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EA laying off around 670 as it moves away from future licensed IP to double down on owned IP, sports, and online communities
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1. This sucks, another fucking layoff story within the last 24 hours
2. I wonder if this means something's gone wrong with the Iron Man game we know of. We haven't heard anything about that untitled Marvel game from EA so..
2. I wonder if this means something's gone wrong with the Iron Man game we know of. We haven't heard anything about that untitled Marvel game from EA so..
They mentioned the current licensed games are not affected apparently.
Maybe besides Respawn continuing to do SW, the Marvel games will basically be it from them? These are the kinds of things that can change if the money is too tempting though.
It's the last week of the month. Last week of next month is gonna be even worse because it's the end of the fiscal year.
This feels like a horrible recurring bad joke that just keeps getting repeated. I cannot believe the state of big publishers right now. What the fuck.
Bummer.
Even if everything is going great, if the conditions are similar to the one's for Spider-Man 2, that IP is not cheap at all.
The is fucking disgusting. And these people couldn't be part of your new future? Eat my ass.
Also, them saying to double down on sports games is fucking laughable. They are as cheap as they come when it comes to sports games.
So basically fuck EA for this and the loss of jobs and fuck EA because they're full of shit.
Also, them saying to double down on sports games is fucking laughable. They are as cheap as they come when it comes to sports games.
So basically fuck EA for this and the loss of jobs and fuck EA because they're full of shit.
Fucking hell. This continues to suck :(
Unless they mean in creativity and innovation on how to squeeze very single dime of a customer
That is what they meant
Unless they mean in creativity and innovation on how to squeeze very single dime of a customer
That is what they meant
Jfc this fucking sucks. I wonder if the Star Wars games at Respawn were affected. Or there was more stuff besides those, Black Panther and Iron Man?
Moves away from future licensed games, but like 90% of your games are that, like are they just not going to pick up more or slowly move on from overly relying on them outside of sports games, where they have no choice but to.
Your best games have been Star Wars and your backing away from that? Why!? Also, the sims 4 now has a big ad button in the game itself if people are wondering...
So they're doing Iron Man, Black Panther and the Star Wars games currently in the works (Jedi 3, Mando FPS, strategy game) and then stopping licensed games?
Hopefully this means Motive will do Dead Space 2 remake after Iron Man.
I imagine the rationale here is to save money on the licensing fees.
Hopefully this means Motive will do Dead Space 2 remake after Iron Man.
I imagine the rationale here is to save money on the licensing fees.
Having to regularly show profit increases to investors by having massive layoffs is just the norm now it seems
Seeing the insomniac terms I'm wondering how much Disney is trying to extract from these deals. They may be asking for too high a price / sales commitment
At this point, what company is even left to have massive layoffs? Ubisoft?
Disgusting stuff from all of these execs. None of them will suffer but the workers they enticed to change their entire life for them will.
Disgusting stuff from all of these execs. None of them will suffer but the workers they enticed to change their entire life for them will.
Disney licensing fees ain't a joke. All these companies are trying to build their own IPs to exploit for free.
it makes sense to try and grow your own stable of bankable IP but EA has dropped the ball so hard in this regard. Almost all of their big games are reliant on licenses. Obviously with stuff like EA FC or Madden this is impossible to get around, but they've let so much internal IP just sort of rot away like Mass Effect or Dragon Age. Could be too little too late unless some stuff hits.
I have to wonder how profitable the Star Wars license is for them. If it's anything like Spiderman you're paying a big fee just to use the license. Could that money better be spent on IP you can own and monetize to your liking.
Imo the industry is in recession but no one is saying it openly for fear of spooking investors and creating a bear run on stock prices
As I said before, the gaming job market is going to be extremely competitive with all these now unemployed game devs, it's going to be rough for those affected unfortunately
Yeah, imagine studying game dev right now...The job prospects must be awful. I almost did it, but ultimately I decided to go for Computer Science because it was more generalist. I'm grateful
I mean you can only have so many layoffs until investors stop thinking "Short term profit! Yay" and start reading between the lines
