Although it has always won the hearts of many players since its launch, the Electronic Arts title seems to be in very bad shape…
In February, Respawn Entertainment studio officials said they wanted keep Apex Legends alive for 20 years, I’m not sure they can do that…
Apex Legends: Is this the beginning of the end for EA’s Battle Royale?
In fact, as Kotaku and Insider Gaming recently reported, the American publisher is said to have fired more than 200 of its QA (Quality Assurance) testers who worked on the game and officiating in the offices of Baton Rouge. As a reminder, this same studio was also involved in the development of Battlefield 2042 in particular.
According to information shared by Tom Henderson, EA would not have been tactful in announcing the bad news… The employees would have been summoned to a “compulsory Zoom meeting”, with the simple subject “Site closed”. Even the address of the Baton Rouge studio would not have been filled in beforehand…
According to some journalistic sources, the reason given to explain such a wave of layoffs would be the desire to “end manual testing operations at EABR”. On the other hand, this would not necessarily mean that all activities of this type will cease, since these same developers would have trained new colleagues from the offices based in the UK and Romania.
Likewise, we learned that EA will deliver applications for quality control tester positions in different parts of the world.
Based on your information, Can we logically wonder about the future of Apex Legends? Will the tests be entrusted to other teams? Or will there be no more tests at all? We’ll have to wait and see what it will be the next decisions and announce the future of the game…