EA Lays Off 300 in Montreal Studio

[JMcEntegart]

EA has announced job cuts at its Montreal studio.

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[Guest]

I was expecting this.

 

[Onus]

I think I need a pitchfork...

 

[bak0n]

Sorry but their programmer staff isn't the issue here.

 

[edogawa]

Time to throw EA into the Great Pit of Carkoon!

 

[anti-painkilla]

Despite EA bring forced to take action as consumers vote with their wallets, EA still denies that the problem is from the top down.

 

[aggroboy]

Tech companies are laying people off indiscriminately as well, it's just a freaking tough decade.

 

[amoralman]

Dificult decisions my ass EA. You're *only* goal is money, so please don't also lie to us.

 

[derekullo]

ABANDON SHIP!!!

 

[Gundam288]

Something tells me that this might be because of Sim City or the BF4 pre-order numbers don't look too good so far. Or maybe it's to cover "The Golden Parachute" of the leaving CEO? Anyway you look at it, it's sad they lost their jobs but it's also nice to see that EA is hurting from those 2 worst company awards back-to-back.

 

[slomo4sho]

And it begins... It is a long fall from the top.

 

[PadaV4]

Dead corpse walking. I don't think anything can save ea now. They can change the ceo`s and what else they want, but it doesn't matter, because the greedy shareholders will still be there. Whoever they put in charge will be just a slave to corporate greed, and greed makes them blind. They don't see us customers, they don't hear our words, they see just numbers in their balances. bb EA.

 

[g00fysmiley]

more reasons to not buy ea products, fire the people actually makign the games and likely they will increase prices of games again with the new consoles

 

[cknobman]

And EA wonders why they are voted worst company on the planet???

 

[yobobjm]

The Issue we're facing here is, regardless of your thoughts on EA, the traditional style game developer is facing issues with the new way to sell games. They either have to make them massively marketed and hyped (which costs lots of money), make them all have large development cycles, decent marketing, and high quality, like we all love (but this yields not as much profic), or they make them free to play with limited development cycles and little short term gain, but potential long term gain. And none of these always work for the publisher, so they have serious income issues. We already lost THQ, and I think all the other companies are suffering.

 

[dawolf74]

But I thought that the gaming community was embracing the business model that EA has been trying to force feed us. If there were so many embraces going on, wouldn't EA need MORE developers?

 

[016ive]

Looks like EA will make it as the worst company third time in a row!

 

[bigdragon]

John Riccitiello was a good start, but they need to get rid of the other executives like Peter Moore in order to really shake things up at EA. The company needs a house cleaning starting at the top. Hitting the bottom will not change anything. I also recall that's a Bioware studio that's getting hit. Worst Company in America indeed.

 

[Heironious]

Spend untold thousands of dollars at a university to become a game developer they said, it will be fun and rewarding they said.

 

[dalethepcman]

That will teach you to vote us the worst company ever, your all fired!