EA: To Cut 5-11% of Workforce

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As for BF3, I am sure they spent more than they needed to trying to sink the COD series. Sadly I find BF3 less impressive than Bad Company 2. I really enjoyed the multiplayer in BF:BC 2 the maps where mostly good, the destruction was a nice touch and actually useful. I always found if I went on a rampage and built up enough momentum you could get some serious damage in while BF3 it never feels like I am getting very far before being picked off.

I seriously hope the next BF is back to Bad Company TBH.

I love both, but BC2 felt like the console was being used to its limits to provide an awesome spectical. BF3 feels like the game reached the limits of consoles and had to be gimped. (I have it on PC, and there are major differences)

So I don't think you are alone in your thoughts.

For me personally, BF3 is a true return to BF2 roots and I love it on PC and 360.

If EA's devs want to push the technology boundries (Like DICE) then there is a risk that console games will suffer. A new generation of hardware is the medicine for a end of current generation fever.

[Team Andromeda]

I think with BF3 they expected it to make bigger in roads against COD than it did. EAs never been shy of aiming for impossible targets now and then rather than try and identify an emerging game type and dominate that instead

True, but didn't BF 3 sell millions and millions of copies ? . I just think EA are using that as an excuse and these cuts were coming anyway . I think EA just bought to many studios in too small of an time frame and the wage bill as come to bite them on the bum.
Its seems to me that its only Ubisoft that seems to be a gaming studio that expands in the right way

[PeteJ]

BF3 was one of the best selling games of 2012 so it did well, but I guess with that insane marketing budget and development costs it needed to perform better. Althogh I believe EA have defended the news by saying they aren't actually cutting their workforce at all, so whatever.

Like Felix I thought BF BC2 was the better game, far more polished and balanced and with more good maps out of the box. BF3, even on the PC (which is much better than the console version), was a huge letdown.

Both BF3 and ME3 felt like weak updates to previous classics. I don't know if EA are the reason, but in both cases it's like they've tried too hard to bring in new customers and harmed the product in return.

[Neon Ignition]

Yup BF3s sales were the highest of the series so far I think but they didnt affect CODs. EA seemed to simply spend far too much money on trying to get COD players to migrate. With a better marketing push itd probably have been a tidy earner

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Both BF3 and ME3 felt like weak updates to previous classics. I don't know if EA are the reason, but in both cases it's like they've tried too hard to bring in new customers and harmed the product in return.

Despite loving both BF3 and ME3 I have to say I agree with you. The only thing to add, is that it might be that my expectations were too high. I feel UC2->UC3 got unfairly bashed by some people, as they had expected an UC1-UC2 type of leap. (I also loved UC3!)

Battlefield still gets me playing, and I love especially the open desert maps, but the SP was a big let down compared to BC2, which no one seems to give enough credit.