Marvel Rivals Devs Laid Off Despite The Game's Huge Success

Super disgusting seeing all these comments defending this. "it's just business" is the excuse corporations use to treat human being like office supplies.

Of people help build your success, you should support them, even when it's not the maximally profitable decision. Because that's how you EARN loyalty and trust and repeat success. That's how you get people on your team who are willing to take risks and stick through the hard times.

When you show your employees and customers that you don't see them as people worth protecting, just number worth min maxxing, you deserve nothing but failure.

What a shame that we have created a culture where working people celebrate the exploitation of other working people. When the ax comes for you, I hope others are more willing to support you than yall were here.

Time to move back to Overwatch

Six people in the US being cut from a Chinese company is a lot less dramatic than the headline made it seem

Good.

This means they've invested as much in the game as they intend to and now it's keeping it alive to get as much profit from it until it's no longer worth the effort.

The latest example showing corporations do not care about employees. We are all just a disposable row on a spreadsheet to them.

But as an explanation, whoever owns the IP and made this decision likely knows that life service games are generally flash in the pan 15 minutes of fame temporary fads so they likely cut overhead and other costs prior to player count inevitably crashing so they could cash out and run back to their yachts.

If these are contract workers, well, that's sort of standard policy to let them go. Game development is a pretty ruthless career and many people are hired on for a set amount of time.

With that said, this game always seemed too good to be true in terms of its success, and you know what they say about things that are too good to be true.

We will see what the future holds but the publisher likely has data we don't, and this might be forecasting a loss for them in the near future if they're taking actions like this.

Then again, maybe the level designers' work was done and they didn't need to be retained.

It would be good to know how many people work on this game in total. Six people sounds like nothing for a big production like this. Also, "two of whom were level designers". What about the four others? I don't use Bluesky, so I can't view that link.

It seems like one of the level designers worked on XDefiant as well, and I remember seeing some questionable art design in that game. Now, this is just speculation, but maybe they weren't willing to cooperate with what China asked of them, and that's why they were let go?

No one is safe. You're either consistently making the company more money than you're worth, or you can see yourself out. No resting on the laurels of previous success no matter how recent.

AI will eventually come for every single job in the world. now, make no mistake, I don't mean it will do as good of a job as humans do (in most cases), but it's still coming for literally everything eventually.

See? This is why Gen Y and Gen Z have the largest amount of apathy for everything out of any generation.

Back in the day when my dad did an outstanding job (He's Gen X) he would be given some neat reward that wasn't a part of his pay. Like a used Big screen TV, or a spare car, or a discount on his apartment's rent [insert "true story meme" here]. Also, it helped you climb the metaphorical ladder better, which my dad did a lot.

When my brother and I do an outstanding job, our job contracts are extended, which is doubly annoying and outright offensive. Because their pretty much saying, "Good job! You might actually be worth the whole contract instead of half." They seem to think they would've been better off without us. And the whole ladder climb is gone unless you're family.

To make it even worse. If you did produce a horrible game or product back then you still kept your job. Now you can make titanic level games and still be handed a pink slip afterward.

Pfft, and they wonder why we disrespect leadership so much.

I pray for all of them and their family members. May they all get new better jobs soon.

God bless everyone.

lets be honest, there's a 90% chance those us layoff are political due all those stupid tariff trump is forcing on everyone and their mother. after all netease is a chinese company

As a kid, my dream was to make video games (particularly for SquareSoft. Yes, SquareSoft. I’m older). I’m so glad I never followed through on that. What a miserable field to work in.

if the game is now in a place where it doesn't need as many developers, why would layoffs be surprising?