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Radical Entertainment staff levels slashed Comments by Dan Pearson

14 August, 2008

Nearly half of employees to go.

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sickpuppysoftware
14/08/08 @ 16:43
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If I ever worked for a boss that used 'realigning staffing' whilst putting me out of work they would find themselves quickly requiring 'nasal realignment'
NickDude
14/08/08 @ 16:44
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boooo. i aint liking this activision-blizzard deals. all the games are getting the chop, as are the people. so its bad for the industry.boo greedy activision execs
Doctor_What
14/08/08 @ 16:50
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That's yet more people looking for work. Damn.
ukcodemonkey
14/08/08 @ 16:59
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From one who works in the game industry, I'll have to consider if I want to continue to pay WOW subs to Blizzard after this. :-@
Vin
14/08/08 @ 17:30
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Shitty.

Welcome to the age of a handful of publishers left in the industry.
BlankOBlank!
14/08/08 @ 17:34
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...and self publishing becoming ever more viable.

So it's not all bad.

Crappy for the Radical boys and girls though. I believe this was the first they heard of the numbers that are going. They don't know who's getting the chop yet.
konstantinos
14/08/08 @ 17:37
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capitalism shows its ugly face once again... it's got a pretty one too, for sure... but that is becoming more and more scarce the more time passes, doesn't it...? sometimes, I really miss the nineties... quiting one day (never fired), hired somewhere else the next day (always with better pay)...

pity abouit scarface... that was a funny, rude game...

cheers...
SpikeRocks
14/08/08 @ 18:01
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Activision Blizzard, the new EA.
Watkins381
14/08/08 @ 19:21
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radical murdered crash bandicoot so they deserved it
Royal Fool
14/08/08 @ 20:11
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Watkins381: That's a stupid assumption. Vivendi owned the Crash IP at the time, so they naturally were ultimately responsible for how the game would look.
Cyclone
14/08/08 @ 20:19
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Bit shitty. It's not as if Activision Blizzard are short of money with the hundreds of millions of dollars that WoW's 10 million subscriber base bring in every month.
actionfitz
14/08/08 @ 21:55
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"Activision Blizzard is committed to making AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE and has elected at this time to reduce the number of titles that Radical is developing from four games to two...Therefore, we will be proportionately reducing the size of our studio."
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fixed :)
smelly
14/08/08 @ 22:06
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@Watkins381: May i be the first to say : Fuck you you fucking asshole fucking twat of a fucking kid. One of these days you'll get laid, but i doubt it'll be someone you dont fucking pay for.

Fucker.
el_pollo_diablo
14/08/08 @ 22:30
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I wish the very best to all those now jobless.

If any of them are reading this, now is your chance to give Ron Gilbert a ring and make a really amazing game together. See it as a blessing.
space ace
15/08/08 @ 07:54
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brütal legend
nekotcha
15/08/08 @ 08:34
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Euphemisms for sacking people FTL.
vx-chemical
15/08/08 @ 08:49
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I mean how does sacking people mean making better game, if they cancelled 2 games and kept the staff i wouldnt be worried, since that would mean more people working on each game.

N@
15/08/08 @ 09:11
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What the fuck is Smelly on about. Ban that moron.
IronCladChicken
15/08/08 @ 09:48
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With some minor tweaking (death instead of heavy) Brutal Legend could have become 'Tim Schafer's Metalopocalypse'
Then nothing could have stopped his plans for world domination.
hollybabes
15/08/08 @ 09:54
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Ive got friends at radical, and this "announcement" is a pile of crap..

They have gone from almost 200 staff to 25 now, and they got a days notice "that something was gona be announced"..

Activision have basically absorbed and chewed up radical for the IP's it owns..

I feel sorry for everyone who worked there...
kinky_mong
15/08/08 @ 10:54
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I would say at least Prototype is safe, but considering this sort of harsh take-over has rarely been good for games that will inevitably be ruined in a J-Pod style by the main character being replaced by a wise-cracking turtle.

Meanwhile the once evil EA seemed to have turned around completely, but I'll reserve final judgement until I actually get to play Mirror's Edge and Dead Space.
jebus
15/08/08 @ 15:21
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@Watkins381 radical murdered crash bandicoot so they deserved it



You prick.
I hope that you get laid off one day if you ever get a job that requires more skill than flipping burgers.
smelly
15/08/08 @ 17:11
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@N@:

Fuck you too prick.
OllyJ
18/08/08 @ 08:42
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I think I might realign my game choices over the next year.
actionfitz
26/08/08 @ 14:29
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@smelly
14-Aug-08 22:06:04


"@Watkins381: May i be the first to say : Fuck you you fucking asshole fucking twat of a fucking kid. One of these days you'll get laid, but i doubt it'll be someone you dont fucking pay for.
Fucker.

@N@:

Fuck you too prick. "

nice articulate use of vocabulary to illustrate you opinion. you'll go far.
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