Well obviously the high payed managers would be let go, right?
Star Trek Online and Neverwinter MMO devs Cryptic are the next Embracer-owned studio to suffer layoffs
Submitted 7 months ago by Goronmon@kbin.social to games@lemmy.world
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netburnr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Callendor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can’t leave the one engineer left on 40k manage himself. Need an 120k manager to look after him
senorblackbean@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Someone please buy the rights to City of Heroes and boot it back up.
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 7 months ago
WildStar!
GhostMatter@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It’s unsurprising, particularly the lateral move to DECA Games. It was an easy target for Embraced to cut costs, plus their last game was cancelled before release (Magic: Legends). It seems like the Cryptic engine would require a large investment to be used for new games, but I might be wrong.
Lath@kbin.social 7 months ago
Wow. Star Trek Online is an embarassment as it is now, now they want to make it worse?
Guess i should get ready for its shutdown... Couple of years from now when its been milked dry by the zen currency bots.HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 months ago
Never played it, but seen the ads - what makes it so bad?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Almost everything that made the game great has been gutted over the years.
They removed not only the ability to make new user made maps and scenarios but removed all content related to the function saying it would essentially require requiring the game from scratch because no one was left that knew how it worked.
Many of the missions have been removed over the years, saying they no longer are good enough quality compared to new content, etc.
Everything is a shadow of what it was. And everything is micro transactions now.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
I’ve played it for a bit, didn’t like the controls - felt pretty clunky, like the camera controls in particular. Still, better than SWTOR though.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I swear it seemed like they only had a skeleton crew already to do basic maintenance and bare minimum “new” content. Who could they even afford to still layoff without shutting everything down? The janitorial staff?
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They’ve cut down to one man, and half a hamster.
Don’t ask about the hamster.
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
They had to lay off half the hamster 😔