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Layoffs at Techland (publishing division to shut down until end of the year)

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Bad news coming from #Techland. With the month's end many people within the publishing division are getting laid off, and the division itself is set to disappear with the end of the year. #polishgames
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On the one hand they haven't published that much (at least internationally - don't remember how much they've been publishing locally [EDIT: 28 games on Polish market just last year and just Metro: Exodus and DIRT Rally 2.0 this year]), but layoffs are layoffs and they're sad.
 
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marzoo said:
im quite confused. why lay off the division stuff? so no devs?
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Other way around, it's the development studio that stays. I guess it's not as much of a change for international gamers (their only bigger publishing deal seems to be Torment: Tides Of Numenera), but such a major change still shows their condition.
 
Potterson

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I wonder if Bad Blood fiasco has anything to do with all this... But yeah, releasing it during the Blackout Hype season wasn't smart.
 
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With all these layoffs I wonder what all these unemployed game developers actually do.

I also wonder if this is a sign of an impending economic crash like in 2007/8
 
Nateo

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Please let DL2 be safe PLEASE. Also I hope this doesn't swing them to the Epic Store.
 

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Dang, this sucks. I've been rooting for Techland as one of the more interesting studios to survive the AA-game die-off. Hope Dying Light 2 does well for them.
 
Azerth

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so place your bets thq or ms? lol

hope everyone that is laid off land on there feet.
 
Truant

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DL2 is far enough along that it will get picked up by another publisher if things go south, ala Stick of Truth.
 
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Wolf said:
The game industry is going through a really rough patch right now.
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yeah, and it's called fiscal year

it really sucks getting all those news about lay-offs, though there is demand in the gaming industry for experienced people so I hope they'll land on their feet.
 
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Bansai said:
yeah, and it's called fiscal year

it really sucks getting all those news about lay-offs, though there is demand in the gaming industry for experienced people so I hope they'll land on their feet.
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It's not just because of fiscal year. There is a lot of uncertainty in things that were presumed to be guaranteed cash cows. Activision's recent issues, RDR2 online's numbers being down, etc are a sign that things are changing.
 
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Reaally hope this doesn't affect Dying Light 2, not after how excited I was to see Chris Avellone's involvement in it.
 
Triggerhappytel

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Truant said:
DL2 is far enough along that it will get picked up by another publisher if things go south, ala Stick of Truth.
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Yeah, didn't the first game have something crazy like 14 million players total? I'm sure they'd have no trouble partnering with a big publisher again if the needed to for DL2.

SageShinigami said:
Man, weren't they working on an RPG or something too? :/
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They were doing Hellraid, which looked a bit Elder Scrollsy but I believe was going to be much more linear. However it was put on hold a few years back and I don't know if they have plans to revisit it.
 
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Triggerhappytel said:
Yeah, didn't the first game have something crazy like 14 million players total? I'm sure they'd have no trouble partnering with a big publisher again if the needed to for DL2.



They were doing Hellraid, which looked a bit Elder Scrollsy but I believe was going to be much more linear. However it was put on hold a few years back and I don't know if they have plans to revisit it.
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That's not the game I was talking about. This was something separate, as I understand.
 
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They are shutting down the polish publishing division, they are not touching Dying Light developers and the ww publishing division
 
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