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Zenimax just cut 300 customer service jobs for ESO in EU 4 months early
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We do have plenty of posters like that justinthorne76, but don't let that get you down. I had a look at WS forums, first time, and could not see signs that the mods were not allowing criticism of the game. What I did notice that many of the things they ranted about on here like bots are in WS, I wonder if it is the same posters ranting on again about something that occurs in every MMO?
One thread that really amused me was the one saying there were no sales figures for WS but it is doing well. Here we had a thread saying there were no sale figures and that meant the game was a big fail.
Uhm, no.
Most of SWTORs 220 launch servers were EMPTY at launch, the only servers that had queues were those from STAGED PRELAUNCH, and tha was 40 or so servers that were opened for preorders during 3-5 day early access.
They havent done any "mega server" or anything, they had 2 rounds of server merges (and they were very overdue with that) because they didnt even think about server transfers or merges, thats how confident they were. It came back to bite them in their behinds.
Yes i was there in guild server placement programe.
139 mil $ figure is completely bogus, internet is full of various "analysts" and cannot be used to prove anything with much more value that anyone writes on this forum because it has SAME weight.
heres a fun fact:
http://www.torstatus.net/shards/eu/trends
Yes, EAware did let go all the contracters BRFORE launch and had 2 rounds of layoffsof theri CORE staff. ESOs layoffsare NOT core staff (managers, developers that were supposed to continue working on the game). ESOs layoffs are mostly due to postponing console launch and underperforming on PC.
http://www.swtor.com/info/news/%5Bnews-category%5D/20120913
Here they tested mega server tech
http://www.swtor.com/blog/server-consolidation
Here they implemented it.
Being a hoe is always a hard road.
In 2012 Blizzard lost a few million players...ESO let go half the number of employees that Blizzard let go, does that mean they lost about 1m players?
It meant a decline in subscription for Blizzard.
I doubt they had a million players to begin with.
This is what a industry journalist had to say about the closures:
"by the reports that surfaced a couple of weeks ago about as many as 300 customer service staff being let go from ZeniMax Online's Irish office, supposedly leaving only 100. At time of writing, this doesn't appear to have been confirmed. However, if these figures are accurate or even in the ballpark,"
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Richard Aihoshi usually only writes about F2P games, he is an ardent supporter of that payment method as I am sure he would say himself. But he took the time in his recent column to have a bash at TESO and predict that is will go F2P. Nothing unusual there, he does not like P2P and briefs constantly against it.
What I noted was that even he could not confirm the source or if the figures were accurate. That did not stop to go on an use this as evidence that TESO was going F2P soon of course.
So if an industry figure who desperately wants every P2P MMO to go F2P can't find validate that report of job loses why should I or anyone else take them as being the truth?
Having read Richard's article - it is published on this site after all - I don't think much of the "industry journalist's" spin.
It is always difficult to confirm exact numbers in these situations. That the lay-offs have happened however is difficult to doubt given the local reporting.
Pre-launch Richard actually wrote about the renaissance of the subscription model as a result of upcoming launches of TESO and WS. I commented that the same could have been said two years earlier prior to SWTOR and TSW and said, as I continued to say prior to TESO's launch, that I thought they had the wrong approach.
Subscriptions models are not dead however. BF3 had 2.5 million optional subscribers - we know this because EA reported BF3's subscription revenue. It had an optional subscription model - just like BF4 does. Which meant that EA were obligated to deliver new content and that when BF4 had a torrid launch EA couldn't pull staff to fix bugs. As I said in another thread what a novel idea. The customer pays for new content; the customer gets new content.
In stark contrast TESO has become the latest "pay us a sub and trust us" game to announce that staff have been moved onto bug fixing and so new content will be "less frequent". They are, after all, under no obligation to deliver new content. Is it any wonder that people talked about "paid betas" and are sceptical about devs claims of post-launch content when game after game fails to deliver?
ZoS have cut back on new development; they have cut back on CS. Will they make a switch when they launch the console version ... we will eventually find out.
I had not realised he had said anything remotely in favour of P2P to be honest. I saw his column from the start and he was brought in to write about F2P, which clearly he thought was the best thing to happen to MMOs since the trinity. Not read it in ages which is why I had no idea he has mentioned something about P2P that was not a bash of that payment model.
We know that companies protect their dealings to maintain a business edge. That's why I always say take anything said about a company with a pinch of salt. What gets me about this thread is that industry insiders do not know what's has happened, but posters on here know its a big problem for TESO.
I would raise the question as to whether we can compare a MMO to a shooter, but new content is what it is all about for sure. For me though once again, what bugs? If you raced to V10 in a month you saw issues, if you did not you saw hardly any bugs at all.
Ye, they postponed console launch (and without a date) because everythings super duper! Right.
Sorry, but the OP is 100% correct. Being a former employee of ZOS ESO is the cause of the madness over in Galway and Hunt Valley.
Oh, and those positions are on hold right now. Not even Kelly is hiring for ZOS right now.
I also had 2 good friends of mine hired and let go from ZOS. They showed up to work early in the morning and their badges were locked out. They were never told why they were let go. They were to work for a total of 6 months or longer only to be let go within 3 months. Hell, in training they were told they could move up in the company. Heh, I was there, I sat through the BS. After all the sour reviews came back from all the magazines I saw the writing on the wall and left.
"Everything is mine and your woman too"
I know this is going to rage some people but its worth saying.
they pushed on with ESO and they discarded VR.....interesting
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
Please do not respond to me
Your grammar is making me want to rage, but that's about it.
This game's forum reads so similarly to SWTOR's first few months......
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Temp contracts get closed for any number of reasons and they can also get a contract with the same company, different department for the next week. It's just the companies like to keep temps on a leash so to speak, saves taking them on and giving all those benefits.
Contract workers on the other hand tend to have a contract that pays a temps weekly wage in one day even though some of them are thick as pig.shit ..