Massive Layoffs At Trion Today? Defiance Affected?

[Sinnafae]

I wonder how many of the people getting a "layoff" were contracted play testers?

[Mike Chone]

Trion, please answer a few questions:

What percentage of QA personnel were laid off?
What percentage of Development personnel were laid off?
What percentage of leadership and management were laid off?

I believe these are fair questions as someone still on the fence about buying a season pass for what could be half assed or non-existent content.

[xxpatrick42xx]

I really dont think you could find anyone to rate the game above 6 , but the important thing is that they are tryiing to fix it so that is playable and so the gamers stay with it .

[baelrusk]

I really dont think you could find anyone to rate the game above 6 , but the important thing is that they are tryiing to fix it so that is playable and so the gamers stay with it .

That's one of the things being hoped for.

Though there are some extremists here who do give it a 10/10 as is.

[LattoMac]

The problem is that no matter how competent any new staff that's brought in might be, the amount of time it can take to get up to speed on the engine, scripting, and assets in place would be substantial. Even assuming everything is well documented -- and I've never personally seen that really be the case -- it's often easier to scrap a project and start over rather than try and fix something that's in-place and a mess. Obviously that's not really an option here, I don't really think Trion is in a position to do a FFXIV-style whole rework even if they wanted to, and I don't think they want to.

I dunno, honestly. I've never worked in game development, but in my experience you don't just bring in new people on a major software project that's mostly finished without expecting to to be a while before they're really up to speed and you can expect meaningful results.

WOW is this guy seriious? facepalm nao

[xxpatrick42xx]

if you ban people that speak their mind about the short coming of the game , there would only be like 6 fanboys left on the site. true most gamers are upset and let down by trion , but they are trying to save the game and keep a few gamers playing it . give the game 6 months and it will be ok

Because really what Trion needs to add to it's PR disasters is to include "banning people on their forums" who are complaining about their game.... many of those complaints have been admitted to by the person in charge of defiance in his numerous..

"We're sorry, but we'll do better from here on out...."
"Oops.. sorry... but from here on out we'll do better."
"Um.. about that.. sorry again... Baby in a corner... we'll do better from here on out."
"Oops.. um.. yeah.. about that.. it's like punching sharks!!!! We'll do better from NOW on."

Messages to the community.

[MacDeath]

Trion, please answer a few questions:

What percentage of QA personnel were laid off?
What percentage of Development personnel were laid off?
What percentage of leadership and management were laid off?

I believe these are fair questions as someone still on the fence about buying a season pass for what could be half assed or non-existent content.

IMO. you as a player don't need to know anything about Trion's staffing. If the game is playable and fun for you, then play it. If it isn't fun, don't play it. They aren't going to provide you with the info you're asking for.

[LattoMac]

Well that's one way to get ride of people whom you don't agree with.

guy that ****** is spreading mis info f2p is free.(bf f2p, tf2 f2p?) pay 2 play is what this game is. In most of the compitent world this is paying for a game is buying to play.agAin ive nvr seen a forum with so mny trollls?! wtf or r they just dumb? 2 much chemicals in the food perhaps

[Josnas]

Not many MMOs have a job posting up for Technical Director up a month and a half after launch.

You know, the guy that oversees the technical delivery and ensures technical quality of the product.

Did they even have a guy in that position to begin with, didn't seem like it to me.

[Justin CarMichael]

I wonder how many of the people getting a "layoff" were contracted play testers?

That's just silly... Trion doesn't have play testers.