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Layoffs At Red 5 Studios Put Future Of Firefall Under Question
The future of Red 5 Studios upcoming MMO Firefall has been thrown into question today following news from MMORPG that highlights a large number of layoffs at the development studio. There hasn't been any official word on whether or not these recent layoffs has had a negative impact on the potential release of Firefall but an anonymous employee that was affected by the layoffs has come forward to share their thoughts."It was almost like launch never happened, because we never received any updates besides a vague feeling that the game wasn’t doing very well. At 3:15 on Friday (11/20), about forty of us were called into a meeting where, after some hemming and hawing about how hard a decision this was to make, we were let go with no severance, health insurance expires at the end of the month, thanks for all your overtime. The rest of the office was sent home early, I assume because they didn’t want people talking to each other, but it’s 2015 and Facebook exists, so... The cuts were from basically every department and didn’t follow any kind of rhyme or reason, and they definitely weren’t performance based. Aside from myself, we lost several leads, seniors, and people who’d been with the company a really long time. In total, I’d say between 20 and 25% of the studio lost their job in the cuts. Honestly, they asked us to remake the game in a year, including doing full development on 22 instanced missions and an overhaul of every major system, using art assets from 2008. I don’t know what they expected to happen. Everything that’s going wrong with Firefall isn’t from a lack of talent or passion on behalf of the dev team - it’s corporate mismanagement."Whether or not the poor Eastern release will impact the chances of the West seeing Firefall has yet to be seen and although it's perfectly normal for developers to reduce the size of the team post-release, the way that this has been done does not necessarily mean that is the case.
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