This is great news, soon there will be no EA!
Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs
Submitted 2 weeks ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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warmaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Perfect timing and a fitting fate, considering they are now owned by blood oil kings and nazi’s
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So no change, really.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
EA died a long time ago.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It think they were talking about the undead monster one.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yet the zombie still harasses us.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe the last thing they would do is sell off the up to better firms.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would be if not all the wrong people profited from it.
YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Wouldn’t that be just the CEO, then?
arotrios@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just realized I haven’t played an EA game in over a decade. SW Battlefront II was the last one, and it felt like a downgrade from the 2005 version.
I mean, are there any of their titles that have made an impact in the last decade? I can’t think of any other than sports and racing games.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It Takes Two and Split Fiction were published by EA.
I also played Titanfall 2 which was a great little campaign.
That’s about it for me.
mudmaniac@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Once upon a time when Infinity Ward’s founders left Activision because of “Activision”, and formed Respawn with EA, I felt EA were still the good guys in the industry. The Titanfall games were amazing.
After APEX Legends came out, I feel EA used up most of their Good Karma that they had built in the past.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The Star Wars Jedi games are genuinely good self-contained no bs single player games.
I can’t comment on anything else.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Self-contained? Don’t they require a verified online account and an internet connection?
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was gonna throw Star Wars Outlaws in there, but surprisingly that one was ubisoft.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Their new owners pretty much only care about the sports games
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I got Madden last year so I could get my kid into football. Figured if there was a video game, he’d be interested in learning more about the game, and it worked. Having said that, I’m not buying any new ones for updated rosters, so they won’t be seeing another dime from me.
adhdsergio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Battlefield 6 is a new one that comes to mind - heard good things, might try it in the “perpetual demo” mode
caut_R@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was looking at that recently as well, but saw the reviews are at mixed now…
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“We’re going to have AI write all the games now” ~ some exec
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AI told me we can do it!
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re not a game company anymore. It’s getting the Toys R Us treatment. They’re a debt vehicle. They’re gonna borrow against its value, place all the debt into EA while pocketing the cash, and let it die.
If we’re lucky, they’ll sell off the studios and IP before cutting it loose.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
In this whole ordeal that has been EA … I can’t remember a single instance where they tried to do the right thing by listening to the consumer, or employees for that matter.
It’s amazing they are still around even. Die quicker pls.
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The sheer power of licensing hey
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They own the rights to madden and college game day, those two alone can keep the doors open
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Fifa games…
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
And Madden, EA Sports, it’s in the game
Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oligarchs oligarching. Every “publisher” and “developer” is firing everyone and are gonna very quickly vanish once it’s remembered that perpetual motion is impossible.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Private Equity 101, “buy” a business using borrowed money, put all the debt on the company you “bought”, slash costs, sell off assets, have the company declare bankruptcy and take all the debt with it, rince and repeat… Profit.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nobody has ever been able to explain to me why this is legal
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And as if that wasn’t an insult to the middle class, people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can borrow against their stock holdings as if they were real assets, yet never be taxed on the value. But if you borrow against the value of your house, YOU get taxed on that value.
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Well when you say it like that it just sounds dumb.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can’t wait for them to destroy it like they destroyed their golf league.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
People are still buying EA:s unfinished games? Wow.
I admit that they got me a few times, but I quickly learned not to buy from them again.
numanair@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
But what was the last time you bought a finished game? PS2?
Absolute_Slayer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I never forgot how ea destroyed battle field
crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
EA sucks ass, hopefully this is the beginning of the end.
Binturong@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
EA, it’s in the grave.
Jyrdano@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My only hope is EA dies soon and some other devs take up and resurrect ME and DA
Onyxonblack@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Honestly like why? I don’t believe either property really needs to continue. Why must everything be an IP.. those games are OLD.. the good ones at least. Let it die.
TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mass Effect was really just Bioware not wanting to pay for Star Wars again. Why not do the same and make a new Mass Effect worthy IP?
The trilogy told the story. Andromeda didnt really add much.
urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately I’m pretty sure all this will lead to now they they aren’t beholden to quarterly growth but rather can become a sustained money printer is cutting anything except the sims, modern warfare, and their sports cash cows, and recycling those every year even more than they do now, since people regularly buy those every time a new version (or in the case of the sims expansion) is released
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Someone should make a Freespace RPG. It’s the same story, but since there wasn’t a Freespace 3 they never screwed up the ending.
BC_viper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yah, i expect not to buy anymore EA games. They had a good run i guess.
LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
A good run that ended a long time ago
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
So which studios will die this time?
Kojichan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m shocked… /s
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
🤞please sell off BioWare so i can play Mass Effect again.
mriormro@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nothing’s stopping you from playing mass effect.
Why does everyone want sequels so badly? Are you all so attached to your nostalgia?
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Without more content, the franchise will die.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Found Jared Kushner.
phx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The majority of the series was great, but ME3 left a fair bit of unanswered questions at the end and Andromeda only added them.
I’d want a sequel because personally the series still feels unfinished
caut_R@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just trimming some fat (and a leg or two)
FluidBeef@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Hopefully they will combine the company with Neom so a future romantic poet finds the ruins amid the sands and wonders at the hubris of it.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Fuck yourself EA. Wouldn’t buy any more shit from you. Actually I don’t buy us-american stuff at all anymore. Except indie-games.
sobchak@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
EA is Saudi now.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t make it any better…from one slave-country to another.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’ll only make sports games, that’s the reliable cash cow.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Been playing Electronic Arts games since the 1980’s.
Even if they are a shit company, Nice knowing ya.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And nothing of real value to gamers will be lost.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Last EA game I played was Skate and that shit was free.
atro_city@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
They didn't waste any time, did they?
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trump fail son in law and journalist murderer
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Once again, the fucking suits.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I remember in the before times. When EA made decent games and we were all young, full of hope for the future, life and love were new.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Mass [Layoff] Effect
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The offices are now just a Dead Space.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Former engineers are referred to as Apex Legends.