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gamasutra消息:假期前人事变动 EA解雇100多名员工

发布时间:2010-10-28 09:53:05 Tags:,,,

日前,有消息指出美国艺电(EA)已裁员100多号人,据称这一举动是EA在假期生产周期前的季节性人事变动。

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据ShackNews报道,一位不愿具名的知情人告诉记者,位于温哥华的EA Canada和EA Black Box两个工作室已有“100多名左右的员工”于昨日被遣散。另外还有一则微博指出,仅EA Canada一个工作室就有100名以上的成员被解雇。

据悉,这一裁员举动将影响《Skate 3》、《EA Sports Active》和《NBA Elite 11》等几款游戏的开发,另有消息源称,《Elite》系列已经移交给EA Tiburon工作室制作,在此之前,该游戏的发行时间已因“游戏玩法优化的考虑”推迟到了2011年。

这是EA公司每年结束假期发行作品开发工作后的一个惯例,在2008年10月曾精减了600人,2009年11月也裁掉了1500名员工。

EA发言人Jeff Brown表示,“游戏开发后的周期性人员调整是正常现象,对保证EA的健康运营关系重大,我们在假期季有很多可发行的游戏作品,所以是时候进行团队规模瘦身了。但EA还在壮大,我们有一些工作室也还在招募更有能力的人才。”(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译)

Reports: EA Lays Off ‘As Many As 100′ In ‘Seasonal Roll-offs’
 
Reports point to layoffs for 100 or more EA employees from around the company — which it says are part of seasonal staffing adjustments following the busy holiday production cycle.

ShackNews cites an unnamed source in reporting that “as many as 100 employees” from Vancouver’s EA Canada and EA Black Box were let go earlier today. A tweet from 3D Realms’ George Broussard places the toll at EA Canada alone at over 100 employees.

The reported layoffs are said to affect teams that worked on games including Skate 3, EA Sports Active and NBA Elite 11. 1UP sources report Elite is being transfered to development at EA Tiburon, after the game was recently delayed to 2011 over “concerns about gameplay polish.”

This latest round of layoffs follows an annual pattern at Electronic Arts of paring down staffing numbers after the bulk of development for the packed holiday release season is done. The publisher let go of 600 employees in October of 2008 and confirmed lay offs for 1,500 last November.

“As you know, seasonal roll-offs that follow game launches are common and vital to maintaining a healthy business,” EA spokesperson Jeff Brown told Joystiq in a statement. “Because so many of our games ship in the holiday quarter, the team size adjustments tend to follow in the same timeframe. However, EA is growing and several of our studios are looking to hire talented people.”(source:gamasutra)


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