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Daybreak Games Hit With Mass Layoffs, Employees Confirm - MMORPG.com
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Daybreak Games Hit With Mass Layoffs, Employees Confirm - MMORPG.com
Daybreak Games, developers of PlanetSide Arena, has been hit with mass layoffs according to former employees on Twitter and Reddit.
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BTW, DCUO is really a fun, casual game if you're wanting something different to do and not wanting to play seriously.
That sound unlikely. If Daybreak wanted to make a new MMO like Everquest, then they'd use their Everquest IP, but I don't think they want because they don't have the money to make a large scale production and a cheap niche game that they might have money for would be too much in competition against EQ 1 and EQ 2.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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And those commenting on Vanguard... I'd love for Vanguard to make a comeback.. that MMO while having many issues was still one of the best game worlds I've ever played in and I've played damn near every MMO since UO. The size and scope, the open world dungeons that were much bigger than any instanced dungeon we get in this horrible mmo market, I mean I could go on. But no way do I want Daybreaks hands on Vanguard anymore. They're shit. Again its horrible people losing their jobs but until this companies higher ups go bye bye, this company isn't doing shit.
If I want a world in which people can purchase success and power with cash, I'll play Real Life. Keep Virtual Worlds Virtual!
Also some shady background maneuvering when the US government brought sanctions against the Russian billionaire who was the beneficiary owner of Daybreak involving attempts to remove previously published documents including press release to mask his current involvement.
In short, they just suck.
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
The Russian Millionaire bullshit has been disproved so many times at this point its not even funny. They are owned by Inception Media group LLC, based in Santa Monica, Ca. which is owned/run by David Borshell and Andy Reimer.
Moving on, I am (was) a huge fan of DBG but three minutes into Arena, which I was already scratching my head why they made a BR at a time when the genre is overrun with BR's, I knew this polished turd was done.
It seems to me they are setting themselves up to be shuttered or more likely bought out. Many companies would like to get their hands on the IPs these mouth breathing idiots hold on to, and lets hope someone else can do something worthwhile with them.
As to your question, I think people see a lot of potential in the IPs the idiots are holding and doing nothing with, and they are angered by that. I am starting to agree. Actually I wholly agree at this point. DBG squandered golden opportunity after golden opportunity and at this point they should sell off to a game company that can actually make something out of the IPs they are slowly letting die.
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I've said this before, but Planetside 1 felt like a group of passionate developers and designers sat around someone's living room and said "How can we make the most engaging and enjoyable combined arms multiplayer game?"
Planetside 2 felt like a bunch of C level executives sat around in a boardroom and said "How can we wrangle as many dollarydoo's from our consumer's wallets while putting the minimum effort possible into the game mechanics?"
I played Planetside 1 for hundreds of hours and had some of my most overall enjoyable gaming moments in my entire life while playing it. I still remember dozens of specific moments from that game.
I have one memory like that from Planetside 2 and it's really only because I was exploiting a bad game design and farming hundreds of kills from it.
It was a completely unenjoyable grind that wore my morale down to a nub and then slammed the door on my ass when I wasn't willing to pay to bypass it anymore.
Why it has failed is because Daybreak did absolutely NOTHING except ride the wind,trying to rely on what was already failing when SOE had it.
So if you are any kind of competent business,would you ASSUME you could simply run the course and do better than what SOE did?This is why i feel there was more to this,they never intended to make money.
I feel this had more to do with the illegal stuff that was going on at that same time and the government stepping in to investigate.To sum it up without a million lines ,i feel it was more about a Russian operation attaining a business number/license within the USA.Other than that simple explanation it spirals into much much more than that.
I have no question what so ever this owner still has a lot of ties with the Russian Ogliarch and being a relative makes it all the more believable.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Whether DBG have made the "best" decisions - no idea.
However think of DBG as a home for the terminally ill.
The possibility that DBG could turn around the former SoE games - even after Sony had wrote off huge losses - probably less than a million to one.
This news should not come as a surprise, only the timing was in question.
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I still think Daybreak has a ways to go until it goes under. Mass layoffs and then mass hiring is pretty common for this company.
DCUO wasn't an "SoE" game when it launched it was a joint venture involving Sony/SoE along with DC and WarnerBros. No indication that DC and WarnerBros are out of the loop. Indeed the way that DCUO was "hived off" with JE being brought in to run fits with it DC and WarnerBros still being involved.
Which may - may - help keep the game going somewhat longer.