In a stunningly bleak encapsulation of the current state of the video game industry, EA has laid off an Apex Legends writ🐲er just 24 hours after she had been writing for over a year.

A Bloomberg report surfaced on Tuesday that claimed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:EA had laid off betweeꦬn 30ꦓ0 and 400 workers, and Apex Legends studio Respawn soon confirmed that it had been impacted by the do🍃wnsizing.

EA also confirmed that an unspecified number of employees had been let go asﷺ part of an effort that "allocates resources in service of driving 🔥future growth." Bleck.

We've now heard from a specific employee who was made redundant just one day after EA revealed the Apex Legends charac🅷ter she wrote, the new sha🐻rpshooter Sparrow.

, now-♐former narrative de🅺signer Heather Woodward was celebrating the launch of her character, who she had been writing "for well over a year," and who she referred to as "my first born." Today, she shared a screenshot of a marketing email promoting Sparrow sent the very day she was laid off.

"I mean it's objectively pretty funny to get a promo email for the charac🌳ter I wrote the day I'm let go," she said on .

Talk about rubbing salt into the wound. Gꦰiven the circumstances, I'm in awe of Woodward's composure here. If I was in the same situation, I'm really not sure I'd be able to indulge in the painful irony with the sort of grace and humility on display in her🌊 social media posts.

"Well, this is awkward but… I was just mass-downsized at Respawn," she said after learning of her position's redundancy. "These things hap❀pen and my time with Apex has been a top to bottom blast, my favorite job I've ever had. It's been a true joy to write Sparrow, I'll continue to be insufferable about him for weeks to come."

Helldivers 2 CEO says industry layoffs have seen "very little accountability" from executives who "let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions."