EA Get Brutally Slammed After Laying Off Battlefield 6 Devs Despite Game's Record-Breaking Success

TL;DR

EA laid off developers across all Battlefield studios despite the game selling 20 million copies and becoming the best-selling game of 2025.

Key Points

• 1.Battlefield 6 sold 7 million copies in 3 days, eventually reached 20 million copies sold, peaked at 747,440 concurrent Steam players, and became the first Battlefield to outsell Call of Duty.
• 2.At $70 per copy, base game sales alone approach $1.4 billion in revenue — excluding all live service microtransaction income on top of that.
• 3.EA laid off staff across four studios: Criterion, DICE, Ripple Effect, and Motive — calling it a "realignment" to better serve the community.
• 4.EA had internally set a target of 100 million players — three times the series record — meaning even record-breaking success fell short of executive expectations.
• 5.Critics argue the layoffs destroy institutional knowledge, bleed industry talent, and prove developers are unsafe regardless of whether they ship a flop or a bestseller.