Video Game Designer - Chapter 498

Half a month after the multiplayer mode at dawn came online, ea officially announced a major message to the public. As the eo Wilson at the press conference, eo Wilson said that ea will conduct a large-scale layoffs in the near future. A total of 1500 positions in marketing, publishing, operations and some developers.

At present, ea has nearly 10,000 employees worldwide, this time the proportion of layoffs is about 17.

After Wilson said this at the press conference, there was a shock in the game world.

Countless players who follow this news have expressed their shock, or happy emotions.

‘Lying trough, ea pill? Lay off 1,500 people? Activision Blizzard tripled before? ’

‘Ea is ruthless! Has it been disbanded from the studio and turned into a company dissolution? ’

‘Although the hymn is blown up, it’s not like that? ’

‘Ea hurry up and die, free the die. ’

‘First Activision Blizzard, then the ea gaming giant is going lonely? ’

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At the conference of ea, Wilson didn’t care about the people who expressed shock at the following, because the next thing he believed he would announce would definitely surprise them, and also make the group of people on Wall Street more optimistic about the future of ea .

“As a company, we need some important measures to cope with the changing future and challenges. After careful consideration and better fulfilling our commitments and meeting the requirements of players, we made such a difficult decision.”

“But this is not a decision taken lightly, because the layoffs are not only our colleagues, but also our friends, ea is very grateful and cherish everyone’s contribution. We are ensuring that affected employees can spend this period, Help them find their next job opportunity. At present, this is our top priority.”

Wilson said eloquently.

Nothing wrong.

We are friends, and now ea raises you too much money, so we have to fire you.

The sluggish stock price is one of the main reasons for ea’s layoffs. After all, from the initial cooperation with Tianhe Network, the market value reached a new high of 150 US dollars per share. Later, Star Wars 2’s death plummeted to 80 US dollars, although there were later survivors who cooperated with Dawn. The good news is that it has been hovering around $100.

And the recent pre-sale of Hymn has performed well, making ea’s market value once again reach 120 US dollars per share, but now the market value of ea has fallen below 100 US dollars.

After the ea conference was over, the people of Chuhe had arrived in Redwood City and had signed contracts with Fidelity, Pioneer and Logan.

Tianhe Network has acquired 15 shares from each of the three companies with a capital of US$900 million, accounting for 45 of ea’s total shares and becoming the fourth largest shareholder of ea.

At the same time, ea will transfer respanentertant to Tianhe Network at a price of 100 million US dollars, and provide assistance in the development of ea technology.

But for the next three games in Tianhe Network, ea can bring in investment to develop with Tianhe Network.

In terms of the market, Chuhe still takes advantage. On the one hand, although the current market value of ea has fallen, at least $900 million is definitely not available for these 45 shares, and it also has the right to vote. If Pioneer, Fidelity, and Luo If the root is willing, the premium cannot be as much as possible, but there will definitely be someone willing to take the offer.

But this is not the main reason why Chuhe often ea, the real reason for Chuhe often is that ea took out the respanentertant as bait.

This makes it difficult for Chuhe to refuse. It is really difficult to acquire studios of this level and strength.

Today, Chuhe acquired the powerful ones, apart from the newly acquired respanentertant, that is, some members of the Medal of Honor that ea was previously disbanded, some employees of ide, and mines and ruins auctioned after the thq bankruptcy. Too.

If you look closely, it seems that some are usually obtained from the corner of ea’s house.

Chu He could not help but sigh, his fate with ea is really high.

Speaking of respanentertant, their strength is undoubtedly. They created the modern war series of od in one hand, and then jumped out of Activision Blizzard, and then were taken by ea. Respanentertant is not awesome.

But such a promising studio, ea chose to sell to Tianhe Network, the main reason is that they continue to urgently maintain a close relationship with them.

On the other hand, it is because their previous game did not explode as expected. Actually ea had developed a mech-type sci-fi game by using respanentertant before the hymn, but it encountered Waterloo. The word of mouth was very good but the sales were dismal. Counting the global publicity, even the cost is not recovered.

Coupled with the subsequent fall of the hymn, this is one of the reasons why ea decided to sell respanentertant to Tianhe Network.

After all, they have also participated in the development of ea’s Star Wars 2 and Hymn two games before.

Although in essence, this is not a matter of respanentertant, because in Star Wars 2 more operations are blown up.

On the hymn, they only assisted in the development, not the main R&D team.

But for ea, this is obviously not important.

Including the two series of IP “Titanium Fall 1” and “Titanium Fall 2” developed by Respanentertant, ea is also included in the billion dollars and packaged with Tianhe Network to show their sincerity.

The news of Tianhe’s admission to ea is still in a blocked state. At present, only the news that is not very friendly to ea is disclosed, and the reason is unnecessary.

In the internal conference hall of ea, the current equity holders of ea welcomed Chu He.

Although as the current fourth largest shareholder of ea, and also has some voting rights, how much can affect the strategic layout of ea, but Chu He did not intend to manage too much.

After all, ea is not Tianhe Network, ea involves too many things, and Tianhe Network is the boss, he has the final say.

Just like Shengda in China in the early years, as the boss’s boss, he publicly stated that a certain project, the following people only need to do according to his strategic plan.

As for opposition?

At the company’s internal meeting, domineeringly stated: ‘This is not something that you do not agree with, but the question of whoever does not do it. ’

Of course, time later proved that this strategic layout was wrong, at least in the circumstances at that time.

At the same time, Shengda has fallen from the dominance of the domestic Internet and game industry to the fate of being acquired by the younger brother and now the emperor penguin.

If Chuhe expressed in ea, hoping that ea can be like the Tianhe network in the operation of the game, it is really too difficult.

For the acquisition of 45 shares of ea~www.mtlnovel.com~ Chu He is not very excited. For Chu He himself, the technology that ea will provide to Tianhe Network next, and the income of respanentertant, makes Chu more River was excited.

Earlier news about the failure of the ea project, with many ea shareholders to sell cash, and Wilson just said at the press conference that ea will undergo a large-scale layoffs, directly layoffs of 1500 people.

This time ea’s stock price began to fall again. If this project had a bite of ea soup at dawn, then it is estimated that it can’t be stopped now.

“Respanentertant what are the next projects?” Chu He asked Wilson.

Although the contract has already been signed, the specific situation of respanentertant is still negotiated by the people. Chu He only signed it last, and Chu He has not read the report of the specific report of respanentertant. I don’t know if they are currently working on it. Ongoing projects.

“This should ask West and Zampela, they operate independently, we have not interfered with their projects.” Wilson shook his head and said.