Redundancies at Goodgame Studios - news are published today - at least 100 people to be laid off, possibly more , some reports say 200
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Goodgame aka Greedgame management have spent two years ruining the Empire game and driving their customer base to other games. The proactive being let go makes perfect sense with what we have seen in game. It became all about how much they could make, not their customers. This was inevitable. I said this company would crumble and it is starting.
Customer service is terrible. Support is sketchy and never on weekends. They believe they deserve time off even when the game is down (USA! was down 2 1/2 days).
When you don't value ALL your players and make being competitive virtually impossible to the average player your demise is only a matter of time.
The actual layoff began today and the figure first heard was to be 400, but it could be 600 or more which is over half their staff.
The company has blindly expanded thinking "big is best" while ignoring similar events happening at other Hamburg studios in the recent past.
With no real experience of game development, sales or hiring of experts in this field they have filled the company with inexperienced but inexpensive interns who if reports are to believed have spent the majority of their time standing around doing very little at all.
Those who attempted to be proactive were, for the most part seen as being critical of "the process" and would invariably be let go.
Creativity, passion and positivity were ignored in favour of sycophancy and a host of vapid yes-men.