EA Layoffs, Warhammer Online’s Future Uncertain

Both Kotaku and Bite My Review are reporting that Electronic Arts has laid off as many as 1000 employees worldwide, including 80 of the designers at Mythic Entertainment. This has reportedly put Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning into “maintenance mode”, so, if true, I wouldn’t expect to see major content patches or an expansion pack anytime soon.

Our insiders tell us that EA corporate may be laying off up to 1000 people worldwide, and that the Mythic properties themselves are going into (maintenance mode). Seeing as most of the folks laid off were in the creative departments at Mythic, this makes sense you can’t be producing a new expansion or writing new content if all of your writers are gone.

Word of mouth continues to say that most of the ex-Mythic folks are trying for positions over at Bioware, another EA property, with their unnamed MMO project.

Let’s hope BioWare doesn’t suffer the same fate someday. But what are the odds of that?