EA pulls the plug on Apex Legends Mobile and the planned mobile version of its Battlefield franchise, as mobile remains a hard market to crack for the company
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @damianburns and @ethangach Tweets: Damian Burns / @damianburns : 'There's cognitive dissonance in the desire to unite global gaming communities around core IP versus the reality of that IP not always translating so well across platforms' https://www.wsj.com/... @ethangach : Apparently EA was willing to pre-brief VentureBeat on the mobile cancellations and Industrial Toys closure, but would not say how many people will be laid off at the studio over the publisher's botched mobile plans. https://venturebeat.com/...
Ooof! #EA will kill both #ApexLegendsMobile and #BattlefieldMobile. That didn't last long - two more in a growing list of live service titles being killed this year already. The GaaS business can be brutal. 😑 #gamedev https://twitter.com/...
'There's cognitive dissonance in the desire to unite global gaming communities around core IP versus the reality of that IP not always translating so well across platforms' https://www.wsj.com/...
Electronic Arts announced it is canceling its Apex Legends Mobile and Battlefield Mobile games. And as a result, it is shutting down its Industrial Toys game studio. https://venturebeat.com/...
Apparently EA was willing to pre-brief VentureBeat on the mobile cancellations and Industrial Toys closure, but would not say how many people will be laid off at the studio over the publisher's botched mobile plans. https://venturebeat.com/...
Apex Legends Mobile & Battlefield both are shutting down their servers... for all those asking why we haven't invested in that ecosystem yet, we need to be sure about the future of a title before we put any eggs in that basket 😰 https://venturebeat.com/...