Halo Co-Creator Marcus Lehto 'Disappointed' Ridgeline Staff 'Were Not Properly Credited' in Battlefield 6, Says They Built the 'Foundation' of the Game

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has expressed his disappointment that erstwhile unit of the present shuttered Ridgeline Games were not "properly" credited successful Battlefield 6, contempt gathering the "foundation" of the game.

Ridgeline Games, the workplace co-founded by Lehto, was tasked with processing the communicative run successful Battlefield 6. The workplace was closed successful February 2024 pursuing Lehto’s departure — little than 2 years aft it was acceptable up — arsenic portion of a broader restructuring that saw EA laic disconnected immoderate 670 employees and displacement distant from aboriginal licensed IPs. At the time, EA said the enactment that was begun connected the Battlefield single-player run would continue.

Fast guardant to Battlefield 6’s record-breaking release, and Lehto has taken to LinkedIn to admit the enactment done by his erstwhile unit astatine Ridgeline connected the game.

“I’m disappointed to spot that galore of my erstwhile teammates from Ridgeline Games were not decently credited successful the caller merchandise of Battlefield 6,” helium said successful a station that included a database of names nether the Ridgeline Games banner.

“These talented developers worked tirelessly for 1 to 2.5 years, gathering the instauration of the game, earlier I near voluntarily and the workplace was subsequently shuttered. Despite their important contributions, astir who were laid disconnected were relegated to a ‘Special Thanks’ conception astatine the precise extremity of the credits — and respective were omitted entirely, including myself.

“Out of respect for my colleagues and the awesome enactment they poured into this project, I privation to instrumentality a infinitesimal to decently admit them — listing their names and roles arsenic I would person preferred them to look successful the credits.

“Game improvement is simply a squad effort, and each contributor deserves just acknowledgment.”

IGN has asked EA for comment.

Marcus Lehto departed EA, calling the determination a "personal decision."

In an interior enactment issued astatine the clip of Ridgeline’s closure, EA Entertainment president Laura Miele said that Criterion shaper Danny Isaac and workplace caput of originative Darren White would regenerate Lehto to proceed enactment connected the planned communicative campaign, with immoderate members of Ridgeline Games joining Ripple Effect to proceed moving connected Battlefield.

EA would spell connected to denote Battlefield Studios, the four-strong developer corporate moving connected the mega-publisher’s Battlefield franchise. It presently includes DICE, Ripple Effect, Motive, and Criterion.

Lehto is simply a Bungie seasoned whose portfolio includes serving arsenic originative manager connected Halo: Reach. He joined EA successful the aftermath of disapproval implicit Battlefield 2042's deficiency of a single-player communicative campaign.

While Battlefield 6 has enjoyed tremendous income occurrence and won plaudits for its multiplayer, the run was poorly received. IGN’s Battlefield 6 run reappraisal returned a 5/10. We said: “A safe, dull reimagining of what Battlefield erstwhile was, alternatively than a bold reinvention of what it could be.”

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