really, really upsetting to see what's been happening at EA over the last several months. it feels like it's every month just about, another thing shut down. www.ign.com/articles/ea-... - ThreadSky

duckvalentine.bsky.social • 6 days ago

really, really upsetting to see what's been happening at EA over the last several months. it feels like it's every month just about, another thing shut down.

https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-cancels-black-panther-game-closes-cliffhanger-studios

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reformedredditor.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ultimate rent-seeking company; they just sit on their licenses for the Madden and (née) FIFA games, and spit out the same game, year after year. (Oh, and endless Sims DLC).

They really don’t seem to have to do anything creative or interesting anymore.

ozziemejia.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hate all of this and it's taking everything for me not to write "EAt shit" for our story.

druidsfire.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'll be your alibi if you do.

cyropike.bsky.social•6 days ago

Goddamn it

knuxie.bsky.social•5 days ago

Several... decades, you meant to say... right?

enthusiasticwhale.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah... It's brutal

serenityrune.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is not good. If this starts affecting the sims then we will be in trouble.

lawoftsunami.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's already big trouble as it is. Very rarely do companies that do this, bounce back well - if at all

silphid.bsky.social•6 days ago

Aside from, you know, the news itself, I got redirected to LATAM's IGN site with the article in spanish, do you know if the translation is automatic or is there another human being translating your articles?

insanelybuff.bsky.social•6 days ago

they spent close to 3bil on stock buybacks and are mass firing their workers amid record profits <3

anthonon.bsky.social•6 days ago

EA killing everything per usual. What's next Bethesda with blade?

sockynoob.bsky.social•6 days ago

Guaranteed they'll shut down Slightly Mad and Codemasters next.....

shi.wtf•6 days ago

reminder not to read ign comments...

jort-hk.bsky.social•5 days ago

EA has always been like this tbh.

duckvalentine.bsky.social•5 days ago

they've had three layoff rounds so far this year. I've been covering them for a decade now and this seems a bit extreme even for them

jort-hk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah that's fair.

elderlygoose.bsky.social•6 days ago

It looks like they're stripping off assets priming themselves to be bought.

drmikachu.bsky.social•6 days ago

This article made me cry. I selfishly wanted to play this game, but more importantly I've loved meeting members of this team and my heart breaks for them.

Thank you for reporting.

takoyakyono.bsky.social•6 days ago

Doesn't EA buy studios up in order to acquire their IPs and licenses before shutting the studio down?

wifiwisdmomm.bsky.social•6 days ago

If it was white panther it’d get a government grant

thatbeardoadam.bsky.social•6 days ago

"To that end, Miele's email continues, the company is focusing on a small handful of franchises going forward: Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends."

Original games sacrificed for the sake of the same old shit.

xar.ph•6 days ago

Didn't they cancel Sims 5 because the players would revolt if the Sims 4 pipeline ever stops?

Sims players are like the adage about governments being afraid of their people.

shadowofthedrake.bsky.social•5 days ago

At this point EA feels more like a venture capital firm than a game studio

iluminatethesky.bsky.social•5 days ago

pdspurgeon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Which one was incredibly successful?

iluminatethesky.bsky.social•5 days ago

apparently not this one 😳

pdspurgeon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Nor their last one from what I could find.

fruvous73.bsky.social•5 days ago

The contraction period after a period of expansion is always dark and ugly. :( Way too much money chasing the same amount of business (it's not like the number of gamers with money went up) was a recipe for disaster and now the market has to cool off.

darthburrit0.bsky.social•6 days ago

what a bummer.

nostalgiavictim.bsky.social•6 days ago

They say people die twice. Once when you stop breathing and again when the game based on your MCU role gets canceled.

ghstrbt.bsky.social•6 days ago

None of the marvel games have been based in the mcu for like 14 years.

nostalgiavictim.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah but the joke doesn’t really work that way does it?

