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And last bit of the new update season, a couple of weeks later, Carrier Assault, or called Carrier Strike.

So a lot of people like it from what I've seen, and I know that DICE mentioned, or Battlefield Studios in this case, they mentioned that they're gonna keep this mode until the end of the season, so that's great.

That's nice.

But from what I ex- like, from what I read.

Hold on.

I've seen, at Dice, we used to have Slideware.

It's software that you can just make on PowerPoint.

It's awesome.

And Ranked for Battlefield was always on there.

It never usually got off the door.

Remember, we actually tried to do Ranked for Battlefield 1 in a small 5v5 format that was out of Dice LA.

That did not succeed in the way we had hoped.

morning chatter netters and folks hello good morning good morning ladies and gentlemen uh welcome welcome uh first off happy national preparedness month uh happy national hispanic hispanic heritage month um september is also national uh suicide prevention month as well as childhood cancer awareness month so check in with people um that you haven't heard from in a while and uh yeah let's spread some awareness of childhood cancer so we can kick cancer's ass i am your lovely host the one and only friendly neighborhood atomic squid Today, we have quite a show.

We will be talking about the layoffs that EA is doing to DICE, or, sorry, has done to DICE.

This was a topic that was recommended by MasterBeef, so shout out to him for that.

We will also be talking about GTA 6, and boy, do we have a lot to talk about with that topic.

But just like a bloodhound, I'm locked in and I'm ready to punch this punching bag that we call electronic arts.

So the start, the beginning of this is, EA has paid its CEO, Andrew Wilson, $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well.

And this all comes right after laying off staff and workers at DICE.

We're off to a great start with the story.

Let's do this.

Let's get this shit going, Dice.

Come on.

You have already opened Pandora's box now since you've decided to do this.

Unity, because everyone hates Unity now.

No, more the, more of like, I guess kind of like what Dice did with Frostbite or what EA did with Frostbite.

Like, they wanted the engine to be going out to different studios to use to make stuff, but it's still all under the same publisher.

That kind of approach.

But what's the damage done?

Uh, well, it just, it lost faith in, like, DICE, EA, and all that kind of stuff.

And, like, as you said, like, it, it changed policies governmentally, like, especially throughout Europe.

I'm not sure how it was in the States or anything like that, but, like, people were actively, like, going against it essentially because it was just, "This is threatening.

But I think in single player you can...

Somewhat get used to the controls in general, you know when you have vehicles and all of that You can practice a little bit more there than in a static gun range, for example, but it's not necessary I mean like I said if if the single-player shit no one cares about it and Yeah, why produce it? Why waste that resource? into something that you're probably not even happy with yourself, right? Because I'm pretty sure that no one at DICE or whoever made the single player looks at it and says, oh, yeah, we've done a good job.

This is really fun, you know? we both know and we've heard leaks and stuff like that that um the single player was in a very rough state and uh they're not even sure if they're going to release it like that and i think they're some studio close to something if i remember correctly before and they're completely

yeah before the yeah and they completely overhauled or

You can put organized teams and everything, the spectator mode is finally coming too.

So they're slowly, slowly bringing that back.

And I'm really curious, like, I personally don't know if the server browser means anything, but people really want server browser, and DICE is working on a server browser.

Yeah, but I'm not just talking about server browser.

It's always, we're always one snap, step away [laughs] from the Snoop Dogg crossover, okay?

I think, I think, I think DICE and EA has kinda learned their lesson a little bit when they saw the reaction t- at the start of, like, the launch, and then they, like...

Oh, well, they, they, they definitely changed their direction with the-

Yeah.