Not sure revenue is declining from Destiny - I guess perhaps a little, but it was hitting new Steam player peaks earlier this year. The expansion being poor has sapped that momentum a bit but I can't imagine it being toward the extent that it requires layoffs. More likely its the same thing that's hitting everyone else - a realisation they feel they overhired during the pandemic and feel like they should just fix it by firing a bunch of people and restructuring what's left.
The same thing happening at Microsoft, Ubisoft, Activision, Embracer and everywhere else??
Not sure why you're conflating retirements with layoffs also?
I mean to me this seems like exactly what it is. Sony is probably looking at where they can merge teams and Community Management is on specific area. You don't really need someone per brand to manage social media. You can have one team that handles all your brands and house them in one office. It's in reality one of the few roles that you can shave off head count and without a huge impact to its performance sadly. Heck there are entire companies that will do this for you (I use to work for one when LG spun off its Mobile Divisions marketing).
Both my parents were in a union (UAW) and so my family and myself benefited greatly from it, they are great and any industry/workplace that can unionize should. That said unions would not really stop this. They can certainly help in terms of notification and severance packages but being a part of a union generally does not make you immune to a layoff.
Bungie hired top talent very quickly for lead and director positions in last years. Never thought there will be layoffs at there.
What? Will things into existence? lmfao they're just asking what's going on
Revenue and units, but not profits and I think it's going to decline more.
Conflating retirement with layoffs speaks volumes. Let's just hope people affected land on their feet.
Consolidation, as always, fucking sucks. This is gross, hope all those impacted land on their feet.
Layoffs combined with massive leadership shakeups will always have people talking, even if the truth is less interesting than what appears. Let's try not to be so touchy even about companies we like, and not go accusing people of things they very clearly didnt mean
25m consoles and they're not making enough to keep people on?
I got caught up in this today. (as of 10 AM Pacific time)
Glad that I at least have some form of healthcare benefit for the next few months, and that I had over a years pay saved up; I am currently in the middle of recovering from a stroke that I stand while working in May of last year(I'm still left side, paralyzed, which isn't fun).
And I'm still getting over the death of a pet, who I was very close to, earlier this year.
So yeah, the last year and a half I've been pretty tough.
I'm not sure what I can say, but I'll share with information I can.
Glad that I at least have some form of healthcare benefit for the next few months, and that I had over a years pay saved up; I am currently in the middle of recovering from a stroke that I stand while working in May of last year(I'm still left side, paralyzed, which isn't fun).
And I'm still getting over the death of a pet, who I was very close to, earlier this year.
So yeah, the last year and a half I've been pretty tough.
I'm not sure what I can say, but I'll share with information I can.
I see project management and senior paralegal. Project/business analyst work is an area where surely someone will ask "Do we have a lot of ongoing projects? Do we really need x amount of analysts?"
And maybe they don't need many folks in legal or their own legal team at all when they're now owned by PlayStation who I imagine has their own legal team.
How brutal have the Bethesda layoffs been? Arkane must've been gutted after Redfall.
Final Shape being delayed is new, isn't it?
I wish all the best for those affected by these layoffs. Sucks all around.....
You'd think a delay would lead to them wanting more staff, not less. These corps are just so short sighted.
Also real bad time for Destiny to have a big delay. Waiting until June for The Final Shape is brutal.
Also real bad time for Destiny to have a big delay. Waiting until June for The Final Shape is brutal.
i don't know why so many people on here think if you're in a union you can't get laid off
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Nope. Concord is scheduled for 2024 but that's it. Sony's GaaS strategy continues to be a flaming pile of shit.
Layoffs are common for the last year or two in more than just the video game industry but tech in general, and probably everywhere but I don't keep track... Growth at almost any cost was the modus operandi for basically everyone for years... Investment dollars were easy to come by with rates being so low in previous years. Money was cheap, as they say.
Pandemic threw all of that to a grinding halt. Rates shot back up, inflation shot up, everything is kinda F'D, and then you end up stuck in the middle of a massive growth strategy but without the gravy train to help keep it up.
Sad, but if you're working at bungie, then you're probably super talented, and you're gonna be just fine in the long term.
Pandemic threw all of that to a grinding halt. Rates shot back up, inflation shot up, everything is kinda F'D, and then you end up stuck in the middle of a massive growth strategy but without the gravy train to help keep it up.
Sad, but if you're working at bungie, then you're probably super talented, and you're gonna be just fine in the long term.
So sorry that you've been having a hell of year. Getting laid off always feels like a gut punch even in the best of times.
I hope you can take some time to rest and recuperate, and wait out this corporate purging that's plaguing us right now.
a flaming pile is at least something. to me it seems like all of those gaas games don't really exist, aside from some cg trailers.
God, I'm so sorry you're going through all that and then still this on top of that. Strength and all the best 🙏
