http://massivelyop.com/2016/07/07/rumor-more-layoffs-for-turbine/


Sigh....

Well, that's all folks!!

I suppose it's too much to hope that the Fat git of many chins is getting the axe? 

Signs have been on the wall in our super-special people clubhouse Ash, as for impact...I'm pretty sure we have and will continue to see the details of it in the actual game experience! 

Hey remember that last round of layoffs and turdbin but the full layoff list unlocked on the net and people (like me) were fucking with it. Ha gold.

Sad news indeed.
I think DDO/LOTRO still make money.  Their recent actions would support that.
They've just decided they can no longer be bothered and want to find something new to epicly fail at it.  Which they will so long as the current Turdbine mgmt remain, then any project is doomed to failure no matter how good the people they hire are.

Might be a chance of them selling DDO off now...


If Sev goes, then I will be happy. 
The other guys at least have some use if DDO now goes into Maintenance Mode.
I have no doubt that the majority of the retrenchments are in the MMO workers and that all the Turdbine middle mgmt sails on through untouched.  Wonder if the "dream team" of the Paiz's will move to mobile development roles?


I do wonder if U32 will ever make it live now?
Do you guys think it's likely that the retrenchments will be immediate and anything currently being worked on will be abandoned?

It would be sadly ironic for the finally updated Cannith Crafting to fall at this last hurdle.   

Anyway, this is not unexpected but still sad news nonetheless.

DropBear wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 3:24am:


It's not visionary at all if all you do is post the same DOOM predictions over and over for over a year and when it finally feels like DOOM gloat about it.

It's like predicting that a stage 4 cancer patient is going to die Soon^(TM)

TornadoJoe wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 6:32am:



99.99999% off?

noamineo wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 11:01am:


Yeah.  I wouldn't either.  But others do, obivously.  Look at who is buying advertising during the super bowl.  Clash of clans, Game of War:Fire Age (with Kate Upton no less), Boom Boom Beach, that military strategy one with Arnold Schwarznegger.  Pretty much all of them are mobile games.  That kind of advertising budget doesn't come without a serious revenue stream.

Asheras wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 11:38am:


I know, and it makes no damn sense. Unless you're guzzling store-bought potions, you can drop $60 on turbine points and play for months, just buying packs and little things here and there. Maybe $100 well-spent gets you the entire game, all races/classes/etc. Thousands of hours of gameplay and content.

Compare to: the $100 wagon of smurfberries that will keep you occupied for a few hours at most. How the fuck do people justify that?

Asheras wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 11:38am:

Have TV ad costs plummeted in the US like over here, out of interest? Online video seems to be the hot shit here getting the money.

Silky wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 12:24pm:

And you can play anywhere in down time, no PC to boot, sit at, wait for internet etc. etc. It's all about convenience, that's why the market took off, they got to the lazy would-be gamers who didn't care enough to pay for dedicated hardware but have a phone and idle cash anyway.

Spoon wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 12:52pm:


Talk about getting priorities fucked up. They lay off Turbine employees but keep cordo-cuck? I guess this is how they get that last dollar, and it's going towards not fixing old bugs, improving quality of the game and content but feeding his diabetic dependency to donuts and cola to wash it down. Turbine and WB logic being displayed in rare form here.

ThereIsNoSpoon wrote on Jul 8^th, 2016 at 1:26pm:

Oh why couldn't it have been the other way around???