Silicon Knights Less Human, 26 Staff Cut

bouncybullet - 430 days 14 hours ago

Are you kidding..?

They hire extra people according to their workload.

In this case, workload-of-crap.

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Winter47th - 430 days 14 hours ago

So i guess this puts a little bump down the road regarding turning this into a trilogy.

Admit it, Too Human was a disaster a decade in the making, and Dennis, you should be with those 26 people.

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The Lazy One - 430 days 14 hours ago

It happens all the time. You hire on a lot of extra QA people and debuggers when you're in the final push. It's not surprising at all. They did have around ~200 employees, and they're only in early dev of their next game; there's no reason to have a full final QA team working on a probably barely working build.

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Rock Bottom - 430 days 10 hours ago

whahaaa ha.. hahahahaaahhhaaaaa.... Silicon Knights hahahahaa ha haha.

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Milo Garret - 430 days 7 hours ago

You only hear about it when some retarded site attempts to get hits by starting flame wars. Bojkott that site, don't click the link!

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bouncybullet - 430 days 14 hours ago

I still haven't finished that other game they made...

damn..

Too lazy to find out the name.

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Omegasyde - 430 days 12 hours ago

That game is called "fracture" good sir.

Sorta reminds me of when the first Red Faction came out...
Cool concept, horrible under executed in actual gameplay.

Timeshift was somewhat cool with it being manipulating time and all, but man the story sucked and wasn't worth a replay.

Combine the ability to control time, control the ground, and jump buildinging like mirror's edge and we have a recipe for a big
geek-gasm.

Add online and you have a geek-orgy.

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TheDesperado - 429 days 23 hours ago

2 hours if you remove the need to upgrade your armor every 3 seconds.
So, you played it 10 times? What a nut!

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Omegasyde - 430 days 12 hours ago

Lair was alright but Haze my god that game should of came out in 2006.

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outlawlife - 430 days 11 hours ago

not really spin, no matter how well the game would ahve done if it were better the same thing happens

unless they have something big and immediate to work on (silicon knights is too small) then every development house does this

they aren't going to keep people such as testers and people who work on the tails of a project around eating up money when they have no work for them

i dont know the usual numbers or how big a staff SK has kept in the past but i'm willing to bet it has been proportionate throughout

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Omegasyde - 430 days 12 hours ago

True that. Unfortantely most of those layoffs aren't because companies need too...

but because they are preparing...

Stupid economics of CEO's is what got the whole problem started. Now instead of cutting back bonuses, they are cutting from the bottom end instead of the top.

Every CEO needs his owns personal helicopter right?

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morganfell - 430 days 8 hours ago

Sorry, misdirection won't work here. When successful game houses add personnel in the wake of a great game, trying to spin this doesn't detract from the truth. Denis Dyack is the biggest piece of poop since a blue whale took a dump, SK sucks, their game sucked, and MS has no use for them or parts 2 and 3 of a really bad game.

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