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[meiam]

The Marvel Rivals team was just laid off by Netease. https://www.resetera.com/threads/ma...t-he-and-his-team-were-just-laid-off.1112481/

Just the american team

As player numbers soar, NetEase lays off the American Marvel Rivals team | Massively Overpowered

Will probably be maintained, with a low content turnout, by an asian team for lower cost.

 

[BrawlMan]

Just the american team

As player numbers soar, NetEase lays off the American Marvel Rivals team | Massively Overpowered

Will probably be maintained, with a low content turnout, by an asian team for lower cost.

Netease can still fuck off for doing that.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Just the american team

As player numbers soar, NetEase lays off the American Marvel Rivals team | Massively Overpowered

Will probably be maintained, with a low content turnout, by an asian team for lower cost.

Makes sense.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann doesn't have the "confidence" to plan for sequels: "I'm not saving some idea for the future"

Druckmann believes "you're jinxing yourself" if you think about a sequel when you're still working on the first game

www.gamesradar.com

Well…. At the very least the dude seems to have some sense in knowing when to stop

Problem is he didn’t.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Just the american team

As player numbers soar, NetEase lays off the American Marvel Rivals team | Massively Overpowered

Will probably be maintained, with a low content turnout, by an asian team for lower cost.

Netease can still fuck off for doing that.

As much as I hate Netease with my gut, I do have to say the layoff was greatly exaggerated. I feel bad for six people who got laid off, but it seriously is a paltry number compared to the likes of Microsoft.

The part that everyone seems to be ignoring is the fact that the core team led by the main director in China is still intact.

We want to reassure our fanbase that the core development team for Marvel Rivals, which continues to be led by Lead Producer Weicong Wu and Game Creative Director Guangyun Chen in Guangzhou, China, remains fully committed to delivering an exceptional experience. We are investing more, not less, into the evolution and growth of this game. We’re excited to deliver new super hero characters, maps, features, and content to ensure an engaging live service experience for our worldwide player base.

Meaning the US team was probably deemed unnecessary, for whatever reason. I mean if the team consisted of just six people, I am not sure how critical their roles were

 

[bluegate]

Meaning the US team was probably deemed unnecessary, for whatever reason. I mean if the team consisted of just six people, I am not sure how critical their roles were

On the flip side, with a popular game like that, did they really need to cut those six salaries?

 

[Casual Shinji]

Not in a million years would this've been on my bingo card.

 

[Bedinsis]

Valve has released the source code to Team Fortress 2.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Valve has released the source code to Team Fortress 2.

Which is weird, because we very seldom see this happen for games that are still active and popular.

 

[FakeSympathy]

On the flip side, with a popular game like that, did they really need to cut those six salaries?

True enough. I guess it really comes down to what exactly they were doing. Netease could’ve moved them to another team, for example. But if the main team is based in China, I guess there would be issues with relocation, obtaining the correct work visa, etc.

 

[meiam]

Not in a million years would this've been on my bingo card.

Was that one of the anime with a weird localization? Like they had amateur doing the VA or something?

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Was that one of the anime with a weird localization? Like they had amateur doing the VA or something?

It was less that and more that the people writing the localized script barely knew any Japanese, so instead they wrote their own script based on the visuals and what they thought would be funny.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Phil Spencer is back at it again, spewing nonsense

XboxEra Interviews Phil Spencer

Phil Spencer sat down with the XboxEra Podcast crew to catch up with us and celebrate our 250th Episode. Here's a lengthy written version (edited for brevity) along with a standalone video for you to enjoy. #Xbox

xboxera.com

Phil: It’s maybe not what I was going to say on stand at the time. But yeah, I would love to make all of the money for all of the games that we ship right, like obviously we make more on our own platform. It’s one of the reasons that investing in our own platform is important. But there are people, whether it’s their libraries on a PlayStation or Nintendo, whether it’s they like the controller better, they just like the games that are there.

And I don’t want to then look at that and say, well, there’s no way that we should be able to build a business there, find fans of our franchises there. I’m not trying to move them all over to Xbox anymore. People were all so invested in where our games are. Let’s just allow more people to play and yes, the 70% that we make on games on other platforms is helpful to us being able to build great portfolios like we showed at the Dev Direct and I hope this will continue to show through the rest of the year.

Phil: I think it’s just being honest and transparent about where the games are showing, and we actually even had this discussion last year for the June showcase, and by the time we kind of made our decision, we couldn’t get all of the assets done and it felt weird to have some of them in and some of them out.

But I just want to be transparent with people – for shipping on Nintendo Switch, we’re gonna put that. For shipping on PlayStation, on Steam…People should know the storefronts where they can get our games, but I want people to be able to experience our Xbox community in our games and everything we have to offer, on every screen we can.

And obviously not every screen is equal. Yeah, like there’s certain things we can’t do on the other closed platforms that we can do on open platforms, cloud – it’s different. But games should be the thing that we’re focused on. And the strategy that we have allows us to do big games, while also supporting our native platform from hardware to the platform and services that we have and that’s going to be our approach.

And I know it’s not what everybody else is doing, but I just believe games should be the thing that’s at the forefront. Maybe it’s because of how I’ve grown up in this industry. I came from building games. But I think the games are the things that I see growing in their strength in what we’re doing and it’s because more people can play. So yeah, I’m just trying to be open and transparent with people.

So yeah, any chance of "xbox gaming" making a comeback is probably dead as shit. Why not rebrand as "MS gaming" nowm since he seem to hate seeing their own consoles being successful?

 

[Dreiko]

Playing the whole ass weekend, bruh.

Hell yeah! I put in a bunch of time already, game's incredible. The netcode is really strong too, I was playing people from japan just fine and I'm in vegas.

 

[Bedinsis]

Which is weird, because we very seldom see this happen for games that are still active and popular.

How many of Valve's titles started out as mods made by fans?

I haven't kept up with Valve's policies but I know at one point they were happy that people could make their own custom content for Team Fortress 2 and actually make money from it; letting people have access to the source code is further encouraging people to be creative with the engine they've made.

It should also be mentioned that the webcomic they've made based the game ended quite definitely last year, 17 years after the game premiered. They might be working on Team Fortress 3.

 

[Meximagician]

Was that one of the anime with a weird localization? Like they had amateur doing the VA or something?

The story I was told (take with an appropriate amount of salt) was that the original didn't do very well in Japan, but its distribution rights were sold as part of a package deal. Unfortunately, it did so poorly that the original production team hadn't bothered creating the usual character profiles or episode recaps that help localizers. Since the English production team wanted it ready on schedule, the writing team was told to wing it: they'd watch each episode, slap together a script that roughly fit, then fill in the gaps with rapid-fire screwball humor and 4th wall breaks.