Electronic Arts reorganizes, fires 350 employees
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sverek
EA bad, give likes.
cryohellinc
EA bashing? There's a good lad, here, have a Like!
Phill-7
He should resign himself. And take Bioware with him too. 😡
Loobyluggs
Just after GDC...funny (not) that it wasn't just before GDC they made the announcement
Petr V
Where are dat times i played Need for Speed 2 and EA was so popular?
Still remember dat knockouts and Holywood finals.
Moofachuka
They already saving up for CFO's next bonus.
ViperAnaf
Not surprising after that piece of crap called Anthem
Yogi
Sounds like their upper management could do with some "reorganising"
JOHN30011887
Too many bad games from EA, so no wonder there firing people, im curious to see what they do to Need for Speed, my guess is it wont be good
rl66
Every review said it's a so/so game, not bad but not good either... But everyone i know that have get it, regret to have spended money for it....
I guess it will not be in the hall of fame from this company.
But it is very sad for the 350 one, and sad to see EA in this path.
H83
The ones being fired should be the higher ups, killing franchises left and right...
Undying
This is not going to end up well for EA.
StevieSleep
Gotta say here. I think it's a good thing. Publishing became easy as sin with digital downloads, and any cuts to marketing are definitely a good thing for an industry that prides its-self on spending as much money on marketing as it does on game development.
When you have to go against that ratio it's no wonder games keep missing sales targets. When you have a good product you don't need marketing and when you need that much marketing.
I can't wait for cyberpunk to be released, or bloodlines 2 and all they needed to do is release some trailers. I knew I wanted to buy cuphead the moment I saw it. Compare this to battlefield which no matter what, after so many iterations i can't be anything more than lukewarm.
vbetts
Moderator
I wouldn't even say bad games, I would say bad decisions. The Star Wars series could have been 100x better, if they didn't do the whole lootbox and grind crap. Sims 4 is super fun, but pretty much every aspect of the game that makes it complete are behind pay walls that are just wayyyyy too much, and Anthem just kind of feels incomplete...
Ricepudding
That's the issue with the Sims, sim3 has over £300 worth of DLC, that's far too much. and just getting the base game always feels incomplete... most of their games in recent years have felt like this.... Even the newest dragon age you had to get the DLC to get the true ending. I don't even wanna touch what they have done to star wars as a whole, the battlefront series was one of my favourite games growing up and they just crushed it into nothing 🙁 they worry so much about DLC and getting you to pay for loot boxes that they seem to just take from the base game leaving it a husk. Then you have games like God of war (2018) where its just a base game, no season pass, no dlc just a pure experience with nothing taken.
I wanna have high hopes for the fallen jedi, but at this rate i can't see it being good
airbud7
It's in the game!
schmidtbag
Putting aside MTs and major glitches shortly after the release date, most of EA's games lately are like the movie Avatar: not bad but nothing especially memorable or good; just better-than-average visuals and audio with a fun but un-inspiring gameplay or story.
EA doesn't understand what makes a game sell well. They see trends and try to replicate them, not realizing that copying what everyone else (including themselves) have done doesn't mean you're making something people are currently looking for. Then, they basically shoot themselves in the foot by making their already expensive games pay-[extra]-to-win.
TheDeeGee
"Challenge everything!"
JamesSneed
How I feel as well. They have lost sight of making great games first even know they have great developers from some really great development studios like Dice. You make a great game that has replayability you will make 100's of millions if not billions. This goes for all business, you make a great product the money tends to take care of itself. You focus on making money first you usually don't make as much money because you end up making an inferior product.
Take the Battlefield series. That game was so damn fun back in the BF2 days even with all its flaws like frag spamming. There latest iteration of Battlefield V is really pretty graphically but I find it boring and disconnected feeling which the lack of immersion makes me not want to play it. Since around BF3 the gameplay keeps getting worse as the game gets better and better graphics. They really need to stop this trend which doesn't seem like it is only the battlefield series this is happening with.
Fox2232
No reason to keep marketing division which can't make extra sales of bad game.
Maybe next time they hire additional 350 good developers and make better game.
