The layoffs have me confused more then anything else. Help?

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The layoffs have me confused more then anything else. Help?

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MarshalVaako

05.23.2012 , 11:15 AM \| #11	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe That's his job there. As well as a bunch of QA openings. SEE!!! and we all know the QA team SUCKED, it was bug after bug SO this can be good right right??? :::cries:::
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Celebrus

05.23.2012 , 11:17 AM \| #12	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Maxil Anyway I'd except less regular news now, but someone will be tasked with delivering it in some manner eventually. You should expect everything to be less regular, content, news, everything. Accept for the forum whining that is. Thats probably going to end up jumping in activity for about a month until people get over their grieving period and move on.

JeramieCrowe

05.23.2012 , 11:18 AM \| #13	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Celebrus You should expect everything to be less regular, content, news, everything. Accept for the forum whining that is. Thats probably going to end up jumping in activity for about a month until people get over their grieving period and move on. Actually, check the dev tracker. The Doc clarified that no devs were laid off.
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MarshalVaako

05.23.2012 , 11:18 AM \| #14	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Celebrus You should expect everything to be less regular, content, news, everything. Accept for the forum whining that is. Thats probably going to end up jumping in activity for about a month until people get over their grieving period and move on. the news wasn't delivered very quickly or well anyway. If anything maybe they will get more hungry professional people who will also work for less.
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Arkerus

05.23.2012 , 11:19 AM \| #15	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by MarshalVaako The restructuring/layoffs is the first bit if SWTOR news that has actually left me concerned. I'm a diehard SWTOR fanboy with a 6 month sub. I still believe a good group finder, server transfers and ranked warzones can totally save this game. Honestly this new announcement has me confused more then anything else. It might sound bizzare but I'm not even sure if this is a good or bad thing. I mean SWTOR has had issues, with things like development priorities, buggy patches, poor communication and the like. Isn't it possibly that their trimming the fat, moving people around and maybe even hiring one or two new smarty pants to FIX SWTOR not gut it? Or does this have to be 100% bad news? I just don't know if I should be happy or sad and that's really annoying. I mean its always bad when people lose their jobs but if some of these people were just doodling all day their salaries can be better spend elsewhere. I'm not saying everyone sacked deserved it or anything. I'm just not sure if this means DOOOOM or NEW HOPE or just alittle tighning of the belt to keep swtor profitable with less subscribers. Can someone help me out here? Most projects like MMOs take large numbers of people to develop and deploy. Post launch, the application can be maintained by a smaller number of people. Trust me when I say these layoffs have been planned for a long time. It wasn't just after the last investor meeting. Unless this game had 3 or 4 million people playing it, they were going to cut bodies regardless. Without knowing the insides of EA/Bioware, I assume they have trimmed the team down to a level where 1MM subs is profitable minus the costs associated with the game (salaries, servers, etc).
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Costello

05.23.2012 , 11:20 AM \| #16	Quote
The lay offs are a result of 400k people quitting the game. There is no good spin on this even if they were contractors if the game had hit 11 million subs EA and BW would have kept them on to churn out new content to keep people playing I mean paying. The only silver linning to this is that hopefully this will get the dev team to start listening to the customer base before they lose anbother 400k people. Althrough development people saying they don't owe us a thing they don't have to tell us anything did this game no favours as now its live and they need paying subscribers they haven't delivered a game people are happy with or willing to pay monthly for. Now there is a good chance that many of the problems come from people that quit long ago, the choice over space combat, the option to go for cartoon like graphics as more and more AAA MMO are going for more and more realistic graphics. The choice of very limited species very limited customisation both at creation and with what can be worn. The lack of any real any game content and after dailies no single player end content while at the same time making grouping troublesome and time consuming.

psi_overtake

05.23.2012 , 11:20 AM \| #17	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe That's his job there. As well as a bunch of QA openings. Thanks
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MarshalVaako

05.23.2012 , 11:21 AM \| #18	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe Actually, check the dev tracker. The Doc clarified that no devs were laid off. ::Places cap back on vodka bottle:::
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JeramieCrowe

05.23.2012 , 11:22 AM \| #19	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Costello The lay offs are a result of 400k people quitting the game. There is no good spin on this even if they were contractors if the game had hit 11 million subs EA and BW would have kept them on to churn out new content to keep people playing I mean paying. I'd agree if they weren't rehiring. But they are rehiring.
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MarshalVaako

05.23.2012 , 11:23 AM \| #20	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe I'd agree if they weren't rehiring. But they are rehiring. Okay I have decided there is at least a 50/50 percent chance that this might be a good thing. I shall continue onwards with business as usual and just wait for 1.3 to see how things go.
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