mads 🐼

@smadseli.bsky.social

30ish | butch 🫡 | history student @ uhi 📚 | yaps about yuri & anime and whatever I like | fmr games industry cm

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

Yeah we're going to see anything remaining of value at EA get chopped up or thrown into the fire to keep warm, and of course they're going to lay off thousands of people so that the company gets the privilege of disintegrating in a few years. www.gamesradar.com/games/mass-l...

Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs

The Battlefield and Sims owner has taken on $20 billion in debt by going private

gamesradar.com

this is just me throwing half-baked thoughts out there but I do think it is sad that the years-long craving and demand for more games to play with friends that aren’t just shooters creating a whole niche of games you can play with your friends only for it to be called “friendslop” colloquially