Calling it now, Trion will dissolve by September

[Era]

There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for all the layoffs. Someone in charge finally tried to play the game.

[Unsent Soul]

Its Common sense

Troll of the day award! Plus 10 internets to this guy

/sarcasm

[Grant]

I'm putting my prediction down for you all to see, actually this is more common sense at this point.

Trion will no longer be a game dev studio by September.

Why?

- massive layoffs (none of those people will be brought back)
- trion does a horrible job of communicating with it's community and recognizing wants
- rift going free to play (they will no longer have a steady source of income)
- defiance has sold horribly and will continue that streak
- defiance has no long term replayability for a player base to survive
- game devs simply can not code, this game breaks more than it fixes
- game devs will now be patching at a even slower rate due to staff cuts
- bit sales will continue to drop off and all profit will be made off dlc, which won't be enough

#truth

Thank you for your understanding

Yes,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Much appreciate that. I'll try to get ego 5000 till August/September.

[ryzo]

But yet you took the time to reply!

Thank you for your contribution towards my topic!

But YET you took the time to play the game and write on the forums thank you for your contrubution to a game that in your eyes is dead in the water..........bloody idiot

[Jamescrow]

trion decide to move the game to f2p and if a company doing this for paying game (and not because they dont have players) ithink trion here to stay.

[Anderson]

Lot of MBAs on this forum.

[DieselBt]

I'm not sure I can entirely agree with that. If massive layoffs were always a precursor to closures, then EA is due to fold relatively soon. SWTOR is F2P now, and they also recently laid off a very large number of their employees.

Perhaps that's not the best example, since EA has other cashflow... I'm certain that Trion has a lot of funding through SyFy and the Dodge sponsorship.

I'll be honest: I don't want you to be right, because it's always sad to see game companies, regardless of size, close. Trion is working hard to improve Defiance as quickly as possible. Here's what I forsee: The game will flounder a bit until the majority of the biggest bugs are squashed. Unfortunately, a lot of players won't have the patience to wait, and will leave for pastures that are currently brighter. There will be a dip in active players until the major DLC is released. Word will get out about the new content as well as the improvements in the overall game itself. Trion will drop the retail price of the game, further enticing some players to return, and new ones to join.

At the very least, Defiance the game will remain open as long as the show continues to air and get good viewership numbers in the teen to thirtysomething age range.

That's my two cents, but I don't guarantee they'll spend well!

[baelrusk]

With the layoffs I can get one scenario in mind.

They are trying to make an attempt to salvage things as a company.

[Linamaria]

I'm putting my prediction down for you all to see, actually this is more common sense at this point.

Trion will no longer be a game dev studio by September.

Why?

- massive layoffs (none of those people will be brought back)
- trion does a horrible job of communicating with it's community and recognizing wants
- rift going free to play (they will no longer have a steady source of income)
- defiance has sold horribly and will continue that streak
- defiance has no long term replayability for a player base to survive
- game devs simply can not code, this game breaks more than it fixes
- game devs will now be patching at a even slower rate due to staff cuts
- bit sales will continue to drop off and all profit will be made off dlc, which won't be enough

#truth

Thank you for your understanding

Ok. I got it, you are concerned and worried. What you gonna do to help Trion now?

[Avril Parker]

Only things true because one's saying they're true is the truth I say is true.