Elite Dangerous developer Frontier sanctions hiring freeze, spending cuts, and layoffs
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Seems fair to me, as its simply a copy of the gaming industry article immediately linked in the OP.
But I do see your point.
There's a lot of layoffs in the tech sector, LinkedIn, Accenture etc.. Lean times equals lean staffing requirements unfortunately. I will also concur with the later point about AI being a large reason for it as well.
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I got rather annoyed when JWE suddenly was swept under the carpet and JWE2 appeared.
Depending on when you took those shots. In reality I think the fact that NMS has twice the number of followers means more than the fact that when you captured the images Elite had just over 3 times the viewers of NMS. The situation as I write this is (so less than 3 times the viewers currently):
So maybe not as great as you think, considering this is currently the new update Thargoid-thingie interest wave and the new Elite drops campaign.
Yep, although Elite seems more popular in twitch at the moment, that’s probably due to update 17, it switches over when NMS has an update too.
If you compare the two via steam charts is a completely different story, with far more players on NMS ( although not all elite players play through steam and steam is the only platform where NMS has multi#player).
For an almost 9 year old game (10 if you include the alpha period), ED is still doing incredibly well. I just hope that frontier realises that and there are plenty more opportunities for them to make revenue to keep it going. Odyssey, as it stands now, does not deserve the negative rating it has on steam, but it took NMS over five years to recover from that disaster of a launch, so elite has a bit to go before the ‘Odyssey launch’ is forgiven.
Still, this doesn’t help the fact that good people are going to lose their jobs, so I feel people need to be a bit more sensitive than usual on his topic.
If you compare the two via steam charts is a completely different story, with far more players on NMS ( although not all elite players play through steam and steam is the only platform where NMS has multi#player).
For an almost 9 year old game (10 if you include the alpha period), ED is still doing incredibly well. I just hope that frontier realises that and there are plenty more opportunities for them to make revenue to keep it going. Odyssey, as it stands now, does not deserve the negative rating it has on steam, but it took NMS over five years to recover from that disaster of a launch, so elite has a bit to go before the ‘Odyssey launch’ is forgiven.
Still, this doesn’t help the fact that good people are going to lose their jobs, so I feel people need to be a bit more sensitive than usual on his topic.
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Regardless of anything else, I hope all those forced to take non voluntary redundancies get back on the horse quickly and find work.
and fingers crossed any voluntary redundancies are really good offers allowing the people leaving to do so fairly happily.
the sword of Damocles is over me... i have 2 years to go before i am booted out, so i have sympathy for anyone facing a job loss.
and fingers crossed any voluntary redundancies are really good offers allowing the people leaving to do so fairly happily.
the sword of Damocles is over me... i have 2 years to go before i am booted out, so i have sympathy for anyone facing a job loss.
Sad to hear about the losses, lets hope they find work quickly.
However I think FD are now counting the cost of so many ventures not paying off- lets hope the refocusing takes these lessons into account and that economic headwinds become more favourable.
However I think FD are now counting the cost of so many ventures not paying off- lets hope the refocusing takes these lessons into account and that economic headwinds become more favourable.
More folks will obviously play NMS, its an easier game and less challenging than Elite.
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As someone who's been laid off before, I can sympathize with the affected folks. Just remember that it's the company that's struggling, not you. It's most likely not your fault you were let go. A doorway out of one room is a doorway into another. That worked for me when I felt personally slighted due to the unexpected layoff. A month later I was in a much better role, more money and that was 15 years ago. Still here.
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Same here, the consultation process I went through was horrific, and my particular industry is pretty much in tatters.
I feel for all involved at this difficult time, stay strong and positive.
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Having been laid off myself three years ago, I can imagine the tension, uncertainty, anxiety that it could lead to.
The best option is to stay positive. When I was given the news I was in shock, initially, but after a couple of days of thinking about it, I changed my mind completely, and considered it an opportunity, instead. A redundancy is generally not personal, and does not carry the stigma of a disciplinary dismissal: potential employers normally understand it.
I used my time between jobs after the layoff to learn new skills, engage in new activities (...and discovered ED...).
The positive lookout helped me impress my new employer, when I went to the interview.
I know that everybody's experience is different but, when I look back, I see my period between jobs after the redundancy as one of the best periods in my life.
I really wouldn't compare SC and ED. The game mechanics alone make the difference or the types of planets there are, the ports and the high number of ships
The numbers for SC and SF are more interesting
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the problem with reorgs related to keeping the business from going under is if the people who brought it to that point are still the ones steering the ship thru it.
dropping 90% of your worth is not the industry norm or avg. that kind of performance is generally something that starts at the top for it to have persisted long enough to be this bad.
dropping 90% of your worth is not the industry norm or avg. that kind of performance is generally something that starts at the top for it to have persisted long enough to be this bad.
Probably more the new set of elite helloween cosmetics you get for watching it.
Free cosmetics (and checking for free cosmetics) is the only reason i use twitch.
I'd say the loss of publishing is a major blow and that alone has accounted for a big portion of the new valuation. The market always valuates what a company will be worth not what's it worth now. As such the publishing arm must have carried a lot of the market's expectations regarding revenue and profit.
In September 2022, the President/Founder role was created, a new CEO and COO stepped in, a new Chairman joined from outside Frontier entirely, and a General Counsel role was created to allow the CFO to focus on CFO things.
So that's a great theory, but given how many exec roles are in this list, it simply doesn't apply to Frontier. They have changed the team at the top already.
And you will notice this run of half-decent content, with bugfixes too, has appeared just after this board shuffle.
Good writeup here
Actually i don't notice any of that.
- PZ and JWE2 seems to be maintaining the flow of PDLC and free updates they got over the years.
- F1M23, seems to be improved over F1M22, but still the revenues it's producing are under expectations
- And not at last, ED seen some further apparent budgetary cuts - less interactions from CM team, less streams, less visible activity (which would IMO imply they are stretched with many other activities behind the scenes), while cutting 25% of the cadence of Updates (only 3 this year compared to 4 last year).
I really really hope they nail the Age of Sigmar release and get back into profits
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