HomeNewsApex Legends
The lay offs took place over a Zoom call, after a night shift
Apex Legends Is Fast, Fluid & One Of The Best Battle Royale Games | My Fav Thing In (Apex Gameplay)Watch on YouTube
Apex Legends Is Fast, Fluid & One Of The Best Battle Royale Games | My Fav Thing In (Apex Gameplay)
The 8am Zoom call was reportedly an unscheduled mandatory meeting, taking place just hours after some QA staff finished a night shift. The 200 layoffs account for every QA tester at the Baton Rouge studio, as one former tester took toTwitterto write, “EA just fired its entire Baton Rouge studio, which is essentially their entire Apex Legends QA staff.” They continue to say, “They’ve been slowly hiring at studios elsewhere but none of those people have any experience with the title.”
Affected staff were allowed to collect their belongings from the studio and are getting 60 days severance pay, but Kotaku claims many tester’s contracts covered a longer length of time that the severance package doesn’t account for.
In a statement, EA didn’t directly address the layoffs, but they sheepishly explained that the change “enables us to increase the hours per week we’re able to test,” as testing for Apex Legends will be decentralised and spread out to other teams. EA’s full statement can be read below:
These layoffs mirror last year’s cuts at EA’s customer service teams based in Austin - work that was also outsourced to global teams in Europe and India.
This comes not long after EA shuttered the mobile port of Apex Legends, and suspended development on a Battlefield mobile port. The publisher alsocancelled a single-player gameset in theTitanfalland Apex Legends universe for unknown reasons.
