Overview

• Development costs have surpassed $400 million, making it the franchise’s most expensive project to date.
• EA’s goal of 100 million players over time is seen by developers as unattainable given past entry metrics.
• Coordination among DICE, Motive, Criterion and Ripple Effect has broken down, leading to missed milestones.
• The single-player campaign is running massively late, risking feature cuts or a large day-one patch.
• Many team members have taken exhaustion leave of weeks to months as EA presses toward an April 2026 launch.