Relic Layoffs

slipsius · Sep 2011

huge layoffs at relic today

I hope those of you affected land on your feet ASAP.

Tulkamir · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

LOL.

I wonder if it was Adam.

EDIT: That sounded prickish, I'm joking

PixelMasher · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

?... 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 · Sep 2011

Sad news, with space marine they did a bad move with the game

, almost all the warhammer fans are enraged.

ae. · Sep 2011

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

Andreas · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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

Esprite · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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

my bad if it really was only one person.

rooster · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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

Kevin Bacon.

z3phon · Sep 2011

@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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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 · Sep 2011

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