Sony Online Entertainment Layoffs

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  ExcessiveZero polycounter lvl 12

  Aug 2013

  All I know is when a big company like SOE does something like this its just for More money for investors, less for people who actually make shit.
  
  SOE for sure is the kind of company to do a big push make a big game, then it gives everyone the sack and mans their games with skeleton crews.

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  ErichWK polycounter lvl 16

  Aug 2013

  Don't they need all those artists for Everquest Next?

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  Striff polycounter lvl 19

  Aug 2013

  I worked there for 2 years before I decided to get out of the industry. Sad to see a former company not do well, but I have to say the level of talent that is working there now seems a lot higher than when I was working there back in 2006.

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  Striff polycounter lvl 19

  Aug 2013

  MeshModeler, if you can answer, do you think that the new Player Studio in PS2 made some members of the team more expendable?

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  Autocon polycounter lvl 16

  Aug 2013

  Really sad to hear about this having lots of friends there from when I interned
  
  I believe they cut all teams that were not the EQNext team. IE Plantside 2, Free Realms, Clone Wars (as the TV show is gone so is new content for the game) Really high number of people let go from what I am hearing.

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  reverendK polycounter lvl 7

  Aug 2013

  more jobs gone in san diego. ugh.

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  [HP] polycounter lvl 17

  Aug 2013

  Damn... this is horrible news. Sony teams have been very stable these last few years.

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  cochtl polycounter lvl 20

  Aug 2013

  Wha? Stable? If you mean having a job that is contingent on the amount of time left on the project with no thought put into the future of the team and with shareholder interests placed above developers' efforts, then yes, by all accounts lots of studios are stable. Carry on.

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  Bobby J Rice 3rd

  Aug 2013

  [HP] wrote: »

  Damn... this is horrible news. Sony teams have been very stable these last few years.

  
  
  
  ND, Santa Monica,..maybe. I wonder how much of that was contract.

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  Rurouni Strife polycounter lvl 10

  Aug 2013

  Contract and temp workers typically don't get announced as laid off. It's on of the benefits to the companies that use contract workers. Your contract ends and you're gone. The studio doesn't have to announce anything since you don't technically work for Sony/Microsoft/Activision/ect.

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  Alphavader polycounter lvl 11

  Aug 2013

  sad news
  time to learn programming...

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  RMeeks

  Aug 2013

  ^, best of luck to those affected.
  
  *I said sad news as well...*

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