Electronic Arts reorganizes, fires 350 employees
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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
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.
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
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.
H83
I think you have just summed up 90% of the gaming industry of today...
schmidtbag
Nah there's plenty of great stuff out there. There's more to gaming than AAA titles from EA, Ubisoft, Activision/Blizzard, and now apparently Bethesda. Some publishers like WB, Rockstar, and Square Enix pull some of the same stuff as EA but they're not anywhere near as bad about it and they seem to be a bit more responsive to negative backlash.
fantaskarsef
EA sees BF5 not perform as they like. Low level employees get fired while top managers get a bonus.
Where are the times of torches and pitchforks in the hands of us common folk...
The Laughing Ma
It's weird how they haven't update that tag line. I guess 'it's going to be in the game at some point in the future accorrding to our long term road map as a paid for DLC or random chance microtransaction lootbox' doesn't quite have the same catchy ring to it?
Neo Cyrus
EA are Ghengis Khan reincarnated as a game publisher.
MonstroMart
To be fair the last time i bought an AAA title for the full price was Witcher 3. I enjoy indie games a lot so i usually wait for a price drop to buy AAA titles. Most of them are not worth the full price anyway. I was close to buy either the last BF or The Division 2 but then i tried the pre-release of The Division 2 and while it's okay it's certainly not worth 80$ CAD. Most people i played BF 1942 or BF 2 with tell me the last one while not bad is not worth it.
So i'll keep buying indie games for 20 to 40$ CAD. Sorry EA and Ubi but they are as fun as your games and they cost between half to a quarter of what you ask.
0blivious
It's been a bad year to be in game development.
