Earlier this week, Adam Sneed wrote about the new SimCity and what it can teach us about managing real cities. There’s one big caveat that should go without saying: In order to learn from the game, you have to be able to play it.
EA just hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and its executives have been asked to comment about the recent price hikes for games.
Today, Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2025, alongside the full year.
Split Fiction has sold nearly 4 million copies, and the next battlefield is confirmed for a release by March 2026 with a reveal this Summer.
In addition to the roughly 100 job cuts IGN reported earlier today at Respawn Entertainment, EA has made wider cuts across its organization today, impacting around 300 individuals total including those already reported at Respawn.
Absolutely insane. Man I'm hope they land on their feet EA needs to get the shit together badly....
This is why this industry has slow releases and none compelling games.
Why would anyone willingly work in the VG industry or specifically for one of these globocorp organizations that put you in constant fear of losing your livelihood based on terrible choices made by idiotic management, not the people with talent making the actual games?
The outrage is in no way overblown. DRM punishes customers. Plain and simple. EA is a shitty company with shitty policies. Pirates wouldn't pirate as much if they weren't afraid of the bait and switch that companies like EA so often perpetrate on their fanbase.
The answer to this problem is making better games, something that EA, Activision, and other big name developers are unable to do in this say and age, that is why they resort to DRM.