Did your game do poorly? Straight to unemployment.

Did your game do very well? Believe it or not, straight to unemployment.

Classic modern tech company formula. If any records or targets are broken, mass layoffs must happen.

I think MBA schools have forgotten the golden rule of economics: you get what you incentivise for. Guaranteed unemployment isn't it.

I've basically just stopped buying AAA games at this point. They are invariably worse quality than indie and AA titles and filled with microtransactions and other predatory bullshit, and the icing on the shit-filled cake is that by buying them you are legitimizing this kind of behavior.

There are just so many good games to play across so many genres that there is no reason whatsoever to buy them, and buying indie games you can feel good about supporting a small dev.

It is especially upsetting to see this news because I remember playing a crapton of Bad Company 2 with my friends in school. All of us got BF3 on launch and played it to death. 4 came out and I know people really liked it but to me it wad just an overly streamlined 3, 1 was cool but a bit too arcadey for me, 5 had no soul and 2042 was clearly just a joke. I hate seeing franchises I loved die through corpo bullshit but there's plenty of other, better, tastier fish in the sea.

"EA is EA, even if you fried it with butter."

"The game is finished. You are of no use to us any longer, peasants. Begone!"

Anyone who gives EA money is an absolute moron and is part of the problem.

EA execs to the employees:

Thanks for making us a lot of money, unfortunately, we need it more than you, our yacht fuel is expensive. We have to let some of you go. We hope you understand. As a token of our appreciation here's a copy of BF6 and Year 1 Season Pass! Fu.. err thank you for all your hard work and dedication.

Turns out when you make a 100 million active player target it doesn't get hit and they use it as an excuse to fire you. GG.

"So long and thanks for all the crunch!" - Average EA executive

Battlefield 6 was the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025.

Wow that's surprising to me considering how it required Secure Boot enabled, which bricked a lot of people's PCs. I installed the beta for my son and thought "there's no fucking way the average gamer is going to be able to do this."

That's how they keep wages low. After the crunch, they fire anyone they might have to give a raise to. Next game they hire a bunch of new grunts for next to nothing and repeat.

I want to thank you all for making this great game that put us on top last year, but as we're already 3 months in 2026, our management have no clue how to drive this success into bigger one so we went for easy profit. I think we all agree that EA is great company that deserves more this year and sometimes more is less. I wish you all best of luck in looking for next job. Let's make EA great again.

I've had a personal boycott against EA (and Ubisoft, Activision, etc) for over 10 years now and time and time again I get reminded how good of an idea it was.

Also helped by the fact that EA titles are like $100 now and I'd much rather burn that money for a few minutes of heat than give it to the criminals at EA.

EA just doing what it's always done... Got it.

That's always been their practice, use up a team until they don't think they'll get anything more from them, then shutter them. You don't go to work for EA for the job security. You work for them because you need a stepping stone...

...Or they bought your studio.

EA is cancer. Don't ever buy from them - you'll get fucked

They chew you, then spit you out. We're basically gum.

people just shouldnt work for ea at all. Even if you do good job you still lose your job.

Always enshittification. Always this is a symptom of late-stage capitalism. The fucks in suits constantly seeking profit.

Anyone who's other than a suit will have to consider learning the trades as a backup, instead of having to chase the next open tech job.

Ea Nasir wouldn't do that!

Just punishment for making another FPS for a major corporation. Why they expect anything different at this point baffles me

These layoffs come just months after the unexpected death of Battlefield franchise head Vince Zampella in a car accident. They also come as EA is preparing to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for approximately $55 billion.

We produced a record-profit making game and we couldn't have done it with out you. Now get out and pick up your severance check on the way.

Doesn't EA do this after pretty much every major release? Bring in a ton of part-timers and consultants in the rush to release. Go live with a buggy half-assed product. Fire most of the team to save costs. Then coast on marketing and DLC for a few years, before you kick off the next dev cycle and do it again?

AI games. Fuck over everything.

They already broke the record, they won't be needing those peons anymore.

I wish we could band together and create a company not with the motive of profit for shareholders, but with the motive of wages for employees.

What if the goal was to hire and pay as many people as much as possible, all while creating something really neat.

How do we start this?

It's like the movies industry but here there's still some consumers that pretend to care

Battlefield and COD are just rinse and repeat at this point. They will get AI to change the skin and slightly alter the maps from here on out. Sports games to follow.

Time for everyone else at EA to unionize