am I missing something from business 101.
Maybe Konami has the right idea.
Portugeezer
Member
All these laid off people could start a new publisher to compete with EA, Activision, etc.
BobLeeSwagger
Member
Is that profit really worth it if twice that amount goes into development for the next year?
Shareholders/Investors are looking for returns, not keep cycling their money back and more into games. Someone has to the pay the bills and it isn’t the studios not making huge returns on their games.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Oh man not good news to hear about more layoffs. This sucks.
Porcile
Member
No because they actually need people to make games and Japanese game industry salaries are like half of what game devs in the US and UK make not even taking exchange rates into account.
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I get that large companies protect profits over people’s reliances on paychecks. I get that sometimes people need to be let go for various reasons that aren‘t icky at all. But I find suggestions about cuts for the fans or audience benefit to be gross.
Anyway, I hope these companies are putting real thought into who is getting let go. If they’re just looking at numbers and letting the best people go things might get worse.
Anyway, I hope these companies are putting real thought into who is getting let go. If they’re just looking at numbers and letting the best people go things might get worse.
IAmRei
Member
We can called it conspiracy, but i think yes, but only guts. Dont have any proof tho...
IAmRei
Member
Nah, for me, japanese games still quite fine, if not better. And they pumped more great outputs lately.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Yeah, whilst the Japanese games are still so good I'll continue to play games. They're on the ball this gen and presumably this carries on into next generation.
Beyond that maybe the kinds of traditional games Japanese devs make begin to lose popularity as current kids raised on GAAS feed into the market. If that happens then I'll retire the hobby. But we'd have like 40-50 years game library to play anyway so it would be fine.
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Cyberpunkd
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No, but all companies use other companies as an excuse to bury the news of their own failings. It works the same with chasing trends - “look, everyone is doing it, we can’t afford to sit this one out”. Then when it fails: “hey, everyone was the same, nobody is to blame”.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Yup.
Thats the old strength in numbers tactic. No different than protestors clogging streets. If one person does it, everyone notices what that person is doing. When it's a mob of 100 or 1000 it's impossible to track everyone. Blend in and there's chance you'll be ignored. The more people who join in, then it must be true.
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Pop
Member
Oh ya for sure...NeoGAF: "Companies need to make cheaper games, so they don't have to sell 20m units to break even"
Companies: "OK, to do that we'll need to lay some people off"
NeoGAF: ""
Varteras
Gold Member
I was questioning their future before this happened.
Killjoy-NL
Member
Nah, Herman Hulst.
IAmRei
Member
And also surprising and randomly fan translation appears from nowhere usually in few years. I often see what romhack done, so i can see the finished translations. Sometimes i can find gold there.
Horseganador
Member
It is a multi company so there will be little comment on these layoffs, if it cannot be used for the console wars it seems that it does not matter.
Dazraell
Member
Not only BG3, but Witcher 4 is also around the corner and depending when they're aiming to release Dragon Age 4 and when CDPR will release their game, BioWare may have yet another competition at hand
Team Andromeda
Member
This is all nothing new. I remember in 2002 people saying the games industry couldn't go on like it is and would crash in 2003. Layoffs have always been part of the games industry like long hours
CamHostage
Member
Yeah, weird, the Star Wars news officially came out immediately, but no word on the Marvel games. (Both of those Marvel games have been officially announced, whereas the Star Wars FPS was not, also Respawn has other games to pivot to while Motive and Cliffhanger Games are likely pot-committed. But it's a big question remaining to be answered...)