Carighan MaconarMar 9

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN

https://piefed.world/c/games/p/936468/ea-lays-off-staff-across-all-battlefield-studios-following-record-breaking-battlefield-6

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN

Always fun to develop a record-selling game. You lose your job as a thanks! 🤮

Show threadjballsMar 9

Battlefield 6 was the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025.

Wow that’s surprising to me considering how it required Secure Boot enabled, which bricked a lot of people’s PCs. I installed the beta for my son and thought “there’s no fucking way the average gamer is going to be able to do this.”

Show threadproleMar 10

bricked a lot of people’s PCs

Did the definition of “brick” in this context change recently, or did secure boot literally destroy people’s hardware?

Show threadjballs
I had to put a jumper on the motherboard to do a hard BIOS reset on my son’s PC, and format the hard drive and do a fresh OS install. There are reddit threads and YouTube videos of people doing the same. I consider that bricked, but I suppose your definition could be more extreme.
Mar 10 at 1:58pmWeb
Show threadproleMar 10
I didn’t know it was that bad. I have seen people using brick to mean they just had to reinstall the OS