Layoffs Strike EA, Mobile Studio Hit Hardest

Ed130 The Vanguard

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Perhaps they should start laying off the suits in upper management as well if they have to lay off staff in one of their more successful product lines, or was the whole 'Our IOS products are making money!' spiel they shouted a little while back another lie like the DRM in SimCity?
 

Strazdas

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Hopefully the good talent will find the job elsewhere, hopefully even better one. The bad talent will stay bad however. But thats tue in any industry.
The fastest way to make short term profits are to cut wages or workers. in the long run that is a disaster (unless the workers were actually bad workers), but when did that ever stop companies?


Mister Six said:
This is something I never really understood. Why go into a career where the majority of publishers will fire you after the current project is finished? I understand the appeal to do something you love, but this sort of thing reeks of masochism on the part of the employees, though they do have my sympathy.
They are willing tyo accept that to be able to do the work they love perhaps. It is the same as working on contracts relay, you do the contract, you stop working for that person, you search for a new contract. There are plenty of occupations where jobs are not permanent at all, and some people are okay with it. Others - dont work in such industries msot of the time.
 

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Mister Six said:
This is something I never really understood. Why go into a career where the majority of publishers will fire you after the current project is finished? I understand the appeal to do something you love, but this sort of thing reeks of masochism on the part of the employees, though they do have my sympathy.
In a market as competitive as this, I believe that many will take any job that provides them with a paycheck, doubly so if it happens to coincide with their chosen profession.

OT: Holy shit, EA, I was wrong. How could've you POSSIBLY get the evil mofos of the year award? You're right here listening to the plebs who think that mobile/casual games suck and that microtransactions can retard themselves out of existence and BAM! you're firing all the people responsible for such games? You are true sweethearts after all.
 

weirdee

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Well, they don't explain the hiring practices to you, and it takes a while to figure out how it is on the workplace end if all you have for references are teachers who may or may not have had experience with real game industry work, so most students weren't even aware of this situation until the rise of the internet and the increasing publicity of corporate practices.
 

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Yeah, I predicted the layoffs weeks back after the poor Q2 earnings.
Mobile apps are lightweight and cheap to outsource development if need be.

I'm sure this move was just to please investors by showing that they're lowering their operating costs, more than making anything more efficient.
 

thehorror2

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Wherever they find work, at least they won't be working with EA anymore. So they've got that going for them!
 

FalloutJack

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They should form their own party, The League of Not EA, dedicated to not being like EA.