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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

For those unfamiliar with them, they developed Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Life Is Strange: True Colors and The Expanse: A Telltale Series which released last year.

 

[StereoVsn]

Damn, it just doesn't stop.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Can't say they've made anything I care about in particular. Hope those let go find a new job quickly and easily.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Damn, it just doesn't stop.

It really doesn't...

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Alebrije]

Deck Seven formerly known as Deck Nine.

 

[StueyDuck]

wait, the power of magic flags didn't save them...

what's the point then.

again as said in the Sony thread, this is going to keep happening, don't be shocked, there will be more to come.

 

[Skifi28]

Has to be the most insulting PR crap I've read when it comes to mass firings.

 

[Peroroncino]

 

[Mr Moose]

In this case it really will be firing the pink hair employees, right?

 

[Denton]

Before the Storm and True Colors were both fun games, shame.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

"The year of closures and survival"

 

[adamsapple]

Damn.

When it rains, it fucking pours.

 

[dottme]

I enjoy their life is strange. But I didn't try anything else.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[JordiENP]

If AI can do your job, you gonna get fired. Even Adobe is promoting AI

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Damn, it just doesn't stop.

When it comes to layoffs, the best time for any company to do them is when everyone else is so you blend in and can blame it on an industry wave.

During the global crisis in 2008, my bro who was head of finance overseas laughed when he saw all the companies laying off people. Even in his own industry. Companies were doing fine. But if a company does a big lay off and is the only one doing it, all eyeballs are on it. When you announce a lay off to cut costs with everyone else, you blend in and people forget about it. So when some companies truly needed to, that makes sense. But then everyone joined in. My company I worked at did some layoffs too, cut travel that year and our annual off site pow wow meeting got gimped to be at a local hotel. Our sales and profit were solid. But we joined in too.

Layoffs are one part cost cutting (survival), one part simply improving the bottom line (make a great thing greater), and one part PR strategy when to it so you get as few people writing about it.

The last thing any company doing layoffs wants is being the guy who is the only one doing it all month.

 

[Kacho]

For those unfamiliar with them, they developed Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Life Is Strange: True Colors

That certainly explains why I haven't heard of them.

In this case it really will be firing the pink hair employees, right?

 

[PSlayer]

Do we know how much is that in raw numbers?

 

[rofif]

Should've closed the door completely. They are woke to the bone

 

[BobLeeSwagger]

Should've closed the door completely. They are woke to the bone

50-200 total employees from their LinkedIn.

So anywhere from 10 to 40.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Do we know how much is that in raw numbers?

50-200 total employees from their LinkedIn.

So anywhere from 10 to 40.

Not the first time they laid off people. They also did 30 jobs in May 2023.

https://archive.ph/20231205211155/https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/life-is-strange-dev-deck-nine-games-hit-with-staff-layoffs

As for currently employees before lay off, IGN has this.

Life Is Strange: True Colors Studio Deck Nine Lays Off 20% of Staff - IGN

Deck Nine, the studio behind Life Is Strange entries Before the Storm and True Colors, as well as The Expanse: A Telltale Series, laid off 20% of its staff today.

www.ign.com

Deck Nine didn't specify how many people that 20% equates to, but IGN understands that the studio employed roughly between 100 and 130 staffers prior to today's layoffs.


Online data scraping kinds of sites arent always accurate, but this site says 127.

https://www.zoominfo.com/c/deck-nine-games/466699617

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Thanks. Adding that tweet to the OP!

Should've closed the door completely. They are woke to the bone

 

[clarky]

In this case it really will be firing the pink hair employees, right?

Diversity firing?

Got to work both ways right? Right?

 

[balls of snow]

Before the Storm is an all timer. Would rather have them around than another boring 2d metroidvania souls game any day of the week, any month of the year.

 

[Larxia]

Exactly what I was going to post lol

 

[crackajack]

Are there no studios that hired and maintain exactly the number of people they need for their next project? Who is still left recently without such a statement?

What nonsense is this, firing people left and right because others do it too.

Either I need the manpower or I don't. If they don't need them, why did they overhire in the first place? And if they actually do, firing anyone will just delay the release of your next game and or burn out more people on the way if the goalposts won't be moved.

Much more reasonably would be to cut back at feature creep. Cut some fat from the game, no one actually needs anyway.