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Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players | MMORPG.com
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Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players | MMORPG.com
In a report by Bloomberg, news broke that Mike Frazzini, head of Amazon Game Studios, has stepped down. According to the report, Frazzini stated he was stepping down to focus on his family. The news comes as AGS's flagship title New World continues to hemorrhage players, down to an average peak player count of around 27K players according to SteamDB.
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Example, I'm a licensed professional counselor. You can't teach genuine empathy and the ability to build rapport in a classroom. It doesn't happen, that is why you do close to 700 hours of practicum. At the end of the day, you may obtain the degree and never work in the field because you just genuinely lack those skills.
Management is the same exact thing. Connecting with people to get their best, so your department shines. If this dude was unable to connect with the people making the game who play games and understand what actually makes people stay and play and spend money on games, then that is on him for not wanting to understand. He probably was more irritated he got placed here as he was doing something that was working for him and got thrown into this new video game crap for children (Heard it numerous times from adults who don't play any games or have any real hobbies)
Regardless, not every leader can transition their previous success to a new venture, clearly the case at AGS for sure.
The bad news is ..Bobby Kotick is looking for a new job I hear.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Yeah, the kind of person who leads because they listen to those who know the details about a thing, and is good at understanding what they're being told, then evaluating those needs against the needs of other people who know what they're talking about...that kind of person can succeed as a manager/leader anywhere. They don't need to know much of anything about the actual job the people they're managing are doing, they just need to know how to listen and judge what they're being told. They have a strong understanding not of the actual product, but are good at gathering information from people who do understand, and then processing that in a useful way.
The other kind of successful leader, one whose leadership success is because of knowing the actual job, cannot translate that success to other fields, at least not without also becoming an expert in that field first. Someone who knows automobile manufacturing inside and out can do a great job managing it because they understand what's needed and if there's any problems, they can spot those problems themselves and know what to do about them, so they can quickly assign the right people. But they're used to knowing a lot themselves. Being right. Not needing the advice of others who know more than them about the topic, because they often know best. Put them in charge of something they're not equally familiar with, and they will crash and burn because they have no idea what they're doing, but also aren't good at gathering the information from those who do. Many refuse to acknowledge their lack of understanding, so they don't even try to learn what to do better, and blame all failure on others.
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One of the things that are killing this industry is it. The average age of "gamers" is 30 or more but people and even the ones that work in this industry continue talking about this BS that videogame is something to children... it's something that kill a game even before it be released or placed on paper. I believe that dark themes and mature tematics is what this industry need principally western developers that love realistic graphics. They just need just learn how just create games.
Someone that just want create good games (knowing that will be rewarded for it) and have someone to check if things are doing well seems good enough. Probably they never putted a control in hands.
Yes you are correct. A key to being a good leader is to surround yourself with good people and then to open your ears and listen to them.
The problem with too many so called leaders to day is they are not willing to do that. Many of them are not willing to take constructive criticism because they are more interested in is having "yes people" on their team instead of someone who has the balls to say "That will never work".
Amazon had a game that could have been much better then what they came up with. But all of the pasty and copy of assets and boring questing kill their game. I doubt they can save it as it needs a lot of work! Plus once a game get marked it's hard to erase that mark.
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I had the idea that Frazzini had already been sidelined and kept as a token-but-not-really boss and Hartmann was the one who has been running things for the past couple of years since he was hired.
Maybe not. /shrug.
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I dont see any hope for it even though they seem to keep trying as evidenced by the roadmap.
They kissed up to the same fly-by-night streamers at launch who dont really care about the game. The only streamers left of note are view botters.
Ashes Of Creation may actually end up being the game New World should have been. Thats a story for another time.
You have to acknowledge that mmo players are by far PVE players and only a handful PvP.
Even an All-Star dev 'n leadership team couldn't fix NW.
...it was built on matchsticks and set ablaze by players just doing 'normal game stuff'; like activating a skill. Or posting sausages in chat. :P
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First time I saw that, it was so funny. I was like "wtf was that!?"