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Amazon's Blue Protocol Devs Will Avoid Layoffs In The Wake Of MMO's Global Cancelation | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited August 28 in News & Features Discussion

imageAmazon's Blue Protocol Devs Will Avoid Layoffs In The Wake Of MMO's Global Cancelation | MMORPG.com

Last night, Bandai Namco Online and Amazon Games announced Blue Protocol will be shutting down and its global release was canceled. Today, in a statement to MMORPG.com, we've learned that Amazon's developers working on the release will avoid layoffs, and instead be moved to other projects.

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  • Elidien_gaElidien_ga Member UncommonPosts: 385
    In a rather bleak year for gaming development and job losses, this is some good news.
    Dhampir
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  • cheezyweaselcheezyweasel Member UncommonPosts: 17
    we have now reached the "well at least nobody is getting laid off" stage of cope for AGS
    Scot
  • GreatnessGreatness Member UncommonPosts: 2,188
    Who in AGS is in charge of choosing what games to localize?

    ~Greatness~

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  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,674
    Might as well just launch the game in the west if you're gonna keep the people on, unless the LoTR doesn't even have a team yet, otherwise you're just paying people for nothing.
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,750
    It's not the devs fault the game tanked. That's leadership. The EIEIO's, the producers, the VP of marketing who probably drove the monetization which drove a lot of the game design. The developers just built what they were told to build.

    Granted I know a lot of people in gaming use the term "developers" to mean "anyone who works at a game studio" in spite of that not being the professional definition of the word. Artist are not developers, QA are not developers, executives are not developers, the janitor is not a developer. The people slinging code are developers.

    As long as their skills are sharp they can be easily transitioned to another team.
    Phoenix_Hawkor1h1m3
  • dinogndinogn Member UncommonPosts: 52
    Amateur team managed to translate game like archeage or black desert in a few month, at least enough to be playable, but big devs need years to do that, and also add function that nobody asked for ....
  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    They also yesterday announced they are all in on DEI and catering to the modern Western audience.

    So buh bye Bandai Namco.
    EliteSin
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