Electronic Arts: Tweet allegedly causes drama among employees

Electronic Arts recently made a post about foreign shame on Twitter. This not only caused eye rolls and malice on the net. The post is also said to have caused tension in the publisher’s in-house studios.

The subject of the tweet? single player games, which EA apparently mocked with a short sentence. And that despite the fact that Respawn is currently working on the sequel Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order works, one of the most popular AAA single player titles in recent years. the next part Star Wars Jedi: Suvivoris expected for 2023.

Developers and executives at Electronic Arts were reportedly upset

“They’re a 10 but they play single player games,” it read the controversial tweet, which was posted last week via the official Electronic Arts Twitter account. Many Players were outragedAfter all, the publisher hadn’t shown a good hand with single-player titles in the past.

The studio as early as the early 2010s Doubts about the future of single player games voiced. As a result, the focus was mainly on multiplayer titles that could come up with unpopular monetization systems. To all this, EA had closed some popular developers of single player games, such as Bullfrog Productions, Maxis Software or most recently Visceral Games, which, among other things, for DeadSpace was known.

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The tweet not only caused turmoil among the players, but allegedly also among the EA employees. According to one report, the tweet was written by an outside group who probably didn’t know much about EA’s past or the gaming industry in general.

Numerous employees are said to have discussed the post internally and some social media managers are said to have even planned to reply to the tweet via EA Studios’ Twitter accounts.

However, these plans are said to have been dropped after further talks. The employees had come to the conclusion that such an approach would backfire and negative reputation of EA would reinforce. Electronic Arts is now said to be holding conversations with employees and executives who found the tweet to be an insult to their work.