The end of the fiscal year is approaching, electronic arts has released an update on how it plans to conduct business next year. The bad news is that EA is going through a restructuring, resulting in layoffs affecting “about 6%” of its workforce. This amounts to approximately 750 employees.
It looks like the project has been canceled
EA CEO Andrew Wilson “We are moving away from projects that don’t contribute to our strategy, reviewing our real estate footprint and reorganizing some of our teams,” the publisher explained. Reading between the lines, it appears that some games may have been canceled as well, although nothing has been confirmed.
According to recent rumors, the single-player Apex Legends game was canceled and the mobile versions of Battlefield and Apex Legends were officially shut down at the end of January. The future of the Madden franchise rests entirely on Madden NFL 24, but some older Battlefield game servers have shut down.
Employees from canceled projects could be part of 750 EA layoffs. Colleagues who are removed from the project will have the opportunity to “move to other projects”, but if this is not possible, they will be laid off. Wilson said they handled the process “with the utmost care and respect,” but said that EA “operates from a position of strength” and that “our business is gaining momentum.” ” After that, sentiment leveled off a bit.
