EA cuts more jobs

I miss the old EA. Back when they developed/published games like General Chaos and James Pond. Oh and of course the Mutant League series.

Guys, please. Don't look to the gaming industry for a lifelong career and financial stability. No one's means of supporting themselves should be at the mercy of a MetaCritic review.

More and more layoffs... is the industry going down?? o_O

What do you expect from the people who won shittest company of the year two years in a row...

These are hard but essential changes as we focus on delivering great games and showing players around the world why to spend their time with us," the statement goes on...

Um, maybe if their shit was playable on day one out of the box wihout always online bs, they would not need to lay people off. Or hear is a thought, maybe if their games were actually any good....

Lay everyone at BioWare off, and then EA, you can put a freaking bullet in your head

lol Shitty companies always love to lay off when they have too much capacity and rehire when they need more capacity. That way they can maximize their profits all the way through. Makes perfect sense when you're at the top. Just die already EA. Just die.

EA: "So how do we make more money?"

Gamers: "Well you could make better games."

EA: "Or we could fire everyone and make worse games cheaper so we still make a profit"

Gamers: "...."

Better to get rid of the suits. ( CEOs, management )

No many people realize that one of the reasons for the high cost of new games has a lot to do with the outrageous salaries that the suits make.

Better optimization or new Porsche..hmmm ?

End of EA..

Yes! EA cuts all of employees off the place, then they all would be able to join those great game video studios such as Capcom, Konami, etc to make better games than stupid EA games.

Well, how much more fat EA going to trim ?

Now, just cut all the rest and we'll all be happy.

hmm if the leaving ceo did not take those few milions with him as a farewell gift, they would not be missing that much money to fire so many people

Don't take it personal BROS. You don't work for EA. hahahahha.

Only at Gamespot would stories of people losing their livelihoods illicite such antipathy. Way to prove you're morons.

To be honest with all of you, this is beginning to look more and more like a video-game mini-crash. The customers are pissed with draconian DRM schemes, the publishers are despised, and the developers are now unable to sell games that were huge AAA financial investments.
More and more gaming studios and publishers are removing themselves from E3, meaning E3 is landing with a bit of a thud this year, and the whole thing just seems to be going down the drain.

I say it is about time, too. Sadly, crashing the companies doing evil to us (namely DRM) is the only way we can get back the rights that are ours as consumers. Bring on the crash, I say.

EA cuts more jobs to make room for a basketball court and ice skating ring to expand breakroom.

It would be poetic justice if all the people EA has abused and fired over the years formed their own company and put EA out of business.

This sounds familiar, right THQ

@PSYCHOV3N0M lol why does this keep happening to me XD

in a perfect world the "boss" should put a bullet in his head for this failure

@PSYCHOV3N0M wow. without a doubt. THE. BEST. VIDEO. EVER. MADE. BY. HUMANs. EVAR111!!!!!. that was some funny stuff right there. its really a shame that we laugh at this, but its mostly true.

Next Headline: "Sim city servers will be shut down in the next month"

I feel bad for the guys and gals getting ousted. It must be aggrevating to feel that you have a great job and then suddenly get the pink slip because the company you presumably felt good working at decides that they aren't making enough money with you there. If they keep cutting workers there, then I guess they'll just have to cut and paste from used games? It seems that's all their sports games anyways, so maybe they'll be successful as a cut and paste game company?

Wow EA, you're on the right track for another "worst of" for 2013.

@PSYCHOV3N0M wow! more like this. you actually made me want to try again at 3D modeling and animating and that's from someone who lost interest in almost everything in this stupid worlds of ours.

@PSYCHOV3N0M LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@forlietu MY JOB?!

Obviously they had to fire all these people because of the sheer amount of gamers "embracing microtransactions" right? That's how business works if you only use EA as an example! "We're making shit loads of cash oh and *cough*wehavetofirelotsofpeoplebecauseofhowmuchwearen'treallymaking*cough*"

There should be a law restricting big businesses from doing massive lay-offs such as this. It's as if they do this on a daily basis. Damn shame, in order for the top man to get his bonus or 10% pay increase, the bottom are affected.

lets cut the workforce so there is nobody left to make games for the new consoles, good idea!

keep pushing your "mobile" see how far it gets you