Electronic art saves and conducts developersThe American company was supposed to reconsider its priorities after disappointment from sales of the game EA Sports WRC And decide to finish cooperation with the World Rally (WRC) championship. This led to the abolition of games and jobs.
The codemster made a brief statement about the situation, claiming that they want to focus on their key brands and the needs of players. In these changes occurred “Optimization of the team“Some developers were moved to other projects. But others had to leave the famous British studio.
Especially painful – this is the news that there are also among the released Derpot MurphyWhich has been working in Codemasters since 1999 and has been involved in games such as Colin Mcrae Rally 2.0, Toca Race Driver 3, Dirt Rally 2.0 or EA Sports WRC. For fans of racing games, this is a name that had a huge impact on the genre.
The question is how it will be with Codemasters. From the previous message from EA, we know that There was a pause of rally in the development of namesThe field behind the scenes talk about Focus exclusively on the F1 seriesThe Row of Motorsport is more attention, and real races also succeed in the United States. In EA, they can feel a chance to achieve much more players than WRC.
Electronic art contractions are located throughout the company. Bloomberg mentions up to 400 employeesMost of the field is to come from the response to cancel projects. One of them is the game from the Titanfall series.
Recall that EA bought Codemasters along with a little crazy Studis (Project Cars) in early 2021 for $ 1.2 billion.
Source :Indian TV
