EVE General Discussion

Hey Guys,

As some of you may have heard today, there’s been reports of job cuts here at CCP in the gaming media. As part of our strategy to focus on the EVE Universe, today we conducted a restructuring that resulted in the layoff of 49 people in our publishing organization.

This has been a really tough decision for us to make, and though it’s hard to say goodbye to our friends and family, this action concludes the process we started several months ago to restructure CCP.

CCP has provided severance packages and job placement assistance for all those employees who are affected, and we wish them all the best for the future.

In terms of what this means for our games, development teams and plans for EVE Online, EVE: Valkyrie, DUST 514, and “Project Legion” are not impacted by the restructuring that has taken place today.

If you'd like to discuss what's happened today, feel free to do so in this thread.

Thanks,

- F

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do the guys who were let go get to say goodbye ITT?

publishing organisation? is that white wolf?

Yes White Wolf...

Which is a pity really....no one parties like White Wolf...I mean no one.

Hm. Also, that Guardian article is quite the bit of muck-raking. It looks like it was mostly based on the report of one disgruntled employee, but if even half-true there are some corrections that need to be made.

Yes - some response on the allegations would be most warranted at this point. Especially considering the allegedly ghost-written "Sincere apology"

Even if this is, admittedly, a one-sided article since no one from CCP mgmt decided to reply to The Guardian, it is a pretty disheartening thing to read.

Any sort of management needs to always understand this: People (workers) will never remember what you said in the past...but they will always remember how you made them feel.

Hm. Fair enough, PK. Perhaps he isn't disgruntled, necessarily, so much as jaded and demoralized. What he says isn't what you'd expect of someone neutral or happy with the status quo.

That said, while I love EVE and I hope CCP does well, I'm still of the mind that there are elements of amateur hour here. By all appearances, CCP needs to tighten up its development processes and management.

Something tells me the ship is starting to take on water @ CCP, and they're trying to do their best to bail the water out as fast as possible. I mean, they haven't even touted their subscription numbers like they used to all the time, and I find that a bit odd with as much as they did in the past. And you get them finally closing down White Wolf and all the other changes they have been making. Hope their bucket is big enough.

I wouldn't go that far, ILB; but if WoD, Dust, and Incarna are any example, CCP definitely needs to tighten up. They have enough funding to do remarkable things, provided that they don't burn their resources on endless, cyclic prototyping. The keys are clear development paths and clear, concisely-expressed design vision to ensure that they can go from concept to deployment speedily and effectively.

Hopefully the new rapid deployment model is based on a change in CCP's internal methods, but I wouldn't bet on it until we start seeing it in action.