Electronic art is another company that paid the price for the crisis in the video game industry. This is associated with thoughtless recruitment of people during Covid times. EA has announced a major restructuring and plans to lay off about 5% of its employees.
A year ago, EA employed 13,400 people worldwide. Thus, the reductions will affect approximately 670 from them. CEO Andrew Wilson wants to streamline the company so it can offer players a more immersive and challenging experience.
As part of the investigation, some games will be canceled and EA will abandon some licenses that it does not believe will succeed in a changing market. They want to focus on creativity, accelerate innovation and redouble their efforts to develop their brands, sports and massive online communities.. These should be the things that have the best chance of attracting players today and tomorrow.
This is interesting Respawn’s first-person Star Wars event canceled. It was supposed to be a Mandalorian bounty hunter shooter set during or shortly before the original film trilogy. So he won’t be the main character in The Mandalorian. Development was in its early stages and was led by Peter Hirschmann, who previously worked at LucasArts, working on the original Battlefront and The Force Unleashed games and co-creating Medal of Honor.
At Respawn, they will be completely focused on the Star Wars Jedi series and new experiences in Apex Legends.. It looks like most of the team that worked on Star Wars FPS will be transferred to other projects. Despite these changes, EA wants to continue its partnership with Disney. projects remain in development Black Panther And iron Man. Let us remember that in September/September last year, Stig Asmussen announced his departure from Respawn, he led the development of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
What’s missing is the studio Ridgeline Games, founded in 2022. Co-founder Markus Lehto recently left. The creator of Halo and other industry veterans were responsible for the story campaign of the future Battlefield. But EA is closing the studio and will now oversee the single-player Battlefield game Criterion Games. Some Ridgeline Games employees will enrich the team The ripple effect (formerly DICE Los Angeles), where multiplayer capabilities for the new Battlefield are being developed. So they will have to move from Seattle to California.
Source :Indian TV
