Report: Electronic Arts Readying to Layoff 500+ Employees
In a move that probably comes as no shock to those in the know, EA will shortly begin a massive layoff of anywhere between 500 to 1,000 employees. That’s about 5%-11% of their total employees. To be perfectly honest, it’s not the least bit surprising given the poor performance of titles like Battlefield 3 and the recently launched Star Wars The Old Republic (An MMORPG that seems to be on a one-way track towards Free 2 Play status). While It’s never nice to hear that hundreds of people will soon be without work during an economic downturn, one has to wonder if all this could have been avoided by not chasing titles like BF3 out of the release gate with a ludicrous $30 million advertising budget, or releasing a run of the mill MMORPG with a rumored budget in upwards of $130 million. Actually, their business practices need a lot of work in general. Here we have a company that created the fabulous “Project 10 Dollar”, an experiment that has become a festering annoyance to countless