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Doomheim
#21 - 2013-12-11 21:03:41 UTC
Too many americans.
Tasha Saisima
Doomheim
#22 - 2013-12-11 21:05:20 UTC
Donate $200k to charity and lay off staff a week later right at Christmas. Well played CCP
Kate stark
#23 - 2013-12-11 21:11:59 UTC
the stupidity of half of the comments in this thread make me cringe.

Yay, this account hasn't had its signature banned. or its account, if you're reading this.
Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#24 - 2013-12-11 21:26:22 UTC
Tasha Saisima wrote:
Donate $200k to charity and lay off staff a week later right at Christmas. Well played CCP



i could be wrong, but i was under the impression the player base raised the $200k, not CCP.

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The Scope
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2013-12-11 21:27:42 UTC
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#26 - 2013-12-11 21:32:07 UTC
So a senior PR acknowledged, 15 devs have been laid off from the Atlanta office, right before Christmas.

Looks like when Reykjavik sneezes, Atlanta gets decimated... What?

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Annie Anomie
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2013-12-11 21:34:10 UTC
Well, I guess that answers "Just how long can WoD / WiS stay vapourware?"

Commiserations guys :(
Karrl Tian
Doomheim
#28 - 2013-12-11 21:35:30 UTC
Kind of reminds me of a job I used to work at where they up and laid off the entire housekeeping and landscaping departments (and then probably deported them). It even happened about this same time of the year and everyone agreed it was a **** move, but not to the boss's face of course.
Rainbow Dash
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2013-12-11 22:04:12 UTC
To be fair, I'm pretty sure timing of layoffs has more to do with calendar years and fiscal quarters than some silly sky fairy holiday.
Jill Chastot
WE FORM BL0B Inc.
Goonswarm Federation
#30 - 2013-12-11 22:08:53 UTC
Rainbow Dash wrote:
To be fair, I'm pretty sure timing of layoffs has more to do with calendar years and fiscal quarters than some silly sky fairy holiday.


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Xavier Higdon
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#31 - 2013-12-11 22:10:16 UTC
What does Christmas have to do with anything? If these people had no savings and could only afford presents if their check clears in time then they couldn't afford presents at all. Whether they were laid off now or in June their income is gone just the same. If they live paycheck to paycheck then that is their choice and should not be a consideration of CCP or any other company when these kinds of decisions must be made.
Josef Djugashvilis
#32 - 2013-12-11 23:59:08 UTC
Rainbow Dash wrote:
To be fair, I'm pretty sure timing of layoffs has more to do with calendar years and fiscal quarters than some silly sky fairy holiday.



Jeez, do kids still expect presents for a 'silly sky fairy story' annual event?

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Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#33 - 2013-12-12 00:26:06 UTC
So when is WoD going to finally be shuttered, and efforts redirected to EVE, Dust 514 and Valkyrie?

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Dranchela
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#34 - 2013-12-12 00:26:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Dranchela
World of Darkness wasn't producing anything. Are you people really so mentally deficit as to think you can produce nothing of any substance for years and still get to keep your job?
Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#35 - 2013-12-12 00:50:33 UTC
Losses in the US, new office in England-- loss of WoD, addition of Valkyrie. I'll take that trade.

Hopefully they do Valkyrie right and keep it VR and cross-platform compatible without trying to microtransaction the hell out of it.

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Cygnet Lythanea
World Welfare Works Association
#36 - 2013-12-12 00:51:18 UTC
Dranchela wrote:
World of Darkness wasn't producing anything. Are you people really so mentally deficit as to think you can produce nothing of any substance for years and still get to keep your job?


What, you've never worked for the government?


That said, actually they've produced everything CCP corporate has directed them to. The real problem is that, like eve, they've had devs and resources constantly stripped for other projects. Unlike eve, their game hadn't shipped before CCP got distracted.
Qweasdy
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2013-12-12 00:52:22 UTC
Ursula Thrace wrote:
Tasha Saisima wrote:
Donate $200k to charity and lay off staff a week later right at Christmas. Well played CCP



i could be wrong, but i was under the impression the player base raised the $200k, not CCP.


Well it was CCP that wrote the check and the money came straight from them. However with the slight plex vacuum this created plex prices will go up and so they'll be more valuable, over time this will mean that CCP will earn the money back from more plex purchases.

So in reality the money that was given was raised by CCP in the future, interesting way to think about it :)

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Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#38 - 2013-12-12 01:05:08 UTC
Layoffs happen for other reasons besides negative financial issues, banks have them all the time in a bid to increase profits. Its smart to keep your business lean and only government tend to keep people on who are not essential

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Kryptik Kai
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#39 - 2013-12-12 01:52:36 UTC
between the various art teams, design teams, animation teams, coders, engineers, etc..., 15 people is usually a fairly small portion of an MMO dev team.

It sucks for the people that lost their jobs, but its hardly the end of the world (of darkness)

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Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#40 - 2013-12-12 04:57:50 UTC
Xavier Higdon wrote:
What does Christmas have to do with anything? If these people had no savings and could only afford presents if their check clears in time then they couldn't afford presents at all. Whether they were laid off now or in June their income is gone just the same. If they live paycheck to paycheck then that is their choice and should not be a consideration of CCP or any other company when these kinds of decisions must be made.


Wow, you are seriously some kind of humanitarian.

I bet you think that sending all those clothing mfg jobs to Bangladesh is a sign of great largesse by big business, not some money grab on the backs of the most desperate. Do you also believe that by eliminating unemployment payouts you are helping those people by "encouraging" them to find work as soon as possible?