EA has announced it is restructuring Dragon Age and Mass Effect studio BioWare, moving a number of developers onto other projects within EA and focusing entirely on Mass Effect going forward.
Here’s a question. Is it better for the industry to have studios layoff employees when they finish a project and their other project is in Pre-Production which only requires a small team? Or is it better to assign the people who aren’t needed yet, since the Pre-production team is small, to help other teams in a larger parent company? I’d argue the second option is far better. And the second option is what’s happening here.
Exactly. Which is why framing this as layoffs is incredibly disingenuous. And it seems most games media is framing it as such despite it simply being a pre-production decision.
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Here’s a question. Is it better for the industry to have studios layoff employees when they finish a project and their other project is in Pre-Production which only requires a small team? Or is it better to assign the people who aren’t needed yet, since the Pre-production team is small, to help other teams in a larger parent company? I’d argue the second option is far better. And the second option is what’s happening here.
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Exactly. Which is why framing this as layoffs is incredibly disingenuous. And it seems most games media is framing it as such despite it simply being a pre-production decision.