Bioware Laid Off People

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-05-23 08:24

  Hey folks, since you’re reading this you may likely have heard that we’ve done some restructuring here on the SWTOR team. Sadly, we are bidding farewell to some talented, passionate and exceptionally hard-working people who helped make SWTOR a reality. Impacting people’s lives this way is always very hard, but we’re ensuring the affected people are treated with dignity, fairness and respect.
  
  Looking back at launch, we all came together and did something historic. We executed one of the largest, most successful and stable launches of any MMO yet in industry history. That is not an easy feat for any development team or company and we are humbled and honored by our fan community’s strong support both at launch and beyond.
  
  Looking forward, the studio remains vibrant and passionate about our many upcoming initiatives for Star Wars: The Old Republic. We still have a very substantial development team working on supporting and growing the game, and we feel we are in a strong position, with your continued involvement and feedback, to continue to build Star Wars: The Old Republic as one of the most compelling and successful online experiences in the world today. There are many strong initiatives planned for cool new content and new features that we’re excited to tell you about in the upcoming weeks and months.
  
  Rest assured that we remain dedicated to delivering a high quality service in SWTOR to you, our fans, and we will continue to support and grow Star Wars: The Old Republic over the weeks, months and years to come.
  
  Thanks,
  Greg and Ray

  
  
  http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=4435219#post4435219
  
  and here's the reddit post
  

  They laid off 25% of the staff (not contractors), including your favorite community manager, and going to be 1/3 by the time they are done. About 100 people gone from every department. The game is dead, the design direction has no clue what they are doing and never has. MMO decisions being made by people who have never played and don't like MMO's and just blatantly not listening to the people that do know what they are talking about. EA has basically given up on the game, it will not recover from this.
  

  
  
  http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/tzxel/my_friend_just_got_laid_off_from_bioware_swtor/
  
  obviously, they don't know how to manage a MMORPG...
  https://mabination.com/threads/47010-The-admins-for-Star-Wars-Old-Republic-takes-things-too-seriously
• Sinsie wrote on 2012-05-23 08:42
  Is this a surprise to anyone? At this point I'm only left wondering how far they'll go to keep up the "doing fine!" act while their ship's sinking.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-05-23 09:02

  Quote from Sinsie;870847:

  Is this a surprise to anyone? At this point I'm only left wondering how far they'll go to keep up the "doing fine!" act while their ship's sinking.

  
  
  Until they get another golden poo.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-05-23 13:17
  Firing several good people is always a sign of either horrendous management or significant restructuring, probably affecting the quality of the previous product in a bad way.
  
  
  But maybe it works out well, depending on the greater plan, if there is one.
  
  
  Though whoever make the decisions at Bioware have been dumb recently anyway, so... looks rather authoritarian to me anyway, such a significant cut could only be made consensually in economically exceptionally strenuous times, and that spells doom unless the leader is universally exceptionally competent.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-05-23 15:39
  Time to make it free to play.
• Froglord wrote on 2012-05-24 02:25
  I blaim IGN and their infinite supply of coca cola.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-05-24 07:11

  Quote from TLCBonaparte;870976:

  Time to make it free to play.

  
  
  there's only 500k subscribers at max...
  and diablo 3 is out