Relic Layoffs

slipsius

huge layoffs at relic today I hope those of you affected land on your feet ASAP.

Tulkamir

Err....? I think we laid off one person today. Does suck, but not really a huge layoff, unless there's something the rest of us haven't heard about. I do wish him the best of luck though!

Andreas

LOL.

I wonder if it was Adam.

EDIT: That sounded prickish, I'm joking

PixelMasher

hahha Adam has been at Ubi toronto for the past like 8 months or so atleast. I was sad to see him and his gnarled claw of a hand leave.

Joshua Stubbles

?... so just one person let go today then? Sucks to hear, regardless. The industry isn't doing as bad as it was a year or so ago, I'm sure they'll get something soon. If it's a Polycounter, we're pullin' for ya!

Blaizer

Sad news, with space marine they did a bad move with the game , almost all the warhammer fans are enraged.

ae.

i would guess contracts are over for the people who were brought on as contractors?

Andreas

ae. wrote: »

i would guess contracts are over for the people who were brought on as contractors?

The one person :P

Blaizer wrote: »

Sad news, with space marine they did a bad move with the game , almost all the warhammer fans are enraged.

How so? I heard reviews were good, no? Video I saw looked nice.

TheWinterLord

Andreas wrote: »

The one person :P




How so? I heard reviews were good, no? Video I saw looked nice.

He was being ironic.

With these threads please post more facts and maybe some links to articles or whatever.

Blaizer

Andreas wrote: »

How so? I heard reviews were good, no? Video I saw looked nice.

Look: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/warhammer-40000-space-marine/user-reviews

For PC and Xbox360 it's more of the same. The game is good, but it did not appeal at all. For me it's a 70. Let's wait for the other reviews... and let's hope the note does not fall.

Brink is another example of fiasco.

TheWinterLord

aha and there I was assuming all was good. oh well, still cant wait for my copy. I loved the demo.

Esprite

I had heard that the user reviews for Space Marine on meta-critic were being sabotaged.

Enjoyed the game so far though.

Edit:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/warhammer-40000-space-marine/index.html?tag=topten%3Ball%3B3&tag=stitialclk%3Bgamespace User score on Gamespot is an 8.8

Hazardous

I say slipsius needs to answer for this tomfoolery, I was about to spray my msn friends list to find out wtf was going on until tulkamir said it was one person..... *eyeballs slipsius*

Frump

Yeah, what the hell. For a second you had me really worried.

I'm both glad to hear it was only one guy and sorry for that one guy.

I was really afraid of more competition and less jobs.

slipsius

i heard it was more! I was told "big layoffs".

my bad if it really was only one person.

rooster

was it the person laid off who told you, and did they say something like 'everyone important has been fired!' :P
(sorry to the guy, I know it sucks)

confracto

I don't know about the last few days, but a friend of mine was laid off their 3 weeks ago, along with several other programmers, all who'd been there many years.

slipsius

a friend of mine said that a couple of them came into his work to talk to the guys after being laid off yesterday. so obviously more than 1, but i dunno how many, exactly.

Slum

Seems like typical end of dev cycle pruning. Of course like everything else in this thread this is all speculation, since we have zero information.

slipsius

true, slum. Honestly, if it was only 1 or two, then it was clearly the rumor mill at work, which I gave into. So i apologize I didnt wait till actual news came out on the topic.

Tulkamir

There were a few layoffs several weeks back, true. But still nothing huge, just normal end of the project stuff. Much as that still sucks.

GarageBay9

slipsius, looks like a learning experience to do some rumor control checking before accidentally crying wolf.

You had me seriously worried about the fate of (I'm hoping) Homeworld 3 there, for a minute.

JacqueChoi

GarageBay9 wrote: »

slipsius, looks like a learning experience to do some rumor control checking before accidentally crying wolf.

You had me seriously worried about the fate of (I'm hoping) Homeworld 3 there, for a minute.

Relic was bought out by THQ.

Homeworld was developed for Sierra.

Who was owned by Vivendi.

Who is now Activision-Blizzard.

ScudzAlmighty

who own the game rights to X-men: First Class starring...





Kevin Bacon.

z3phon

@JacqueChoi In November 2007, THQ confirmed that it had acquired the license for the Homeworld franchise, so safe to say Relic will definitely give us Homeworld 3 someday.

JacqueChoi

z3phon wrote: »

@JacqueChoi In November 2007, THQ confirmed that it had acquired the license for the Homeworld franchise, so safe to say Relic will definitely give us Homeworld 3 someday.

Emperors Teeth

Blaizer wrote: »

Sad news, with space marine they did a bad move with the game , almost all the warhammer fans are enraged.

That's not true... some always complain, but these threads on a (very) popular Games Workshop themed forum strongly show popular opinion is it's great:


(Space Marine) Warseer Chapter (Clan)

Space Marine (The game)

Space Marine Demo

I knew a guy, Claudio (CLR on forums) a few years ago, an animator who got hired whilst working on Dawn of War (1) mods. If he's still there, I hope he's okay.

PixelMasher

yea i know there were about 15 people laid off at the end of the project but they are ramping up again.

Im happy to announce I just signed a wicked deal to go back there as a senior environment/lighting artist on the 40K Dark Millennium MMO so glad to be back with the wicked crew there and getting to work in conjunction with vigil as well?! whoooooo

d1ver

Ha-ha! I love how this layoffs thread turned into getting hired thread! Congrats on the sweet gig, bro! That's really awesome - I'm glad for you:)

SgtNasty

Gratz Tim! That game looks like it will be a fun project to work on.

Tulkamir

w00t! Glad you're coming back Tim.:)

Goldo_O

Awesome news Tim! Glad to hear you're coming back