Electronic Arts lays off hundreds, cancels Titanfall (3?)

I don't have a Bloomberg account, so Reuters source will have to do.  To catch everyone up, back in January, numbers dropped indicating that yearly revenue was down (by nearly ~half a billion dollars);

Electronic Arts lowered its annual bookings forecast, citing weak in-game spending for "FC 25" and underperformance of its new Dragon Age title amid an uncertain economic environment marked by high inflation.

Madden, College Football and generic Football Club ALL underperformed.  Market value and stock price tanked as a result, making EA look weak.  Now they're firing hundreds of workers, reducing Apex Legends and Jedi: Survivor teams (although this is EA Entertainment, customer service, etc. and not specifically EA Sports): https://www.reuters.com/technology/electronic-arts-lays-off-hundreds-cancels-titanfall-game-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-04-29/

The company is in serious trouble.  Next cycle (Madden 26 & CFB26) won't have PS4 / last-gen console titles available for sale.  IMO, there's essentially zero chance the next iteration of College Football will sell as well as last year's CFB25, which was new at the time, thus shattering all manner of sales records.  Seems that EA has no plan, they're desperate.  None of this is sustainable, IMO... they fully intended to coast on these live service titles, knowing full well they had their monopoly power to throw around.

Be prepared for more pain and suffering, but this time it won't just be us, the player base.  Think carefully before you drop any pre-orders.  Now is the time to send a message if you wish to vote with your wallet.

I know ea sucks at what their doing 

I just enjoy football so much, I can’t see myself not getting madden 26

And I heard college football is adding high schools, if they add my HS, I might buy that too, but probably when it’s cheaper

This is EA's own fault...also screw micro transactions and their predatory pay to win business model...

Im probably not even going to get Madden 26 when it drops in price in February/March based on how they increasingly make MUT more pay to perform well...

gonna do the same thing buy CFB26 wait until the holidays for madden repeat.

i think i just enjoy madden around the holidays opposed to the start. CFB was the most fun at the start and it got dry hopeful they do more team building aspects in college football next year.

theoriginalkbgames33 said:

gonna do the same thing buy CFB26 wait until the holidays for madden repeat.

i think i just enjoy madden around the holidays opposed to the start. CFB was the most fun at the start and it got dry hopeful they do more team building aspects in college football next year.

Early Madden is so frustrating. None of the players can catch the darn ball, on offense and defense, the preorder content is often late, if it ever arrives, to the point all the extra money we spend for early bonuses is worthless by the time we actually get cards, such as Rookie Premiers.

Very little has meaningfully changed since 2023, if not longer. In many cases they're reselling us the exact same cards, "Vintage" or From the Vault and I'm dumb enough to keep buying it.

Waiting to start around Thanksgiving or Zero Chill when I can scoop the deluxe edition for thirty-five or forty bucks sounds ideal. I'm so addicted to this crap, long time between now and June. All my tough talk will inevitably be for nothing when I panic and pre-order to ensure 3 days early access. Probably even burn some PTO launch day, uggh. I'm so pathetic.

peatrick said:

Early Madden is so frustrating. None of the players can catch the darn ball, on offense and defense, the preorder content is often late, if it ever arrives, to the point all the extra money we spend for early bonuses is worthless by the time we actually get cards, such as Rookie Premiers.

Very little has meaningfully changed since 2023, if not longer. In many cases they're reselling us the exact same cards, "Vintage" or From the Vault and I'm dumb enough to keep buying it.

Waiting to start around Thanksgiving or Zero Chill when I can scoop the deluxe edition for thirty-five or forty bucks sounds ideal. I'm so addicted to this crap, long time between now and June. All my tough talk will inevitably be for nothing when I panic and pre-order to ensure 3 days early access. Probably even burn some PTO launch day, uggh. I'm so pathetic.

LOL!

peatrick said:

Early Madden is so frustrating. None of the players can catch the darn ball, on offense and defense, the preorder content is often late, if it ever arrives, to the point all the extra money we spend for early bonuses is worthless by the time we actually get cards, such as Rookie Premiers.

Very little has meaningfully changed since 2023, if not longer. In many cases they're reselling us the exact same cards, "Vintage" or From the Vault and I'm dumb enough to keep buying it.

Waiting to start around Thanksgiving or Zero Chill when I can scoop the deluxe edition for thirty-five or forty bucks sounds ideal. I'm so addicted to this crap, long time between now and June. All my tough talk will inevitably be for nothing when I panic and pre-order to ensure 3 days early access. Probably even burn some PTO launch day, uggh. I'm so pathetic.

This is me. 🤦🏻‍♂️