Sony Holding Job Fair for Fable Developers

I wonder if M$ did this would everyone still be dandy about the situation or complaining.

The amount of negativity and hipocrisy of fanboys here baffles me , im looking at you 7tizz

Way to go Sony for Stepping up and helping out people newly out of work.

MS firing people is a good thing and SONY hiring them is a bad thing???

Go figure.....

Good on Sony, being out of a job is horrible when its not your choice. Nice to see a company taking interest.

Lol at people think hiring by social media is just for PR, it's actually probably the most efficient way for a tech company to get the word out that they are interested and it's better to do it early than late, I've seen companies say they are looking for new employees on pretty much anything, from Facebook to Youtube.

Sony pretending to be the good guy this gen....

Fable legends has beautiful graphics and I was really excited for Fable 4, I hope MS can set up another studio for Lionhead and get them to continue with the Fable franchise

Wow. That maneuver. It's like a 360 no scope. XD

its admirable for sony to to do this. i guess its even good theyre hiring talents away right from their rival

I was expecting people to over react to this. Hiring from social media is a normal day to day thing. So much ridiculous comments. I only found it stupid that MS did not shift their employees to other studios, feels like a mismanagement there.

Is this too much of an early move by Sony since Lionhead Studios technically hasn't closed yet? Microsoft could turn around and say "nah, we want them working on something else now."

There are two things of note here that is important from the article above.

-During the first half of the 7th gen all consoles makers shed off many of their 1rst party developers, as the thought of the day was consoles were dead and social games like farmville or motion controlled games along with mobile would be the only future of the gaming industry. And all studios would be swallowed up by just a few large publishers like THQ and EA. Well none of that came to past and in 2014 MS and Sony invested tons of cash into first party developers - with 8th gen console selling more then anyone could have expected. Now we see that there are winners and losers and some developers are just not producing well enough.

- The second thing, MS is starting to contract their investments and cut out developers that have no viable product- meanwhile Sony continues to push on and pushing even more money toward studios, new and old. I think microsoft should have kept those first party developers funded... even if you plan to scrap a project, you need studios to pump out those first party games. Consider this a rebuilding year or generation - you may lose money now but if you do not invest in the present, then xbox will be weaker later on. Those UK studios may not have a strong product at this time, but to lose such strong talent and lose it to your competition is not a good move.

Sony, PR console. They don't need to publish this on twitter. If you are going to do something good, don't brag about it, nor shout it in every corner. Sony is such an hypocrite company.

Creative Assembly sent out some tweets at them too, saying they might have job opportunities for some too:

https://twitter.com/CAGames/status/707667447416016896

Always nice to see support :D

The point here isnt a sony vs microsoft thing. No mater their reasons what maters is this. They are helping.

If you worked at lionhead. You would be freaking out. "Wth am i suposed to do now....what am i gona do...." and here apears a company wanting to help you. They can breath easier. At least for now

OUCH!!!

I'm sorry...you might love Sony or you might hate their guts...but you HAVE TO GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THIS!!!

They just opened their doors to these people right after Microsoft tossed them aside. Picture all of the people working at Lionhead Studios that have families and were worried sick because they didn't know where their next pay check was coming from.

This is like when Gabe Newell gave a every developer at his conference a free Vive...except this is bigger because they just helped their families too.

Loving the irony here... Well done Sony (for once).

mad respect to sony for doing this. Once again, #Fuckyouphil

Well

Xbox just basically handed their employees to Sony

Lol corporation trolling! Reminds of the time when Xbox announced that you couldn't re-sell or lend your games and Sony made a mock video haha I was like "no they didn't"

Sony stealing sales and devs now it seems.

@7tizz: PR gain from this seems like it would be minimal.

@7tizz: damn haven't seen you in a while bud.

@7tizz: Ha! I knew 7tizz would be here

Sony has to get some games going here...so it's a good greasy move...lol

Sony! You slick, slick Sony! (in a good way)

Good news here.