deadeyedbirdman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Eventually they’re just gonna run out of people who want to work for them

misterpedantic.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sure seems like, they rolled up too many projects all at once during the pandemic before it was over, thinking that consumer behavior would continue, and then everything hit a wall.

finndingo.bsky.social•6 days ago

They should just stick to sports games…which tbf I guess is what they’re doing.

mitchyd.bsky.social•6 days ago

Those final paragraphs are astonishing. Genuinely have no idea how leadership can retain their jobs when the last several years have been so destructive and damaging.

nickmanwrites.bsky.social•6 days ago

You can't expect leadership to hold themselves accountable.

silopolis.bsky.social•6 days ago

Literally all that matters is that the stockholders are happy. If the numbers keep going up, the executives are doing their jobs.

Even if those numbers are going up because hundreds or thousands of people have had their lives ruined.

trickweekes.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh, no, it's easy, they can retain their jobs by laying off the people who don't go to $1000 business lunches with other executives. Lay off enough of us, and it totally makes up the difference.

atom7895.bsky.social•6 days ago

Dang! The people who had seen parts of this game thought it looked pretty great too.

cypherial.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nobody hates gaming like the gaming industry

ac-revolution.bsky.social•6 days ago

Please this isn't April 1st 😬

jackegee.bsky.social•6 days ago

After Monolith Productions were shut down, I had some hope that this studio would kind of carry on their legacy:(

starlightpl.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's almost as if there was some invisible, stock market pressure behind doing that. Naaah, impossibru. Right? Right?

tunaphish09.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sadly this seems to be EAs MO. I hate to see it happening all over the industry 😔

realblaster1360.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's EA...

Who gives a shit if they cancel games or go under entirely?

duckvalentine.bsky.social•5 days ago

Uhhhhh.....people who care about the hundreds of folks who lose their livelihoods every time this happens, for one

jushin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wait, wasn't @alexaray.bsky.social the writer for this game?
This sucks

alexaray.bsky.social•6 days ago

I was writing with an incredible writer by the name of Curtis Baxter, who is not on Blusky. We both left in March. Truly does suck.

witdarkstar.bsky.social•6 days ago

Morale has been at an all-time low. I can say that much.

duckvalentine.bsky.social•5 days ago

i'm so so sorry

acdramon.bsky.social•4 days ago

🫂🫂🫂🫂

d13g9.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am so sorry... I love Titanfall 2 and you guys did not deserve this. If you take a poll most people that play TF 2 would like a TF 3, and would pay for it too, not the exorbitant prices that companies are asking for their game today, but a solid 50 USD. I won't because I live in the third world.

floschuller.bsky.social•5 days ago

I am so sorry for you and your team :(

omg76.bsky.social•4 days ago

So sorry. I love the Jedi games. So much talent and love clearly went into them , I really enjoyed them and admire the people that made them

themoonis.gay•6 days ago

"surely we'll be able to sustain a catalog on sports games and skate"

vertegras.bsky.social•6 days ago

tfw even their sports games are failing and skate is a niche title.

xar.ph•6 days ago

One year Madden and FC are both going to flop in the same year because people are sick of ultimate team gacha and EA will look like Las Vegas if the Hoover Dam ever fails.

ghostfromspace.bsky.social•5 days ago

There’s so much talent at Respawn and it’s a shame EA has to balance that along with a budget. In a perfect world, we’d get to see every game you guys cook up.

We need a Titanfall 3 now more than ever. Tell the suits the Ghost from Space said so.

tomlonde.bsky.social•6 days ago

Would it kill EA to not constantly be so....EA?

knuxie.bsky.social•5 days ago

They have been this was as far back as the Sega Genesis, literally nearly as long as I've been alive. The rot is a core company value.

dhampirvampire.bsky.social•6 days ago

It would be nice, but it is an impossible ask. Lol.

hakuso3.bsky.social•6 days ago

Don't say that, they might try to be more Ubisoft.

lyonsdenprojects.bsky.social•6 days ago

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