Post by Morreion on Apr 1, 2015 14:41:04 GMT -5
Perfect World is a huge company in the F2P world that owns Cryptic Studios...
Perfect World Entertainment hit with potentially massive layoffs (MOP)
Layoffs have hit Perfect World Entertainment. It was first rumored in a tweet by Ben PerLee, who had previously worked as PR for the company; the tweet has since been deleted, but a response calling it “a slaughter” remains. Matt Miller also tweeted today confirming that he had been laid off, having previously been working on Star Trek Online.
Cryptic layoffs alone totaled 18 people (MOP)
Massively OP has been contacted by a Cryptic employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about the Perfect World/Cryptic layoffs yesterday that one former PWE staffer called a “slaughter.”
Our source tells us that 18 people were let go from Cryptic itself, approximately 14% of the studio. Half of those were Neverwinter staff, evening out the Neverwinter and Star Trek Online teams (we do know some STO staff, including former City of Heroes lead designer Matt Miller and the game’s community manager, were among those let go). The source believes the PWE Redwood Shores offices were hit significantly harder; our source reluctantly agreed that “yes, PWE is mostly to blame” for the debacle.
MMORPG fans will recall that Cryptic has pulled at least one developer from live projects to work on unannounced games. Those projects will continue: “The secret projects are unaffected,” says our source. “They’re a big focus for the company moving forward.”
Champions Online “is being left to chug along,” our source says. “It doesn’t take much to keep it afloat.” So there’s that.
“There’s an understandably somber attitude around here, but we’re trucking along,” our source concluded. “That’s to be expected when you’re pulled into an ‘impromptu company meeting’ by an email from the CEO the previous day.”
Perfect World suffers more layoffs, this time in the EU (MOP)
Massively OP has been contacted by a former Perfect World employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about a fresh round of layoffs to hit the company, this time at its European branch.
Our source says that around five or six people responsible for the entirety of the Russian market have been let go without notice, along with a French community manager, a German community manager, and an assistant product manager. The community managers had apparently been with the company only a few months. The Russian layoffs particularly surprised our source, as the source believes that Russia alone was responsible for a significant portion of PWE’s European income at one point.
Perfect World Entertainment hit with potentially massive layoffs (MOP)
Layoffs have hit Perfect World Entertainment. It was first rumored in a tweet by Ben PerLee, who had previously worked as PR for the company; the tweet has since been deleted, but a response calling it “a slaughter” remains. Matt Miller also tweeted today confirming that he had been laid off, having previously been working on Star Trek Online.
Cryptic layoffs alone totaled 18 people (MOP)
Massively OP has been contacted by a Cryptic employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about the Perfect World/Cryptic layoffs yesterday that one former PWE staffer called a “slaughter.”
Our source tells us that 18 people were let go from Cryptic itself, approximately 14% of the studio. Half of those were Neverwinter staff, evening out the Neverwinter and Star Trek Online teams (we do know some STO staff, including former City of Heroes lead designer Matt Miller and the game’s community manager, were among those let go). The source believes the PWE Redwood Shores offices were hit significantly harder; our source reluctantly agreed that “yes, PWE is mostly to blame” for the debacle.
MMORPG fans will recall that Cryptic has pulled at least one developer from live projects to work on unannounced games. Those projects will continue: “The secret projects are unaffected,” says our source. “They’re a big focus for the company moving forward.”
Champions Online “is being left to chug along,” our source says. “It doesn’t take much to keep it afloat.” So there’s that.
“There’s an understandably somber attitude around here, but we’re trucking along,” our source concluded. “That’s to be expected when you’re pulled into an ‘impromptu company meeting’ by an email from the CEO the previous day.”
Perfect World suffers more layoffs, this time in the EU (MOP)
Massively OP has been contacted by a former Perfect World employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about a fresh round of layoffs to hit the company, this time at its European branch.
Our source says that around five or six people responsible for the entirety of the Russian market have been let go without notice, along with a French community manager, a German community manager, and an assistant product manager. The community managers had apparently been with the company only a few months. The Russian layoffs particularly surprised our source, as the source believes that Russia alone was responsible for a significant portion of PWE’s European income at one point.
