Layoffs at SOE (DBG)..

[Stabulous]

Dave "Smokejumper" Georgeson (Director of Development for the EverQuest brand, @DaveGeorgeson)
Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Community Manager, @Brasse)
Akil “Lyndro” Hooper (Everquest II developer, @akilh)
Aaron “Gnobrin” Bisnett (Weapon and Armor designer for 12 years, @Gnobrin)
Douglas “Endymion” VanDerveer (Everquest II game designer, twitter page deleted)
Annah "Amnerys" Bianchi (Community Manager, @amnerys)
Aimee “Ashlanne” Rekoske (Community Relations Project Manager, @Ashlanne)
Eric "Felgon" Smith (Associate Producer for EverQuest Next and Landmark, @F4Felgon)
Steve "Moorgard" Danuser (Head of Story, @Moorgard)
Tiffany Spence (Social Media, @JustTiffy)
Noah Watkins (Graphic designer, @noahwatkins)


not the full list, but a good chunk of them.

http://www.reddit.com/r/EQNext/comments/2vkr7c/is_it_safe_to_think_the_sky_is_falling_yet/coij9p5

official statement here: https://forums.station.sony.com/soe/index.php?threads/daybreak-company-update.11500068779/

[Herp]

Wow, that didnt take long.

[Swish]

H1Z1 staff in tact by the look of it... lol

[GnashingOfTeeth]

This is called a shutdown and RIF... reduction in force for the basement types that never had a real job.

[Telin]

Aw Brasse was so nice!

[katrik]

So no EQnext.. ? = (

[Swish]

So no EQnext.. ? = (

Not without a huge cash shop I don't think :/

[Herp]

So no EQnext.. ? = (

Its still in the works, or in other words, has not been officially scrapped yet. They still have a team of no-namers working on the project.

[Adolphus]

Not without a huge cash shop I don't think :/

Was always going to have a huge cash shop anyways . . .


Pretty sure this means its done though. Would be no reason to lay off the director of the game unless they are cancelling, right?

Either way, smokejumper should have been canned years ago. He and some of these other goons were in part responsible for destroying Everquest imo.

[Paleman]

glad that gremlin motherfucker cocksmoker is gone. such a useless motherfucker. I still cant even pinpoint what he actually does for anything. Insubstantial motherfucker, FUCK that gremlin ass mofucka.

[Paleman]

i love how all the dumb fucks think he is the face of everquest. We all know that the oxycotin king is the true illegitimate face of EQ respect.

[katrik]

Boo..

[Lemiddar]

H1Z1 staff in tact by the look of it... lol

A few people from h1z1 were let go, but seems like the smallest impact. Only one person.. uh.. worth noting? That's not how I intended that to sound, but you get the idea. That person also happens to be the guy who came up with the name. Fun fact!

[India]

Other layoffs include Jeff Butler and Michelle "Elionia" Butler

[Tankdan]

I wonder how many employees SOE really has if they had to let go of every single recognizable face outside of smedley.

[pharmakos]

they're dumb for getting rid of Moorgard

[Ezalor]

Paleman calm down bro holy shit lol

[wycca]

Thats alot of old names getting let go. Wonder why some of them were still there.

[Stormfists]

Called it months ago, EQN will never be realised.

[BurgyK]

Shocker. In other news, water is wet

[Cymeon]

glad that gremlin motherfucker cocksmoker is gone. such a useless motherfucker. I still cant even pinpoint what he actually does for anything. Insubstantial motherfucker, FUCK that gremlin ass mofucka.

http://alltheragefaces.com/img/usercreated/4f89eac3176fe.png

[Stabulous]

Updated complete list of layoffs: http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2vmp48/master_list_of_developers_affected_by_the_layoffs/

[Paleman]

kind of funny, when SOE did layoffs a year or two ago they let gninja go. then because of his communication with eq2 raiders they had to rehire him. now the people who were safe from layoffs then are getting fired and he is safe.

ironing.

[Gooch]

When you're bought out the combination of high salary and low production usually equals unemployed. SOE has been bloated and mismanaged since it started. They just got lucky in that the innovation they created carried that bloat and mismanagement until competition arrived. Since roughly 2004 SOE hasn't been a winner in its market.

[Formshifter]

So no EQnext.. ? = (

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/e1/e197fdd68df68d49ce8d3b4637093a0cd9b6a9555ab80c40c5 bef9aa83fbdc5b.jpg


its better this way, kat.. its better this way.

[Lune]

Lyndro was such a cool GM back on RZ. Don't know what kind of dev he turned out being, but that alone makes me sad.