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Marvel Rivals Director Shares That He And His Team Were Just Laid Off (www.resetera.com)
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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

resetERA is an unusual source for this, but the OP is just direct screencaps off of LinkedIn of people saying they were laid off, and it's hard to get more definitive than that in terms of sourcing

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 18 points 10 months ago

It's LinkedIn, you can just go check. The screenshots are indeed real.

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only decent game companies left appear to be the indies

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 22 points 10 months ago

always have been

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Valve?

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I do believe Valve also counts as Indie. They are privately owned and self-publish.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

I'd say indie should be a smaller company, not one of the industry pillars.

But it's arguable, their style is different, to say the least.

[–] SilverCode@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Valve make games?

[–] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Deadlock

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Sometimes.

They mostly make money though.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

It's been a while, but yeah. I do believe they have a couple of projects in the works.

Whether or not they'll amount to anything is anyones guess.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

One of multiples R&D teams got laid off, an American team, not the main devs.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

> write successful game

> get laid off

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

It's a small team of 6 in the USA that worked as a support team for R&D, no one there "wrote the successful game".

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How come they fired the whole team and then started posting game promos on YouTube right afterwards lol

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They fired the devs, not marketing /s

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 6 points 10 months ago

Maybe they wanted to give the Marketing department a raise

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How many were laid off? Did they hire another people maybe? I would be careful with premature conclusions based on this single event. It would be hilarious if those laid off people go to work on Overwatch...

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

the going theory is that this is effectively the western division of NetEase getting axed because they're not important enough and "cost too much" to keep around

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago

6 people in a support team working on R&D

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

LMFAO. Good, can't wait for the newest Chinese spyware to die.