EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
Always fun to develop a record-selling game. You lose your job as a thanks! 🤮
I want to thank you all for making this great game that put us on top last year, but as we’re already 3 months in 2026, our management have no clue how to drive this success into bigger one so we went for easy profit. I think we all agree that EA is great company that deserves more this year and sometimes more is less. I wish you all best of luck in looking for next job. Let’s make EA great again.
EA makes the best games when the executives get out of the way. Some developers took all of the assets that they had from Battlefront 2 (which was a gorgeous piece of crap) and made one of the best Star Wars flight sims I’ve ever seen.
That’s how they keep wages low. After the crunch, they fire anyone they might have to give a raise to. Next game they hire a bunch of new grunts for next to nothing and repeat.
The problem is, they serve the audience garmer non gamer: all sports simulation like: FIFA, NBA, NHL, Madden etc are with them and then games like Battlefield. I know a bunch of people that play these games, but don’t consider themselves as gamers and give 0 fucks how the industrie is doimg.
I think at this stage it’s children who are easily impressionable and using their parent’s credit cards to buy EA games, is the company’s customer base. EA hasn’t produced a good game for a long awhile. Battlefield games had been the only games I played much before 2020, but since then I stopped caring about EA.
I’ve had a personal boycott against EA (and Ubisoft, Activision, etc) for over 10 years now and time and time again I get reminded how good of an idea it was.
Also helped by the fact that EA titles are like $100 now and I’d much rather burn that money for a few minutes of heat than give it to the criminals at EA.
That’s always been their practice, use up a team until they don’t think they’ll get anything more from them, then shutter them. You don’t go to work for EA for the job security. You work for them because you need a stepping stone…
These layoffs come just months after the unexpected death of Battlefield franchise head Vince Zampella in a car accident. They also come as EA is preparing to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for approximately $55 billion.
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AI
Edit: this was a bad call by me, it turns out everything appears to be accurate. I just was making assumptions based off of outdated information
Battlefield and COD are just rinse and repeat at this point. They will get AI to change the skin and slightly alter the maps from here on out. Sports games to follow.
COD actually already has been accused of that. A ton of banners and other unlockable 2D UI elements were found to be AI generated. It’s entirely possible maps have also already been made by AI, but how would you be able to tell?
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That’s not good from a player standpoint that seems to suggest that there isn’t going to be any updates which is probably why they went the CCG route.
“Congratulations and fuck you !” EA probably.
Time for everyone else at EA to unionize
Just punishment for making another FPS for a major corporation. Why they expect anything different at this point baffles me
people just shouldnt work for ea at all. Even if you do good job you still lose your job.
“So long and thanks for all the crunch!” - Average EA executive
I want to thank you all for making this great game that put us on top last year, but as we’re already 3 months in 2026, our management have no clue how to drive this success into bigger one so we went for easy profit. I think we all agree that EA is great company that deserves more this year and sometimes more is less. I wish you all best of luck in looking for next job. Let’s make EA great again.
EA makes the best games when the executives get out of the way. Some developers took all of the assets that they had from Battlefront 2 (which was a gorgeous piece of crap) and made one of the best Star Wars flight sims I’ve ever seen.
EA new logo is “pay everything”
Enshittify Anything
That’s how they keep wages low. After the crunch, they fire anyone they might have to give a raise to. Next game they hire a bunch of new grunts for next to nothing and repeat.
Anyone who gives EA money is an absolute moron and is part of the problem.
The problem is, they serve the audience garmer non gamer: all sports simulation like: FIFA, NBA, NHL, Madden etc are with them and then games like Battlefield. I know a bunch of people that play these games, but don’t consider themselves as gamers and give 0 fucks how the industrie is doimg.
The normies are always the issue
I think at this stage it’s children who are easily impressionable and using their parent’s credit cards to buy EA games, is the company’s customer base. EA hasn’t produced a good game for a long awhile. Battlefield games had been the only games I played much before 2020, but since then I stopped caring about EA.
Nah, plenty of grown ass adults who don’t care, don’t notice or think this counts as progress
I’ll admit I still give them money as they have a few of my favorite franchises I grew up with, ME Dragon age, Dead Space.
And these are all turning to shit, besides Dead Space. That was great.
I’ve had a personal boycott against EA (and Ubisoft, Activision, etc) for over 10 years now and time and time again I get reminded how good of an idea it was.
Also helped by the fact that EA titles are like $100 now and I’d much rather burn that money for a few minutes of heat than give it to the criminals at EA.
Also helped by the fact that EA games just aren’t that good. Easiest boycott of my life
And if you absolutely must play one of their games, buy used console games, with the added bonus of keeping their kernel anti cheat shit off your PC.
EA just doing what it’s always done… Got it.
That’s always been their practice, use up a team until they don’t think they’ll get anything more from them, then shutter them. You don’t go to work for EA for the job security. You work for them because you need a stepping stone…
…Or they bought your studio.
Oh is this one of Mr. Bonesaw’s ventures, or a different thing?
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AIEdit: this was a bad call by me, it turns out everything appears to be accurate. I just was making assumptions based off of outdated informationFrom EA’s website:
https://news.ea.com/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-55-Billion/default.aspx
PIF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund
You would think that I would do some basic fact checking…
I missed when Vince Z went from Respawn to Dice LA. I retract my claims of AI
Granted, you probably don’t have the IGN budget for it
Battlefield and COD are just rinse and repeat at this point. They will get AI to change the skin and slightly alter the maps from here on out. Sports games to follow.
COD actually already has been accused of that. A ton of banners and other unlockable 2D UI elements were found to be AI generated. It’s entirely possible maps have also already been made by AI, but how would you be able to tell?
EA is cancer. Don’t ever buy from them - you’ll get fucked
Did your game do poorly? Straight to unemployment.
Did your game do very well? Believe it or not, straight to unemployment.
Your game did so-so? Also: straight to unemployment.
Our C-Suite bonuses are high… because of unemployment.
Reference for the poor unknowing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw
Under-sell over-sell