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This news is regarding the recently applied...

I'm not going to name the guy, but you can see it in the article as well.

But the EU decided to award a CEO $38 million in compensation package for a successful fiscal year in 2026.

Now, one of the main reasons, if you remember from 2026, this year itself, the biggest releases from EU has been Battlefield 6, which basically...

Definitely outshined its contemporaries like Call of Duty and etc.

And it's one of the strongest launch in the franchise history.

You know, it's creating some of the massive performance.

But at the same time, what do we also know about Battlefield 6 developers is that they got fired as well.

So how is it that a CEO makes like $38 million celebrating the success of Battlefield 6 while at the same time laying off the people who made that possible?

Yeah, I don't know how...

I don't know, man.

I guess we just don't have the mindset, right? Because to both of us, that sounds crazy, right? It sounds crazy.

You have an amazing team at DICE, Ripple Effect, Criterion, and Ridgeline, right? They've contributed to multiple Battlefield games.

And they really... stuck the landing for Battlefield 6 for them and rather than not even a good job and pat on the back it's a pack your bags you're done and like just cutting numerous people from all those studios like it's just it's crazy and then to sit there and turn around and say we've had the best fiscal year In a long time, this is the best battlefield launch that we've had in a long time.

CEO, you're getting a $38 million compensation package.

Jeez,

man.

It doesn't make sense, man.

It really doesn't.

Like a CEO's performance bonus is supposed to reflect how the company did, right? And you can't tell me a company did good while at the same time, like you have, like it's not just the battlefield people either, right? It's like Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, Motive, Ridgeline.

Like a lot of these people who were kind of making some of the anticipated games, even like, you know, the back office people like recruitment, customer support and IT, all of these people were also found without jobs.

How can you like, you know, sit with one face? and say hey we need to make some serious cost cutting here while at the same time like pay your ceo 260 times more than any of your median salary like you know employee salary like that is like like you know you know me i'm like the most pro-capitalist person you'll ever be right like i'm i'm okay with giving ceo their dues and i said i'm always supportive of you know supporting the local ceo Support your local mom and pop CEO here, okay? They have to pull up with their golden bootstraps or whatever the phrase that goes.

You can compensate whatever you want, but at the same time, it needs to reflect the overall health of the company.

But you cannot tell me a company that is canceling projects left and right, laying off studios.

And losing licenses like FIFA and etc.