Painted Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Will we ever see Ranked Warzones? http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/22/star-wars-the-old-republic-hit-with-layoffs/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andruide Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Please explain who was laid off and why. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkirus Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 This should be a wake up call for BioWare concerning TOR....but I get this feeling some of them in management are still sleeping...dreaming what could have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monoth Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 If its just the programmers who caused all the bugs ever new patch then I have no issues with them firing them... But to be fair every Design team lays people off after a lunch of a MMO.... If anything Bioware kept them around a lot longer then most MMO companies do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kourage Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) Who will be the next louse? Who will give us all the details of the failures, or just pretend they were an employee and make them up? Edited May 22, 2012 by Kourage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkinnunzero Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I guess this is the "ongoing thread" then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovarBoy Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Please explain who was laid off and why. Thank you. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=462269 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Ravenhurst Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) You know what? This can only be a good sign. Sometimes companies see their product needs a change, and the earlier they execute such changes the better. People might be better off in different positions. Guess game development is all a big strategy game itself. Edited May 22, 2012 by Lord_Ravenhurst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickM Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 We'll probably never know, but some devs have been oddly silent lately. I'm usually not one for tinfoil hats, but the 400k sub loss, EA placing this game in priority below Tiger Woods, and EA just being pure evil... I'm wondering if EA will do to BioWare what they did to Westwood Studios... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illyean Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 more interested to know who has gone In reality this was expected, the great line of 'unlike other MMOs we have kept our development team on' at launch time were just a cover for we are no where near finished the basic essentials and had planned on launching in the New year, maybe around March time, so everyone is contracted till then. BW needs a good news day, maybe tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andruide Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=462269 That does not explain who was laid off and why. But thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkinnunzero Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 This should be a wake up call for BioWare concerning TOR....but I get this feeling some of them in management are still sleeping...dreaming what could have been. I don't think the management is sleeping. The question is are they awake enough to retain the people they need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navocky Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Will we ever see Ranked Warzones? http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/22/star-wars-the-old-republic-hit-with-layoffs/ Perhaps theyre firing the PR people to hire an actuall programmer ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erictlewis Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 So I read in that article they are going to continue to grow swtor?? Really bw/ea have you not looked at your servers and see whats going on with the population, I don't call that growth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickM Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 By the way, countdown to Kotaku blowing this article up: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... "SW:TOR lays off people; game continues to die. PLAY TERA and GUILD WARS 2 instead!" All from their seasoned "MMO Reporter" that hates MMO games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerion Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 That's EA suits for you. Gawd I dislike EA as a company. Not going to say it's the worst in America, but they force crap like this all the time. Killed off Earth and Beyond even though it was a successful MMO, and various operational malfeasance with regard to other MMOs. Ranks up there with SOE, but at least SOE likes to make MMOs. EA makes MMOs because its part of their diversified business portfolio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiabloDoom Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 All they did was fire the guys who make the tea for the guys who make the coffee then replaced those guys with a coffee machine. Fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzi- Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I dont know what it means BUT They better post more news and info than what they have ... They need to let us know that this does not effect transfurs and the release of 1.3 Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktkenshinx Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Could be good news, could be bad news Layoffs and restructuring might enable SWTOR to fix its current state and rev things into a higher gear. I am sure that EA and BW execs are furious at the current subscription problems and server populations, not to mention lack of progress in some content and features areas. Maybe SWTOR gets revitalized with these layoffs. Or....maybe it's just a definite sign that things are going just as badly as this forum thinks they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manigma Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Could be good news, could be bad news Layoffs and restructuring might enable SWTOR to fix its current state and rev things into a higher gear. I am sure that EA and BW execs are furious at the current subscription problems and server populations, not to mention lack of progress in some content and features areas. Maybe SWTOR gets revitalized with these layoffs. Or....maybe it's just a definite sign that things are going just as badly as this forum thinks they are. I don't think so, they need an entirely different design team as well as someone who can sort out the server populations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallorik Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I really really hope they fired the person who decided to make this game vanilla wow and expected it to beat current wow. But they probably fired a bunch of other people who did nothing wrong except work for the moron who decided which way to push this game. Either way, i hope all the fools who said "this game can do great on 500k subs" will shut up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Ravenhurst Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 PLAY TERA and GUILD WARS 2 instead!" Puh---lease... stop creating ads for medieval cartoon crap here.. I´m not twelve, I don´t want to be an elve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voriand Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Maybe some of the forum moderators will be caught as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Karsk Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 This will not mean antthing for content.I think this could actually improve the game in the long run. For what ever reason they had to leave i wish them the best. BioWare will have no problem hiring new talented people to work on SWTOR.And when they do i hope they take the game in a direction that will be good for all players and really improve the STAR WARS experience With the right people in charge this game could grow huge in time like some other game did more then 7 years ago.Players will always come back if th developers are beeing honest about their mistakes. But this game must stand on it's own.In the spirit of STAR WARS and nothing else.Only so will it become trully great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogoo Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) You know what? This can only be a good sign. Sometimes companies see their product needs a change, and the earlier they execute such changes the better. People might be better off in different positions. Guess game development is all a big strategy game itself. Yeah, completely! Getting rid of your employees is ALWAYS a good sign. It's a sign of a healthy business, and a great financial situation. As we all know - smaller teams are able to produce more content, and fix bugs FASTER. I mean... REALLY ? Firing people = GOOD THING ? o.O SWTOR is ******* now, since the new content was already coming at a way slower pace than it should. Edited May 22, 2012 by Sireene lang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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