znihilist Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) From this article: A source speaking to Polygon who wished to remain unnamed said that Carbine was especially hard-hit by the layoffs. The studio reportedly lost over 60 members of its team of a few hundred. Our source says the layoffs included Carbine employees across all levels, not just entry level or less senior staff. I could see players jumping ship, possibly WoW or SWTOR ? EDIT: Apparently some of the people who were laid off by Carbine are the Lead PvP designer, Senior world artist, and Dungeon and Raid designer of Wildstar. Edited October 24, 2014 by znihilist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSRB Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 It seems to be a combination of the standard post launch lay offs, which is standard in any MMO to release extra people brought in to push the product out the door; and major house cleaning. According to Carbine's listing at glassdoor.com (meaning this is really mostly rumors) there is a lot of cliques and buck passing amongst the management/supervisor level staff; so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the more senior level guys shown the door were identified as "problems" and the standard lay off procedure was used as an excuse to get rid of them. However, the fact is that there were lay offs at all of NCSoft West's studios except ArenaNet, which combined last quarter's poor projections for Wildstar means that game's spiraling performance is dragging down NC's entire Western branch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Projawa Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) It seems to be a combination of the standard post launch lay offs, which is standard in any MMO to release extra people brought in to push the product out the door; and major house cleaning. According to Carbine's listing at glassdoor.com (meaning this is really mostly rumors) there is a lot of cliques and buck passing amongst the management/supervisor level staff; so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the more senior level guys shown the door were identified as "problems" and the standard lay off procedure was used as an excuse to get rid of them. However, the fact is that there were lay offs at all of NCSoft West's studios except ArenaNet, which combined last quarter's poor projections for Wildstar means that game's spiraling performance is dragging down NC's entire Western branch. Every workplace or sufficiently large org has cliques. It's just that some let those divisions impact the final outcome, while in other places it's at most a superficiality. I guess WS is an example of the former. Edited October 24, 2014 by Projawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotharofxev Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 http://nosygamer.blogspot.com/ Not even top-12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeweledleah Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) http://nosygamer.blogspot.com/ Not even top-12. increase for WoW doesn't surprised me - preexpansion + holiday with new pets/toys plus last chance to get a legendary with it being removed in few weeks - tends to do that. Guild wars 2 decrease surprised me at first, but then I remembered that haloween event is pretty much a repeat of last year with nothing new added really, so.... I can see why players might shift priorities. I can see it getting a jump in players while living world season 2 resumes in november though. TOr is getting a jump I'd say in part due to 12xp promotion for preorders. Edited October 24, 2014 by Jeweledleah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djiini Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 'Leader in global entertainment' Let's not get ahead of ourselves, NCSoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNahash Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 http://nosygamer.blogspot.com/ Not even top-12. Wow. Just wow. There are actual people who play Star Trek Online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeweledleah Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Wow. Just wow. There are actual people who play Star Trek Online? I know quite a few personally, couple even with lifetime subscription. also - they just dropped a new expansion - so that very much explains influx of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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