Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected

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• graynk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Confused Supermassive with Supergiant for a moment, phew

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  • terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    until this comment, so did i.

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  • bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same! Then I remembered Supergiant has under thirty employees and that number made no sense.

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  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I'm surprised these two never got into a trademark dispute...

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am pretty sure you cannot trademark “super” + some other word. You have to be more specific. Well, at least in the USA.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LittleBigPlanet and Until Dawn are their big ones

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah me too and then I realized I have no idea who supermassive are.

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  • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omg yeah, came here to comment this. I was super sad for those 3 seconds

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I keep getting them mixed up with Supercell, too

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• isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their name has now been changed to Stellar Mass Games.

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• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “redundancy consultation process” I hate newspeak

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  • samc@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its a british thing. If a company wants to lay off a large amount of employees, they have to go through a process called consultation. This obliges them to sit down with your trade union rep (if you have one) and tell them why your job is being cut.

    Not sure how much difference it makes in practice, but at the very least it guarantees a 40 day period between announcing redundancies and actually firing people.

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  • FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly consultants are overrated

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• shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How big was the ceos bonus last fy?

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  • Microw@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Their CEO quit end of June without any reason stated. Sounds like he was the first one to get laid off.

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    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well that’s good.

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Individuals get fired when they fuck up, companies layoff workers when they fuck up. Large scale layoffs are the outcome of poor planning and organization. You can’t predict markets completely, suppliers charge, etc which accounts for small # layoffs, but large, mass layoffs should be accompanied by replacing executives and leadership roles first to prevent such poor management.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s cheaper to hire in bulk and fire “low performers” or whatever than it is to put more effortinto hiring. and even then, tmk, it’s really only so common place in amerikka because worker protections are practically non-existent. if it should more expensive to fire people…then maybe the corpos would plan/hire better

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would that be good though? How is a small company realistically going to test if someone is worth hiring or not.

      Oh yeah, have you got 10 years experience in the same role?

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah man, the layoffs are hitting the developers of hit 2013 game “Walking with Dinosaurs?” What is the world coming to??

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Layoffs are hitting the developers of hit titles such as the Dark Pictures Anthology and Until Dawn.

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• Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For a second, I thought this was supergiant games, and had a heart attack

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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who?

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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ll soon have to rebrand to “fairly large games”.

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• Soulinyx@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man, they made this sound as generically as ‘fuck you, shit happens, oh well’ as they come.

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are to blame so it’s no surprise they want to make it sound inevitable and unpredictable

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their games are probably not easy to make and definitely not cheap if you hire these famous actors. Sure they are not s-tier level of actors but they are definitely not cheap. I bet many of those actors can ask a higher pay than the games industry’s favorite called Troy Baker.

  Also the market for interactive movies probably isn’t mega huge either. Every interactive movie series they released was published by a different publisher. Doubt they were massive hits.

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  • jackal@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Based on what I’ve seen Directive 80211 didn’t seem to sell as well as their previous games, probably because they dropped the “Dark Pictures” stuff from it (or kept it hidden, as it were)… Hard to believe a single mis-step caused this but I’m not in the industry so take that with a pinch of salt.

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’ve released a bunch of non-Dark Pictures games, The Quarry, Casting of Frank Stone and Little Nightmares 3

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Once again, this demonstrates just how volatile and uncertain it is to be having game development as a career path.

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