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EA GAMES JOB CUTS

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  • 22-12-2008 6:38pm
    #1
    October_Phoenix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭


    Ea games recently announce another 10 percent reduction in employment across all their studios world wide! Crappy Huh? But this means that 1000 or so people will be losing their jobs come the new year. Could anyone out there who has any contacts in this industry or knows anything about the business, tell me who the likely people will be cut first? Will it be programmers or artists people that have permanent positions, or will it be the lowly games tester that gets the cut? People who have three and 6 month games testing contracts? I would appreciate it if anyone could give me some insight into this as this would affect me very much?


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    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I dont have any insight into this, but i'd say its fair to assume that contractors will be first to go.


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    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    i'd say it will be permanent staff. They probably don't factor contractors into it. Contractors usually appear in a different place on the budget sheet. Probably a case of getting rid of their least competent staff especially in countries where they get paid the most.


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    CCCP^
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    Hopefully it's the 1,000 people responsible for all the **** games they made. Although the number should be far higher.


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    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    im not at all surprised by this,spore was downloaded well over 100,000.


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    awhir
    Registered Users Posts: 4,227 ✭✭✭awhir


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    im not at all surprised by this,spore was downloaded well over 100,000.

    ?


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    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,600 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Nevermind Spore the games industry as a whole must have the narrowest profit margin (is that the right term?) for any of the multimedia industries. Games are costing upwards of the millions to create now & unlike movies where you can still break even thanks to foreign markets, you don't have that potential safety net with games. They seem to either sell or don't, there doesn't seem to be a middle-area. I would like to see the figures on how many units a AAA title has to sell to even break even because I have been wondering for a while when the bubble would burst for game devs.

    It's doubly unsurprising given how a few years ago EA were systematically buying up every small dev house they could get their hands on. I would put money on the likelyhood that these are studios being hit the worst, with the "non essential" staff getting sacked & the remainder folded into the main EA studios.


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    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    awhir wrote: »
    ?

    I meant downloaded illegally.


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    #9
    Overheal
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    In fairness EA could do with losing a few pounds.


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