FD layoff of content staff

[Kalearne]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/elite-dangerous-dev-announces-layoffs-new-tycoon-g/1100-6424900/

Kind of wished they'd waited til the game was finished before they cut down on staff. So much needs fleshing out.

This does not make me feel hopeful about elite

 

[BigBadB]

Already being discussed here:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=105414

(Completely pointlessly, imho, but that won't stop them, I guess.)

 

[rebelredneck]

They have only closed the canadian office probably to save money as i suspect the majority of the content was made in Cambridge. Plus they are working on 2 futher games so i would say the futures is looking so bright i gotta wear shades

 

[salad]

What a crappy article, the way its written clearly shows that they're trying to make this a big deal when its not.

From the source page: http://www.frontier.co.uk/investor_relations/reports/news/?artid=477&pageNum=0&blk=275

"15 content creation roles have been made redundant in Cambridge (from 281 total headcount), while Frontier continues to recruit in areas such as game and technology programming, server and web front end development."

Do they ever mention that? Nope they just tell you that the head count has been lowered and that FD is working on other stuff.

Typical gaming "journalism"

 

[babelfisch]

They are also hiring. Don't jump to false conclusions so quickly. And next time - please use the search function.

 

[Yaffle]

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