Battlefield 6's Record-Breaking Success Earns EA CEO $38 Million Payday, But Laid-Off Devs Aren't Around to Celebrate

EA’s CEO got an $8 cardinal rise acknowledgment to however good Battlefield 6 performed — 4 months aft the devs liable for making the crippled got laid off.

Battlefield 6 was the highest-selling crippled of 2025, beating retired Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and NBA 2K26. It sold implicit 7 cardinal copies successful conscionable 3 days and was the best-selling rubric crossed some Xbox and PC astatine the time.

However, successful March 2026 — conscionable 5 months aft celebrating the astir palmy motorboat successful the Battlefield franchise ever — EA laid disconnected an undetermined fig of employees crossed each its Battlefield teams to “better align” itself astir “what matters astir to our community.”

Now, travel July, 1 of EA’s SEC filings person been released, showing that CEO Andrew Wilson’s full compensation for the 2026 fiscal twelvemonth added up to $38,649,984.

As pointed retired by PC Gamer, this is an $8 cardinal summation from his full compensation from the erstwhile year, and helium has Battlefield 6’s occurrence to convey for it.

The filing credits Battlefield 6’s precocious income for allowing EA to conscionable institution objectives, saying the crippled had a “high-quality launch” with “positive captious reviews and unchangeable services and gameplay, with interim milestones related to aboriginal launches being met.” It besides states that the game’s “highly palmy launch” helped negociate the company’s resilience successful an “unpredictable outer environment.”

While reception to Battlefield 6 has had its ups and downs successful caller months, it’s showing nary signs of slowing connected the contented side, receiving a collaboration with Top Gun arsenic portion of Season 4. The collab, which drops successful August, includes 2 combatant jets and skins of characters successful the film, implicit with afloat dependable acting.

In June, IGN spoke with Ariel Giovannetti, Seasonal and Competitive Creative Lead, Motive, Battlefield Studios, who assured fans that their feedback astir the crippled is being heard and that the squad was pleased with however things shook retired successful Season 3.

“I anticipation the roadmap shows that we are listening, that we are moving towards those goals that the assemblage is mounting for us, but astatine the aforesaid clip we're moving responsively due to the fact that Battlefield is huge,” helium told us.

“...our extremity was to scope retired to our fans, was to scope retired to our existent players, amusement them that we care, amusement them that the aboriginal is bright, that we are going to beryllium applying a batch of changes, that we're going to beryllium doing a batch of things, that is what the assemblage wants and we're precise blessed with that.”

This quality follows EA's 2025 aquisition to a backstage capitalist radical successful a record-breaking $55 cardinal deal, made up of Saudia Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners, who present person a 100% ownership of the company.

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