The bad news just keeps on rolling. Hot off the heels of June's NPD results showing the worst industry performance for almost a decade, it's also been made public that Sony Online Entertainment has laid off 5% of its workforce.
"In a move to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs, Sony Online Entertainment has eliminated 5% of its full-time workforce, equaling 41 people," SOE confirmed in a statement. "SOE looks forward to continuing its leadership role in the online games industry as it celebrates the highly successful launch of Free Realms, the 10-year commemoration of its ground-breaking EverQuest franchise, and the continued performance of the company’s other games."
It always sucks when innocent people lose their jobs, but it sadly seems that such things shall continue to happen. But hey, Activision's still doing great, so at least it's not all bad, right?
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5:40 PM on 07.17.2009
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And then we will blame our dirty, dirty capitalism.
China will be happier, though.
It's a shame they make a positive light of people being unemployed. Yeah it's all good and amazing for Sony's CEO's sitting in their high chairs with swimming pools full of money, but not for people struggling to pay the mortgage.
I hope dev teams of major releases stay intact, changing team members in the middle of a project is never good.
It's kind of like getting mad at Master Chief when Windows crashes.
Anyway, it sucks when anyone gets fired from anything due to the economy. Although, by your own response, I have the feeling you arn't really responsible for things such as 'paying bills.' Empathy is often difficult for teenagers.