Arc Raiders exec says success resulted in burnout: 'We were constantly overshooting our capacity'

Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal told Game Developer at Gamescom that Embark Studios has struggled to balance serving over 16 million players with its own workforce, which he says is "super tired." He said the studio confirmed around four months ago that it would drop monthly updates to ease pressure on the team, and that constant overshooting of capacity plus maintenance work forced content plans to be cut. Grøndal also described taking five months of sick leave from burnout during his 15 years at EA.