Layoffs Hit EA Tiburon?

[Bowinkle08]

Quote: Originally Posted by charter04

If I was one of those who lost my job I wouldn't be very happy about how much I'm sure that Madden season commercial cost Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

lol true. paying hart and franco. layoffs suck though, no matter who the company is

[HoundsOfHowl]

That #cancelaccess trend must've hurt the pocket books...

But that does suck, always hate hearing about layoffs at anywhere.

[bxgoods]

Every company in this economy is having lay offs nowadays.
It doesn't surprise me anymore when I hear news of layoffs.

[snc237]

Plus they still had a last gen team working on madden. That team is probably no longer needed as this was the final push for the 360.

[Iceman87GT]

Also the inquisitor article is garbage and poorly researched. They think NCAA 14 came out in September (as opposed to the series being cancelled in September), they also said that this layoff essentially cancels the series (again that happened in September).

Because the thing is so full of errors I'm not sure if we could trust the numbers they give in the update but apparently 4% of the Madden Team was laid off, and it was because they couldn't justify the expansion they saw when they brought on some members of the NCAA team. You know how some members of the NCAA team weren't fired but moved over to Madden? Well it appears the lower programmers from that move have been let go.

So essentially this is the yearly purge of a development cycle, sucks for those who get downsized but not a sign that EA or Madden are in trouble.

[bxphenom7]

Madden won't be cancelled, not even close. They'd just release what they have now. The NFL would rather that than cancel the game. As much as I can't stand EA most of the time, it really sucks to have people lose their jobs. I believe a lot of times it's partially due to the people on top staying with way too much money, as if they couldn't still live comfortably taking a decent to large cut so others wouldn't lose their jobs, and raise morale.

I'm also anxious to hear what any of them have to say about working at EA. Hope they find positions soon.

[dkp23]

New three year plan vision inbound.

[Hooe]

Unfortunately this is pretty typical of the AAA video game industry. Release product, lay off staff.

I'm halfway surprised that EA Sports still staffs an NCAA Football team right now to begin with.

The article states that about 4% of the Madden NFL staff was let go. For whatever that number is worth. I would fathom to guess that that number is not large enough to have any significant impact on the direction of the series.