Google closed down their internal game studios, which means there's no one left to fix the Stadia version of Journey to the Savage Planet.
After laying off numerous employees, Tim Sweeney, the company’s founder and CEO, sent an email about the situation. The 52-year-old businessman clarified why the layoffs happened and even shed some light on the future of Fortnite.
Good on them doing this at least.
“we’re offering a severance package that includes six months base pay and in the US/Canada/Brazil six months of Epic-paid healthcare. We’re offering to accelerate people’s stock option vesting schedule through the end of 2024 and are giving two additional years from today to exercise the options. In the US we’re also offering to vest any unearned profit sharing from their 401k. And we’ll provide benefits including career transition services and visa support where we can.”
Epic makes way too much money to have to lay people off of the spent that money smartly. Tim wasted money on exclusives for their store when it could have gone to paychecks for people.
Epic put all their eggs in one basket with fortnite, they should have continued with the development of unreal tournament and got that game going as an arena shooter that's free to play with a huge cosmetic cash shop.
But your CEO knows what their doing.... laying off people so the board doesn't see exactly how much you stuck. The usual playbook.
Baldur's Gate 3 producer Ryan Clark, who worked at Larian Studios for four years, has joined Fable developer Playground Games
Xbox is definitely the house of RPGs and it´s getting bigger and better by the day!
Fable will be fantastic!
Release a game on a struggling platform and it's broken shutdown the studio you just bought before they patch the game. That is the best damn idea I have ever read I always thought EA was the grim reaper for studios. Hell just let Google handle the studio they will kill off a studio faster then EA will. I think that is a new record for who can kill a studio faster.
I'm surprised Google didn't at least try to sell the studio first, before shutting Typhoon Studios down.
Then to ship a game that won't ever get updated is very scummy of Google too.
Google has a graveyard of flash in the pants ventures that they have dropped like hot potatoes. Not surprised
Google has a history of making products and failing to support them. This is why I never even considered the Stadia because I knew Google wouldn't support it.
We are witnessing another online only gaming graveyard bit by bit.