EA Shuts Down Ridgeline Games Studio
Thanks EA, seriously, you are a clown show. This is what you do to one of the most well respected Game Directors in the business? https://twitter.com/game_fabricator/status/1762971612977262814
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@Adamonic All the big tech / gaming companies are doing it. What do they know that we don’t? PlayStation just dumped a bunch of people too. PC gaming alone is worth billions, throw in consoles and we’re talking multi-billion dollar industry. Personally I think it’s all corporate greed and profiteering. They care nothing about their staff, I’m not convinced they care anything about their customers either. These are big companies and profit is all they care about. Good games means nothing. A crappy game that catches on and makes profit is preferred to a big game that tanks. I understand the mechanics of it, but margins mean more than anything to these companies.
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@AdamonicAll the big tech / gaming companies are doing it. What do they know that we don’t? PlayStation just dumped a bunch of people too. PC gaming alone is worth billions, throw in consoles and we’re talking multi-billion dollar industry. Personally I think it’s all corporate greed and profiteering. They care nothing about their staff, I’m not convinced they care anything about their customers either. These are big companies and profit is all they care about. Good games means nothing. A crappy game that catches on and makes profit is preferred to a big game that tanks. I understand the mechanics of it, but margins mean more than anything to these companies.I have seen this first hand. EA needs to hit their margin projections for this quarter and the easiest way to do that is by cutting salaries, especially from groups that are currently not profitable.
It's wild because all the corporate management structure gets big merit increases and stock options while they thin the minions. It's criminal really. I have no clue why anyone would willingly work for EA.
