Known for its racing games studio Codemasters faced with dismissal after the cancellation of rally simulators for Electronic Arts. Recall, Codemasters I entered the composition EA In 2021, and her only rally under the new leadership was EA Sports WRC 2023. The other day, the authors reported the cessation of partnership EA with World Rally Championship, in connection with which all planned franchise projects were frozen.
Apparently, the abolition of Titleov entailed dismissal Codemasters, Although the studio is also entrusted to work on the series F1. In an interview with reporters from VGC representatives Codemasters We clarified that in the near future, in addition to the dismissal, the redistribution of employees will be carried out to other units EA Sports.
As a company, we are constantly developing to satisfy the growing needs of our players and pay more attention to our entire portfolio.
This led us to reduce some positions and redistribute as many employees as possible in accordance with our strategic priorities.
Unnamed representative Codemasters
How many people are affected by the reduction – it is not specified. Recall, for the acquisition Codemasters chapters EA spent 1.2 billion dollars. Even before the completion of the transaction during the discussion of its strategic basis EA She stated that she intends to "create a world leader in the field of racing entertainment and release the relevant games annually".
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EA took up the old again!
Paragraph 1 – redeem the developers studio;
Paragraph 2 – cancel/freeze all the existing studio projects;
Clause 3 – Close the studio.
The difference is that EA used to www.nonukcasinosites.co.uk/review/cosmicslot/ purchase a studio of developers in packs and one of the “purchases” all the same continued to live when the rest were instantly closed and their intellectual property went into oblivion.
And here, the campaign was the only acquisition tried to submit and cut.
In general, the same smallest thing as Dirt Rally 2.0, we will never see again.🥲
This half -dead, as you say, the ballast before the merger with EA made excellent games, and now nothing, released mediocre WRC and that’s it!
Days without abbreviations in game studios: 0.
It definitely works? As if some other people generally write all this and it is not clear for whom, I’m talking about all these "strategic priorities" and the "growing needs of players". This AI writes or there is one template? However, I am infinitely far from business and sales, and therefore all this officialdom always seemed tiring and rather annoying to me, it seems like my brains are powdered and do not say the obvious.
Oh, let’s regret the poor Codmasters … They themselves lay down under the EA Monstra. How many cool racing games after Dirt Rally 2.0 They released? You can only remember a good Grid Legends Simcades and this is the point, everything else is mediocre and uninteresting games. They finished the series F1 no worse than Elektronics their fifa. And according to the reviews of the players and estimates, after F1 2020, the quality of formula games began to only fall.
Project Cars 3 and F&F made Slicly Mad Studios. Slichly Mad Studios was redeemed by Codemasters at the end of the 19th, and the games were released in the mid -20th.
And what does it change? These two games were released in a broken state in August 2020 with a difference of three weeks. Just the fence was more broken than PC3. When releasing these games, Codemaster has already owned SMS, but nothing was done with it. I can assume that the release date of the forcing was registered under the contract, t.To. Initially, the game was generally released in May 2020 simultaneously with the film, but because of the coronavirus the film was postponed to 2021, and the game was postponed to August 2020. And with PC3 what? If the Furious was announced in 2019, then PC3 was announced in 2020, t.e. Already after the purchase. And I have an assumption that PC3 was released at the end of August 2020 to cover the failure from the fast and t.To. In early November 2020 (almost a month after the release of PC3), Codemasters reported that they were trying to buy Take Two, and the failure of the Furious could greatly drop the price of the company. Just later EA came and offered Codemasters more money than Take Two. And I, as a player, do not care what was behind the curtains. Project Cars 3 is a game from SMS, which at that time was a division of Codemasters, and when I launched the game in September 2020, I overtook the bots on Very Hard on a circle of three circles, because the AI in the game is mildly not very, and then, when it was “fixed”, AI began to drive in the snow as an asphalt because “Repaired” it by increasing speed and adhesion. Add to this still problems of balance and design. And I do not think that this can be justified by the fact that the game was done a year before the purchase and a year after the purchase, and not the fact that the game was thrown on sale six months earlier.
Not at the same time. At first, at the beginning of 2019, Dirt Rally 2 came out, then Grid came out at the end of the year 2019, and then Dirt 5 came out at the end of 2020. F1 2020 was still released in 2020, which is considered almost the best F1 from Codemasters at the moment. Yes, and F1 2019 in 2019 was also not bad. Here are just these five listed games were made by five different teams.
And to what rowen I shoved everyone? Indicated that Codemasters independently made passing and medium games on his own?
Because it is obvious that the problem is not in rights to the championship brand, but that the games themselves do not meet EA expectations.
At the moment, there are already two official games on the WRC license – one from Codemster \ EA (EA Sports WRC), the second from KTRASing \ Neocon – WRC Generations. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages (I personally like the codemster more – the details of the tracks are many times higher).
Well, now, it turns out, there will be only one of of.Rally-game.
Project Cars 3 and F&F made Slicly Mad Studios. Slichly Mad Studios was redeemed by Codemasters at the end of the 19th, and the games were released in the mid -20th. So they bought it for 30 million that, by the standards of EA, it is sometimes shaken when walking the shekels from the surrender. Almost at the same time with Grid 2019 and Dirt 5, Dirt Rally 2 came out
Codemasters is not far from light, but you should not shove everything under one comb
The difference here is that, as I previously said, Codemasters themselves came to EA, if you go to the minefield, do not be surprised when your leg is torn off the elbow.
EA Like King Midas, on the contrary, whatever he touches, everything turns into shit
Why can I cancel projects at the official championship, if you can re -register them under an abstract race?
Continuation of partnership with EA means that the next game in the WRC series will be done by another studio.
Grid 2019, Dirt 5, Project Cars 3 and Fast & Furious Crossroads. All these games from the internal studios Codemasters were released before the merger with EA, and, in my opinion, it is necessary to strongly stretch the concept of an excellent game to include them there.
Well, EA decided to buy a half -dead ballast, and it did not take off, so they cut it now. It’s a shame, this is not gloating, Deret (except hardcore) all companies passed.