Marcus Lehto left EA?
Hi, News indicate so. Wonder how it reflects now on upcoming battlefield? Imo it's bad thing and also indicates, that EA might have some organization trouble. This gives many mixed opinions and thou...
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@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:
@UP_HawxxeyeAgree. Portal was the 'love letter' to fans when it became clear in the development process that Hazard Zone wouldn't cut it with players.
If done well, Portal could be the saviour of the franchise!
But nooooooo
they had to sabotage portal by panicking too much about people farming bots and putting a lot of restrictions + not providing enough filters for us to filter out the type of portal gameplay we want
Maybe to get back to topic I would throw in my 2 Euro-Cents:
I think we need to know why Marcus left EA to judge if it is good/bad/neutral. Until we know the reason, there is nothing we can base our judgement of the situation on, right?
- If he left because of health reasons, family reason or if he was involved in some kind of 'scandal' and was forced to resign, the this would be 'good' (judging only!!! when it comes to the BF franchise of course)
- If he was let go because EA decided to close the studio as they do not want a singleplayer campaign for the next title, I would rate this as neutral. I personally don't care for the singleplayer part and if they have to cut costs for some reason, the part where the ACTUAL game would suffer least from is single player. At least if they did not intend to add another BR/extraction shooter part as this would be even more superfluous than SP.
- If he left because he could not realize his vision for what he and the studio wanted for the next title, then this would indeed be BAD as he was asking the right questions on Twitter and also got the right/expected feedback IIRC and the wishes of the community were clear.
But all is speculation until we know the reasons why he left (or was made to leave).
@ForumUser wrote:Maybe to get back to topic I would throw in my 2 Euro-Cents:
I think we need to know why Marcus left EA to judge if it is good/bad/neutral. Until we know the reason, there is nothing we can base our judgement of the situation on, right?
- If he left because of health reasons, family reason or if he was involved in some kind of 'scandal' and was forced to resign, the this would be 'good' (judging only!!! when it comes to the BF franchise of course)
- If he was let go because EA decided to close the studio as they do not want a singleplayer campaign for the next title, I would rate this as neutral. I personally don't care for the singleplayer part and if they have to cut costs for some reason, the part where the ACTUAL game would suffer least from is single player. At least if they did not intend to add another BR/extraction shooter part as this would be even more superfluous than SP.
- If he left because he could not realize his vision for what he and the studio wanted for the next title, then this would indeed be BAD as he was asking the right questions on Twitter and also got the right/expected feedback IIRC and the wishes of the community were clear.
But all is speculation until we know the reasons why he left (or was made to leave).
1. If someone leaves for health/family reasons, I doubt they are worried about their social media profiles. I could be wrong, but if something is that significant, I don't know many people hopping onto all those platforms to scrub their profiles.
2. Most of the time when high-level employees get hired or leave, there is an announcement. Just like when he was hired. The fact that this did not occur and there was no "thank you" from EA means he left on less-than-favorable terms. EA, like other public companies, are super risk averse due to their stock price. If this was positive, like the campaign being complete or something along those lines, it would be announced. This has bad news written all over it, thus no word from EA. If it was nothing big even, they would want to put something out to quell the speculation and outline their plan moving forward.
Interestingly, ‘Ridgeline’’s profile on X still mentions ‘Battlefield’. So Lehto left the venture but the company is still engaged in the work, apparently.
I have to go with that he left on less than good terms. Like some have said there would have been an announcement. In any terms this is not good!
True, all the signs tell 'did not leave on good terms'. But I don't want to jump to any conclusions just yet. I am confident that some day in the not too distant future the real reason for Marcus leaving EA will be made public. One way or another.
If I had to bet I would speculate about an announcement of EA closing down the studio and Marcus in his position was informed first and was a bit too fast with updating his profile before EA officially announced the studio will be closed. But as I mentioned, this is just a guess. Maybe I will bookmark this post to see if I was correct on that one.
can't we just wait for an official announcement before we start speculating? give them a few days before shaking your magic eight-balls *
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