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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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

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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

www.gamesradar.com

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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The Battlefield and Sims owner has taken on $20 billion in debt by going private
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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They’ll only make sports games, that’s the reliable cash cow.

  • MBech@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    So which studios will die this time?

    • Kojichan@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      All.

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Last EA game I played was Skate and that shit was free.

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    2 months 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
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      2 months ago

      The sheer power of licensing hey

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Fifa games…

      • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        And Madden, EA Sports, it’s in the game

    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      They own the rights to madden and college game day, those two alone can keep the doors open

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The Mass [Layoff] Effect

    • nullspace@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The offices are now just a Dead Space.

      • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Former engineers are referred to as Apex Legends.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is great news, soon there will be no EA!

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe the last thing they would do is sell off the up to better firms.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Perfect timing and a fitting fate, considering they are now owned by blood oil kings and nazi’s

      • nullspace@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        So no change, really.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It would be if not all the wrong people profited from it.

    • Strider@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      EA died a long time ago.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        It think they were talking about the undead monster one.

        • Strider@lemmy.world
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          I know, I know and everyone defines a different time when it happened. But it’s time for the zombie to… leave.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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        Yet the zombie still harasses us.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    They didn’t waste any time, did they?

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m shocked… /s

  • caut_R@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Just trimming some fat (and a leg or two)

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
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    “We’re going to have AI write all the games now”
    ~ some exec

    • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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      AI told me we can do it!

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      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.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    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
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      But what was the last time you bought a finished game? PS2?

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      The sports games keep the lights on.

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        Sims is also an absolute juggernaut in very different circles from Madden and FIFA

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    My only hope is EA dies soon and some other devs take up and resurrect ME and DA

    • urushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moe
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      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

    • Onyxonblack@piefed.socialBanned
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      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
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        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.

        • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
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          Yea, there’s still so much to that universe besides the whole bad guy ending the galaxy stick.

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    Trump fail son in law and journalist murderer

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    Can’t wait for them to destroy it like they destroyed their golf league.

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    Yah, i expect not to buy anymore EA games. They had a good run i guess.

    Mind you I haven’t played many anyway lately.

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      A good run that ended a long time ago

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        At least 25 years ago.

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