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Title: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: UnSub on February 12, 2009, 07:40:06 AM
Just to keep up with such things (http://www.brokentoys.org/2009/02/11/enough-with-the-goddamn-layoffs/).

It might not deserve its own topic. Merge if necessary.

Basically the Birmingham Brighton office is completely empty, which leaves CoH/V Europe with no staff of its own. I expect the Europe servers to be merged with the NA servers. Not sure how it might impact on other titles in Europe. Apparently there are jobs for people to go to within NCsoft, if they want them.

Don't know about Austin or how that effects anything.

EDIT: fixed location


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Jimbo on February 12, 2009, 07:52:27 AM
Wait?  Weren't the serves together, then with the Europe launch they let some people move to those servers, and now they are shutting them down?  Wow...


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Draegan on February 12, 2009, 08:26:15 AM
I didn't click on the link, but wasn't something like the announces a few months ago?


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Lantyssa on February 12, 2009, 09:05:16 AM
He has a nice entry talking about corperate ethics which ties into all the layoffs in the gaming industry.  It's good to know that despite our political alignments being different and perhaps coming at the problem from different angles, we're in full agreement about taking care of your emplolyees.


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Signe on February 12, 2009, 10:10:24 AM
I didn't click on the link, but wasn't something like the announces a few months ago?

Are you afraid Lum will pass along a keylogger?  He's so sneaky!


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Draegan on February 12, 2009, 10:40:06 AM
I didn't click on the link, but wasn't something like the announces a few months ago?

Are you afraid Lum will pass along a keylogger?  He's so sneaky!

No doubt.  However I was being lazy.


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Signe on February 12, 2009, 10:41:47 AM
Ah.  I can relate to that.  Lots.


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Lum on February 12, 2009, 11:09:52 AM
I didn't click on the link, but wasn't something like the announces a few months ago?

Are you afraid Lum will pass along a keylogger?  He's so sneaky!

I'm spending Signe's Horizons gold RIGHT NOW.


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: Xanthippe on February 12, 2009, 02:21:08 PM
If you'll notice, Lum already stole Schild's avatard.



Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: UnSub on February 12, 2009, 04:21:29 PM
I didn't click on the link, but wasn't something like the announces a few months ago?

This is the latest round of retrenchments. It's NCsoft hitting the underperforming NCWest division. Again.


Title: Re: NCsoft releases a few more staff in the West
Post by: UnSub on February 12, 2009, 04:23:34 PM
Wait?  Weren't the serves together, then with the Europe launch they let some people move to those servers, and now they are shutting them down?  Wow...

The European servers have been up for a while, but I don't think the German- and French-(?) servers would have enough players to justify continuing and all the English speaking players can fit into the NA servers.

EDIT: Adam Martin has some good insights - bye bye NCOrigin, hello NCArenaNet (http://t-machine.org/index.php/2009/02/12/ncwest-stage-1-complete-farewell-european-mmo-industry/).