Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed. The writer was one of around 100 at Respawn Entertainment that was part of a larger EA layoff affecting many others
Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed. The writer was one of around 100 at Respawn Entertainment that was part of a larger EA layoff affecting many others
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Sounds like something EA would do
Eventually no one will want to get hired by EA
All the Titanfall players playing Apex Legends while asking for more Titanfall will surely be mad.
Fucking hate this shit so much. It’s infuriating.
It’s as if companies like EA shouldn’t exist.
As a creative person I don’t even know how I’d move on after this. I am way too sensitive to make my art my job.
Typical EA.
ea staying classy I swear they compete with ubisoft for the scumbag award
> Heather Woodward, a now-former narrative designer at Respawn, was laid off a literal day after the character she’d spent a whole year writing debuted.
>On April 28, Apex Legends introduced a new character by the name of Sparrow
> Then, on April 29, the layoffs hit and Woodward discovered she’d been caught in the wave of sacrifices
EA is trash
I never worked in the video game industry but damn it seems brutal.
Oh that is scummy.
I think RIOT did the same with LoL. They laid off the Person who made the character Smolder while he was on their Testserver and a week before he released. He had also finished the work on a rework character that came out a month later I think.
She’ll have a good resume, hopefully. Other bad news “[Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of employees and cancels 2 ‘incubation projects’ including a new Titanfall game](https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/electronic-arts-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees-and-cancels-2-incubation-projects-including-a-new-titanfall-game/)”
I worked as a product manager in the games industry for a while before leaving a year ago. At one startup that was struggling, the CEO kept pushing for urgent updates and short term revenue pushes to try and stay afloat. Without going into detail, he wanted one particular feature within a week. I told him we would start on it but even pushing off other work we couldn’t do it in time, that the team was already burned out and that was too tight a turnaround .
One junior engineer decided to pick it up and work all weekend on it, and got it out the door by Tuesday when he wanted. She was congratulated and celebrated and we shipped it on time after all.
She was laid off the next day along with dozens of others.
EA, Ubisoft and Nintendo
The top 3 corporations we should all hate
I’m sorry, but this whole piece reads like someone who graduated college ten minutes ago with a liberal arts degree, their friend just got fired, and now they’re using their platform to incite gamers because they just figured out how the real world works.
I’m honestly shocked to hear that companies are still firing after the start of this year. Seeing how we had more firings in like the first few months than the entirety of 2024, t’s actually insane.
Did anyone else read that “Statement” from Respawn?
Hilarious word salat corporate speak that basically says nothing but the message is “we gonna fire a bunch of people and the next game is 90 bucks so fuck you”
They lay off people to “save money” but the price of games keeps going up
So who’s getting the money?
I am sure many people worked on the character
I dont understand why people even apply for jobs at ea or ubi
And this is why company loyalty is dead. Getting laid off the very instant you finish the project is wild
I love Apex but hate EA. was really looking forward to this new legend.
Yeah, thems the breaks bruh. Thats how a layoff works. Highly doubt she’s the sole worker for that character project. This reads like an angry self post that you/your friend wrote. Next.
Welcome to capitalism, where workers are disposable and have no rights over anything they create.
Time for tech unions to actually start forming and get representation.
Oh hey, I wasn’t the only person laid off yesterday. Cool!
I read that they even canceled a Titan Fall game
Is no one going to talk about the bigger story? This is a result of political decisions.
The lack of employment laws in the US baffles me, how are there so many working class people yet no one seems to campaign on strengthening employment laws and stopping the horrendous levels of inequality.
Apex bans their players at random, glad to see that they band their workers the same way. Get bent EA.
I heard they are rebranding to EatAss
I can see why she was fired, generic character and lackluster story.
I’m glad I don’t play this game anymore. EA didn’t deserve my time playing it.