After today’s rumors about layoffs in EA, the company has confirmed that employees are being dismissed. According to IGN, these layoffs have greatly impacted the EA experience team. This includes Fan Care team, as well as customer and marketing service equipment.
In a statement, an EA spokesman referred to layoffs to “align equipment and assign resources to the service of promoting future growth.” The measure is intended to continue the company’s approach in “long -term strategic priorities.”
“We are treating our people with care and respect throughout this process, working to minimize impacts by helping employees affected to explore new opportunities within the company when possible and provide support during the transition,” the statement continued.
Breath had confirmed that some of its employees in development teams for Apex legends and the Star Wars Jedi The franchise was being transferred. In his statement, Respawn also mentioned that he had canceled two of his incubation projects “initial stage.” Although so far not too many details have been confirmed about these canceled titles, it is rumored that one of them was a multiplayer extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe. The game had a code name R7 during its development.
The statement was followed by reports, courtesy of Jason Schreier de Bloomberg, who between 300 and 400 EA employees were being fired. Of these, it is said that around 100 are employees of Respawn Entertainment.
A former Respawn employee had revealed in March that another incubation project in the study had been canceled. Although not too many details were revealed at that time, the employee, former executive assistant and production coordinator in the study, Emilee Evans, had said he was a multiplayer shooter.
Meanwhile, EA and breathe are currently working on an important update for Apex legendscalled version 2.0 of the game. During the EA quarterly gains call in February, EA CEO, Andrew Wilson, spoke about the trajectory of Apex legendsAnd how future development will focus on improving things for the game in three “central vectors”: community support, game improvements and a more complete update in the future.
“At some point in a long -term temporal horizon, there will be an even bigger and more significant update of that broader game experience,” Wilson said. “A Apex 2.0if you like. This will not be the final incarnation of Apex.
In the long term, Wilson said the company wants to continue supporting Apex legends When they ensure clinging to the central community of the game and at the same time form new communities that want to try the game.
“And then in the long term, our expectation is that we will continue to expand what this franchise is and how we support a central community of highly competitive players and new communities that want to come and experience all the greatness that Apex You have to offer, ”he said.
Apex legends It is a free Battle Royale game available on PC, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.
