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Perfect World Entertainment hit with potentially massive layoffs
suzy32
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Is STO going to be ok?
http://massivelyop.net/2015/03/17/perfect-world-entertainment-hit-with-potentially-massive-layoffs/
http://massivelyop.net/2015/03/17/perfect-world-entertainment-hit-with-potentially-massive-layoffs/
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Sorry, but someone losing their job is never good news...
As it is, his position as Community Manager would have had a negligible impact on STO's overall development and direction anyway - he was just the messenger and a face for the people behind the scenes...
No it is not but he TRIBBLE up the game for me and many others who are friends. I want sto to survive this storm and come out stronger
I totally agree, and thank you for saying it.
I was never a fan of Smirk, I admit that. He was the 'Community Manager' for a company that's made a policy of ignoring the community. I have always felt that he was highly neglectful in the job he was doing.
I do however, think he's a good guy and would have preferred that he simply did a better job as opposed to finding himself unemployed. It would be different if he was just being intentionally neglectful, but I don't feel that was the case.
I'm hoping this will bring about a change that will increase the communication between Cryptic and the community, but I'll admit I have my doubts. In the end, a good guy will end up losing his job and we'll all be in the same position with Cryptic we have always been in.
Ignored.
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That depends .
How are things in your Fleet ?
Same as always or less players / chatter ?
... I can still remember your Fleet being the first one to get it's Starbase to T5 ...
Thing is I'm not a negative nutjob . .
But. . .
I have decided I'm holding off spending money on the game until I know what's really going on due to the fact even though it's just a game and yes my money is not buying anything concrete so to speak, I'm not willing to waste my money on stuff if they are going to close the game by mid year if ya get me, and without a word from cryptic about this issue I'm sure most players who are aware of the situation are feeling very much the same.
Thus their silence is only hurting their bottom line further they need to put any worry and doubt about the game to rest ASAP to avoid any further issues that may arise.
*facepalm*
2 staff get laid off - one of them little more than a messenger for the company with no true bearing on STO - and suddenly "THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! THE GAME IS DOOOOOMED!!!"
Yet you're not a 'negative nutjob'... So many Chicken Littles around here all the same... /sigh
Thx for confirming because I dont see any negative impacts for STO due to current events either.
If they have some in the long run because player numbers are reducing or income is short I think everybody at pwe/cryptic (or any new publisher for that matter) would have a few thousands forum posts about what game changes the past year where appreciated by the community and which one werent.
A correlation with gathered in game metrics shouldnt be that hard.
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Sounds reasonable and would explain why this whole 5 year build up Iconian conflict falls down on us out of sudden.
As far as new contend is concerned whats there to loose? Even less new missions to back up levelling or even fewer PvE maps which are unused the moment the latest reput is filled?
Its not as if I wouldnt queue up for IGA anyway whenever the latest TRIBBLE is done. Worked in 2012 and will do in 2016 as well.
The less attention STO get from PWE the better.
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Yes and no... This could simply mean that we'll see no large scale changes to systems within STO for a while... Such shuffling of staff is pretty normal within games developers, while between major projects...
Think about it, the Sector Space revamp is well underway, most other systems (outside of Character Skills and general UI stuff) have been revamped already...
Aside from Exploration, there's really not that many pressing changes needing to be made outside of ongoing QA (which is always going to be ongoing)... Provided the necessary staff remain to generate new episodes, there's no reason why another few seasons' worth of content (at the very least) won't be forthcoming, especially if they can use existing locations and assets in the process...
While STO is still making money, I highly doubt PWE will just up and abandon it like that...
By the reported information Cryptic still has 110 people working for it. PWE still owns Cryptic and 5 other game companies. PWRD still owns PWE. There was a bunch of layoffs across a bunch of divisions of a bunch of companies. This is not about Cryptic's STO Devs not listening to 100 fans on a forum.
Bolded by me for emphasis...
I was skimming the massive combo thread created from the collection of Smirk threads, and Askray "let slip" that PWE has a "low communications and last minute information" philoshophy that was applied and enforced on the staff that represents Cryptic but under the ultimate command of PWE.
Basically, the command of PWE's "community management" thinks that "managing" the community is best done in silence with the banhammer and that "viral marketing" full of rampant speculation (if there's any marketing before the week of release) is better than facts. Smirk, Trendy, etc. all have to follow this person's dictates...
Definitely not what we were used to - at least the slience and last minute stuff, I understand banhammer applications were once du jour...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
I am sorry for Matt Miller and for Smirk as well, it was IMO a mistake to fire a valuable and experienced designer like Matt Miller. I am also sorry for Smirk as he was a friendly person, but he was also quite a pretender and played STO like a total buffoon, he definitely didn't care much about the game. He was more invested into Trekkie geekiness than having any idea how to play STO and that put me off.
This said, I am very angry at PWE's greed. They seem to be expecting too much profit. The games are doing well and get more content than ever before, I hope they don't ruin the game by driving people away due to ever more money grabbing attempts. There is a limit how much people can and want to pay for a game and not even a genius monetization designer is going to change that.
'Till now , we had devs move from Champs to STO to NW -- depending on which game was in it's "push" cycle .
That cycle has been cut , and the devs NW lost did not get moved over to the "super secret project" .
Not sure if this means anything -- it's just an observation .
... and I too am sorry for the folks who lost their jobs ...
So in other words we are going to miss all those beautiful curtains which use to cover the latest money grab/grind. I think I can live with that but understand that not everyone might.
Interesting thought. Its hard to say but Im somewhat curious at what point on the limit curve we are and how far it can be stretched.
If those layoffs give any indication it's that some limits have been reached somewhere already by now.
I bet Delta Rising showed everybody in charge exactly how much the STO community is willing to pay and/or play. My conclusion is this game has been overgrazed with the best expansion ever and the publisher does not love that.
So to answer your question OP:
Yes it is. Im also more confident than ever the past 5 moths that its not getting any worse from now on. Besides, you and I wont suffer the consequences, if anything I bet we get a better game. I would even go so far as to conclude that the whole Delta Recruiting stuff falling from the sky is just the first step. You get a character slot for free and have the prospect of a server wide faster levelling progression. Too bad for some peeps who lost their job that something like that was not included in the initial expansion. Things might have turned out differently.
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people can find jobs and people can be replaced and it depends who replaces smirk as if its a good thing. life goes on but doesnt matter what anyone else thinks, it happens.
Smirk brought nothing to STO as a community lead compared to brandon, his loss is still being felt even today, smirk wasnt even a shadow of brandon's ability.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
i dont know the situation behind the scenes, you would need to provide some proof that smirks hands were tied because all i saw was smirk providing nothing to the game, community or as a rep for PWE and a lesser extend cryptic.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.