LEGO Universe developer NetDevil has apparently laid off a large number of staff, with stories already circulating that the company has been closed.
GamePron is still searching for an official statement from NetDevil or parent company Gazillion, but studio founder and former president Scott Brown has called out to his former colleagues via social media.
All Gazillion staff laid off the day before Thanksgiving with no severance pay, PTO, or medical insurance, with Marvel Heroes shutting down Friday.
No matter what anyone says about the game being good or bad, or how it was filled with MT, it's still heartbreaking to see a whole studio being laid off. Specially in this way. Even more considering the date!! I hope this devs find jobs soon, as they really did the best they could to keep the game alive in the past few months.
Jeez that’s horrible. How can they do that to their employees and sleep at night. >.<
Man this is sad. I was actually planning on investing time in this game as it has been in my back log.
From GameWatcher: "An official statement from Gazillion suggested that Marvel Heroes would close on December 31, with microtransactions ceasing first to allow people to play for free until the servers go down.
Now reports are coming out that all of Gazillion has been let go, the day before Thanksgiving, and that the servers will be shut down in just two days on November 24 - supposedly without warning. These reports came to us from Resetera and it looks very likely it's true."
And a Merry Xmas to all those at Gazillion, and all those players who were playing and invested time and money with Marvel Heroes, from good old saintly Disney!!!
Don't forget to wish a Merry Xmas to all those people here who support and defend these kind of online based games like they are the needed future of gaming.
I wouldn't say needed, merely a part of it. But hey, a poor man's Diablo that asked for money at every turn and was getting less frequent updates gets shut down the whole business model must be busted!
How's Path of Exile doing again?
Couldnt say it better myself. PUBG even was nominated for GOTY at games awards along with mario odyssey, zelda breath of the wild, persona 5 and Horizon. Yep merry Xmas to people who thinks these games are the future and long may these games reign supreme and hope that it will still be playable after 5 years on servers.
I feel it for all those workers and developers, to loose your job at this time of the year is horrendous. That game though was absolutely atrocious. It should never have been released.
Gazillion’s Marvel Heroes Omega enters closed beta on the PS4 today and the developer/publisher have announced that the game will be getting a drop-in/drop-out couch co-op mode for the console versions. You’ll be able to use the co-op mode in the beta too, and those who purchased a ‘founders pack’ will be able to access […]
