2y ago

Star Trek Online and Neverwinter MMO devs Cryptic are the next Embracer-owned studio to suffer layoffs

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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I swear it seemed like they only had a skeleton crew already to do basic maintenance and bare minimum "new" content. Who could they even afford to still layoff without shutting everything down? The janitorial staff?
- They've cut down to one man, and half a hamster.
  Don't ask about the hamster.
  
  They had to lay off half of the hamster 😔
Well obviously the high payed managers would be let go, right?
- You can't leave the one engineer left on 40k manage himself. Need an 120k manager to look after him
Someone please buy the rights to City of Heroes and boot it back up.
- WildStar!
Wow. Star Trek Online is an embarassment as it is now, now they want to make it worse?
Guess i should get ready for its shutdown... Couple of years from now when its been milked dry by the zen currency bots.
- Couple of years from now when its been milked dry by the zen currency bots.
  They just banned almost all of those a few months back.
  Like, massive sweeping bans and the zen exchange has been mostly normal since.
- Never played it, but seen the ads - what makes it so bad?
  
  Almost everything that made the game great has been gutted over the years.
  They removed not only the ability to make new user made maps and scenarios but removed all content related to the function saying it would essentially require requiring the game from scratch because no one was left that knew how it worked.
  Many of the missions have been removed over the years, saying they no longer are good enough quality compared to new content, etc.
  Everything is a shadow of what it was. And everything is micro transactions now.
  
  I've played it for a bit, didn't like the controls - felt pretty clunky, like the camera controls in particular. Still, better than SWTOR though.
It's unsurprising, particularly the lateral move to DECA Games. It was an easy target for Embraced to cut costs, plus their last game was cancelled before release (Magic: Legends). It seems like the Cryptic engine would require a large investment to be used for new games, but I might be wrong.
Still frustrating, I'm certain those devs didn't deserve to be laid off. Seems they cut senior devs too.

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