彭博社报道，Electronic Arts（EA）将关闭《质量效应》和《龙腾世纪》的开发商BioWare，并裁减约400个职位，约占员工总数的3%。下一款《质量效应》游戏和一个计划中的《模拟人生》项目已被取消。EA于8月通过一笔550亿美元的收购交易实现私有化。
Electronic Arts will close BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and cut about 400 jobs, roughly 3% of staff, Bloomberg reported. The next Mass Effect game and a planned Sims project are cancelled. EA went private in a $55B buyout in August.
彭博社周三报道，Electronic Arts将关闭《质量效应》和《龙腾世纪》游戏的开发商BioWare，并裁减约400个职位。处于早期开发阶段的下一款《质量效应》游戏已被取消。
Electronic Arts will shut down BioWare, the studio behind the Mass Effect and Dragon Age games, and cut about 400 jobs, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The next Mass Effect game, which was in early development, has been cancelled.
据一位知情人士向彭博社透露，此次裁员约占EA员工总数的3%，其中包括BioWare约50名员工。GamesRadar报道，BioWare在网上发布声明称：“写下这些文字绝非易事。”
The cuts amount to about 3% of EA’s staff, including around 50 people at BioWare, a person familiar with the plans told Bloomberg. “There is nothing easy about writing those words,” BioWare said in a statement posted online, GamesRadar reported.
此次裁员发生在EA通过由沙特阿拉伯公共投资基金主导的550亿美元收购交易实现私有化两个月后。彭博社称，该交易使EA背负了约180亿美元的债务。EA曾告诉投资者，计划节省高达7亿美元，部分通过削减研发成本来实现。
The layoffs come two months after EA went private in a $55B buyout led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The deal put around $18B in debt on EA’s books, Bloomberg said. EA had told investors it planned to save up to $700M, partly by cutting research and development costs.
据彭博社报道，首席运营官David Tinson和首席工作室官Cam Weber在致员工信中写道：“过去几个月，我们对业务进行了深入审视。”
“Over the past several months, we’ve taken a hard look at our business,” chief operating officer David Tinson and chief studios officer Cam Weber wrote to staff, according to Bloomberg.
EA将继续投资其体育游戏、射击游戏《Apex英雄》、下一款《星球大战：绝地》游戏以及一款新的《钢铁侠》游戏。彭博社称，其Respawn和DICE工作室将合作开发一个新项目，很可能是另一款《星球大战：前线》游戏。
EA will keep investing in its sports games, the shooter Apex Legends, the next Star Wars Jedi game and a new Iron Man game. Its Respawn and DICE studios will work together on a new project, likely another Star Wars: Battlefront game, Bloomberg said.
EA还取消了代号为“Project Lotus”的《模拟人生》游戏，并将缩减其滑板游戏《skate》背后的团队规模。
EA also cancelled a Sims game code-named Project Lotus and will shrink the team behind its skateboarding game, skate.
BioWare成立于1995年，2007年被EA收购，曾推出《质量效应2》等热门作品。但近期作品，包括《圣歌》和《龙腾世纪：影障守护者》，表现令人失望。在《影障守护者》销售未达预期后，EA去年已大幅削减了该工作室的人员。
BioWare, founded in 1995 and bought by EA in 2007, made hits such as Mass Effect 2. But recent games, including Anthem and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, disappointed. EA cut the studio’s staff sharply last year after Veilguard missed sales targets.
PIF 已拥有 Savvy Games，据报道一直在权衡将其与 EA 合并。其他大型发行商也在收缩：6 月，三家 Xbox 工作室正在商谈分拆而非关闭。
PIF already owns Savvy Games, and has reportedly weighed merging it with EA. Other big publishers are cutting back too: in June, three Xbox studios were negotiating to spin off rather than close.