Electronic Arts would have dismissed a large number of employees in another series of targeting cuts Legends Apex And the developer of Star Wars Jedi Respawn Entertainment. According to Bloomberg NewsThe company eliminated “between 300 and 400 positions”. IGN reports that more than 100 reappearance employees have been “affected” but the cuts, but it is not clear if they have been released or have the possibility of looking for other jobs inside EA.
In an article on social networks, Respawn Entertainment said the company decided to “move away” from two “incubation projects at an early stage” (Bloomberg says that one of them was one Legends Apex Extraction of shooter code called “R7”), and that he made “targeted team adjustments” on the Legends Apex And the Jedi Star Wars teams. “We offer significant support to those affected, in particular by exploring new opportunities within EA.”
This is the second time in 2025 that Electronic Arts dismissed workers with one hand while his game studios published statements that obscure layoffs and focus on workers offering opportunities elsewhere in the company. In January Mass Effect and Dragon Age Developer Bioware published a blog indicating This because work on the next Mass Effect game was still in the early stadiums, he had chosen to assign employees to other teams to EA.
A few moments after the release of this blog, Bioware employees began to publish on social networks that the company had implemented them.
EA spent $ 125 million depositing 5% of its workforce in 2024.
The superb number of employees would have released today’s decision followed by massive cuts in EA in 2024, especially Many at Respawn Entertainment. Last year, EA told investors that it aimed to reduce its workforce 5% by the end of the yearThis means that it would leave around 670 people unemployed. Shortly after this announcement, EA closed Battlefield Support Studio RIDGELINE GAMES and canceled a first -person Star Wars match in Repawn Entertainment, saying that the developer would work on new games taking place in franchises belonging to EA.
Now we do not know what EA’s strategy is for the studio beyond the release of the Jedi Star Wars Jedi game. The only other Rapawn project supports the development of Star Wars: Zero Company with Bireactor.
If the figures today are correct, this would mean that EA has dismissed nearly a thousand employees since the beginning of 2024. These layoffs took place in the context of two major developments for the company: the “sub-performance” of Dragon Age: The Veilguard And EA SPORTS FC 25and society full throat embrace generative AI technology. EA has not announced its plans to use generative AI in game development, but for the moment, there will certainly be fewer workers to use these tools to use.
For the moment, all game developers are found, it is the impression that EA thinks that the generator and Advertising in the game are more profitable bets than the many games he has canceled in recent years.