Massive Layoffs At Trion Today? Defiance Affected?

[Candlebox]

Rift was not affected by the layoffs.
http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...ml#post4248960

[RegularX]

Rift was not affected by the layoffs.
http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...ml#post4248960

The in-between the lines read seem to indicate it was very targeted at the Defiance team.

[ironhands]

You're making way too much sense to work in the games industry

I've worked in the film industry, retail, customer service, and I code games on the side. Lotta hats over the years lol

But you're right, they did make a lot of sales, they didn't hold on to many of the players though, and that's mostly due to the bugs forcing the DLC delay. People got bored without that DLC pack showing up the same day as the show. It's the first DLC that will really seal the fate of this game, more than anything else. If it's good, people will likely return, if not, oh well, that's the state of the industry. People don't seem to have the attention span to stick with any game for more than a little while any more. How many MMOs have really been a hit since Rift, which was really the last of the traditional sub based MMOs as far as I'm concerned. Look how fast TSW and SWTOR switched models - which was likely planned. Hell, Amalur didn't even make it to release, and most of the beta or recent F2P are all pretty boring, even ESO doesn't look that great IMO.

MMOs are over, unless someone can come up with something very revolutionary.

[Raepok]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Game over man!!!!!!!!!

[DaMaJaDiZ]

Why? It won't get worse, you can't get worse than bankrupt.

That depends on who's money it was that you lost. Ha!

[Dazz]

This thread reminds me of my CS AP class in highschool where everybody was like "Yay, big group project" and I was like "WTF is wrong with you people who code like freaking monkeys, it's easier to rewrite the entire program rather than debug your ****."

LMAO, IKR? Been there more times than I can count :P

[ironhands]

That depends on who's money it was that you lost. Ha!

True enough. Some guy in the next city from here just got whacked for a debt. We don't get many murders in this country.

[jarrodlovesmusic]

Couldn't this just mean they have mostly finished the DLC planned for this season and can't have a bunch of people sitting around waiting for season 2 DLC to start? Lays offs after a game has shipped are pretty common and it has been explained by devs in the past the progression of DLC is how they keep devs working when main chunk of game is done.

ok if that is true and they were just "laid off" then why did they need to "escorted" off the premises, kinda extreme don't you think?

[Booshy]

Considering the brutally slow pace of fixes, improvements and real content being added to the game, I can't even imagine how things are going to go now.

[Anderson]

This thread reminds me of my CS AP class in highschool where everybody was like "Yay, big group project" and I was like "WTF is wrong with you people who code like freaking monkeys, it's easier to rewrite the entire program rather than debug your ****."

In all my years of schooling I never understood the thought process behind assigning group projects.

In theory it's supposed to teach you how to work with other people, but what it really teaches you is how to shift your workload onto others.