When you forget why your company exists, the customer.
Upper management at this company has very obviously been barring their developers from doing what is best for the game. This is what happens when you prevent your people from doing what they need too, non utilized talent is a waste. You people in upper management know this.
Turns out “creating patterns” of crappy, dumbed down content and horrific ability spamming PvP sandboxes has driven the voice that matters, your customer’s; to other places. This game isn’t a drug that millions are stuck doing, people will spend their time doing other things if your product sucks. The “live service” means that you need to deliver, not that the customer is to deliver you money. This is a clear misconception that you have in management over there.
Your devs have been telling you this, and people have been clearly fed up. The customer pays your bills, not your ego or honestly terrible production philosophies.
At the end of the day it is awful that your developers have to face layoffs because of your incompetence. Shame on you guys, treat your employees better by listening to your customers in the future.
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3 RepliesI like the game, but you/I have to detach myself from the fact that it can deliver something to me 24/7. However, if you ask people to pay $99/€, then it also creates a desire for "more". I took a break and was surprised at all the changes. Now it's enough again. It annoys me when I read the following: [i]"It kind of feels like [upper management] is being very two-faced about it," said Guilhem Lagarde, a product support technician at Bungie affected by Wednesday's layoffs, in an interview with TechCrunch. "Like they're telling us one thing, but behind the scenes, something else is happening."[/i] We will see.