EA Lays Off Staff at Battlefield Studios - News
by William D'Angelo , posted 6 days ago / 2,452 Views
Electronic Arts has laid off employees across its Battlefield teams, which includes Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios. This is according to a report from IGN.
Staff are being told the layoffs are part of a "realignment" across the Battlefield studios as the teams continue to support Battlefield 6. All four studios will remain open, however, layoffs appear to be impacting people at a variety of teams.
Battlefield 6 set a franchise record with over seven million units sold in three days. During the launch weekend there were over 172 million matches played online and over 15 million hours watched on streaming services. The game was also the best-selling shooter of 2025, according to EA.
Battlefield 6 launched for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on October 10, 2025.
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Biggest selling game last year, still not enough to save jobs.
Yeah but biggest selling does not mean much in the end because it got ousold in November by BO7 and December and January and Februari..and how much retention does the game have? How many skins does every user buy? How many battle passes or whatever..
Break sales records. Get fired.
Wtf.
Congrats on the huge sales everyone, your fired
They're all gonna be replaced with AI. -_-
Yep, that their disgusting plan all along. Fook those greedy c**ts
