EA’s Battlefield Studios Group Hit by Layoffs as A part of “Realignment”

EA has laid off various workers throughout its Battlefield studio group, based on a brand new report, and the corporate’s justification for doing so is strictly the form of hole company assertion you’d anticipate.

In line with IGN, an unknown variety of workers have misplaced their jobs throughout studios together with DICE, Motive, Criterion, and Ripple Impact, and the layoffs have apparently affected staffers throughout varied departments and places of work.

In an announcement given to IGN, an EA spokesperson says the layoffs are a part of “choose modifications” EA is making to its Battlefield studios “to higher align [its] groups round what issues most to [its] neighborhood”. As soon as once more, an enormous company hides behind “realignment” when chopping employees.

Battlefield 6 received off to a really sturdy begin final yr, incomes itself seven million gross sales inside its first week and turning into the best-selling recreation throughout all codecs within the month of its launch.

Since then, although, opinions and participant counts have slipped, with some latest Steam opinions alleging issues with the sport’s monetization, in addition to poor map design and different points.

A fast have a look at Battlefield 6’s Steam numbers additionally present that its 24-hour participant peak (at time of writing) is lower than a tenth of its total excessive of just below 750,000 again in October. Shedding gamers is inevitable for a live-service recreation, however that is a really lengthy strategy to fall.

Nonetheless, Battlefield 6 is way above Name of Obligation within the concurrent participant stakes, so it appears that evidently whereas Battlefield 6 was EA’s most profitable franchise launch so far, it nonetheless wasn’t profitable sufficient to maintain the writer’s seemingly limitless starvation.

These layoffs are simply the newest in an extended string of business cuts, studio closures, and venture cancellations. One slightly wonders simply how for much longer the business, and particularly the big-budget triple-A business, can proceed to hemorrhage workers and studios earlier than one thing snaps.

In any case, you possibly can try Battlefield 6 proper now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S, and you’ll learn our very personal Austin’s evaluation of the sport proper right here.