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Amazon Games Lays Off 100 Employees, But Most Studios Will Grow | MMORPG.com

A series of layoffs at Amazon means about 100 Amazon Games employees are affected. But most of its studio teams are actually expanding.

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OldKingLog

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Kyleran

OldKingLog said:

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Poor leadership mostly I'm thinking.

ashiru_1978

Kyleran said:

OldKingLog said:

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Poor leadership mostly I'm thinking.

Leadership of people who know nothing about games, may have played Super Mario on NES once in the 80s and that was it. Probably some of the decision makers are also some wokes straight out of college with a pink or blue hair, nose ring, fat and PhD in Gender Studies seeing as how New World doesn't have genders and you can have a female character with mustache or beard or pink hair. Pretty messed up game, New World.

Kyleran

Sometimes I hate when people agree with me.

Iselin

I love it when fascist bigots can't hold it in any longer and explode randomly on a thread about layoffs.

KnightFalz

ashiru_1978 said:

Kyleran said:

OldKingLog said:

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Poor leadership mostly I'm thinking.

Leadership of people who know nothing about games, may have played Super Mario on NES once in the 80s and that was it. Probably some of the decision makers are also some wokes straight out of college with a pink or blue hair, nose ring, fat and PhD in Gender Studies seeing as how New World doesn't have genders and you can have a female character with mustache or beard or pink hair.

Pretty messed up game, New World.

New World has genders.

As for women having facial hair, that can happen due to a condition called hirsuitism which causes hair growth in women to instead be in a pattern typical to men. As for hair colour, hair dye has existed for the entirety of recorded history. The colours available don't really fit the time period suggested but it's not a simulation game so that's not a huge issue, in my view anyway.

The game was pretty messed up for awhile, but has improved.

KaliGold

"Several hundred people were also laid off at Amazon-owned Twitch recently."

Love THIS part!

Andemnon

The layoffs are probably a result of the utter failure of Rings of Power than New World if anything, sure there is a push back against the woke and a lot of those types are getting laid off, but that is not something that is only happening to Amazon, its far more widespread with Disney perhaps being a more notable example, if anything i actually commend Amazon for allowing players to create whatever type of character they want in New World, its not like it matters because its an option not a requirement.

Sovrath

ashiru_1978 said:

Kyleran said:

OldKingLog said:

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Poor leadership mostly I'm thinking.

Leadership of people who know nothing about games, may have played Super Mario on NES once in the 80s and that was it. Probably some of the decision makers are also some wokes straight out of college with a pink or blue hair, nose ring, fat and PhD in Gender Studies seeing as how New World doesn't have genders and you can have a female character with mustache or beard or pink hair. Pretty messed up game, New World.

The really sad thing is that you actually believe every word you wrote. 

olepi

I was working for Calma in 1982 when GE bought them. Calma was the premier maker of chip layout design CAD machines.

GE sent down one of their top executives to be the new President of Calma. He came from GE's Small Steam Turbine division. They said that Calma was just a business and it didn't matter if the President had no idea what chip design or CAD was.

I suspect this is what happened to Amazon. Gaming is just a business, so it doesn't matter if the top brass are ignorant about gaming. That makes it easy to sell them on a bad idea for a game.

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XNL00

KnightFalz said:

ashiru_1978 said:

Kyleran said:

OldKingLog said:

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Poor leadership mostly I'm thinking.

Leadership of people who know nothing about games, may have played Super Mario on NES once in the 80s and that was it. Probably some of the decision makers are also some wokes straight out of college with a pink or blue hair, nose ring, fat and PhD in Gender Studies seeing as how New World doesn't have genders and you can have a female character with mustache or beard or pink hair.



Pretty messed up game, New World.

New World has genders.



As for women having facial hair, that can happen due to a condition called hirsuitism which causes hair growth in women to instead be in a pattern typical to men. As for hair colour, hair dye has existed for the entirety of recorded history. The colours available don't really fit the time period suggested but it's not a simulation game so that's not a huge issue, in my view anyway.



The game was pretty messed up for awhile, but has improved.

No matter how much they improve, people will not come back. NW messed the opportunity to be the best MMORPG as people were very hungry for some MMORPG, but they messed things up instead of just create a good game. If the game doesn't survive well for the first 3 or 6 months, that means it will eventually die. The game is just alive because the owner is AGS. NW lost almost all of its players in the first 6 months and people backlash pretty hard. NW doesn't have much to do to impress people to come back. Especially when people are avoiding the AGS name.

Kyleran

XNL00 said:

KnightFalz said:

ashiru_1978 said:

Kyleran said:

OldKingLog said:

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Poor leadership mostly I'm thinking.

Leadership of people who know nothing about games, may have played Super Mario on NES once in the 80s and that was it. Probably some of the decision makers are also some wokes straight out of college with a pink or blue hair, nose ring, fat and PhD in Gender Studies seeing as how New World doesn't have genders and you can have a female character with mustache or beard or pink hair.



Pretty messed up game, New World.

New World has genders.



As for women having facial hair, that can happen due to a condition called hirsuitism which causes hair growth in women to instead be in a pattern typical to men. As for hair colour, hair dye has existed for the entirety of recorded history. The colours available don't really fit the time period suggested but it's not a simulation game so that's not a huge issue, in my view anyway.



The game was pretty messed up for awhile, but has improved.

 Especially when people are avoiding the AGS name.

They are? Two of the most anticipated games this year are being published by AGS so have to question this assertion.

ashiru_1978

KnightFalz said:

ashiru_1978 said:

Kyleran said:

OldKingLog said:

It baffles the crap out of me how Amazon could have so badly botched their foray into the gaming business.

Poor leadership mostly I'm thinking.

Leadership of people who know nothing about games, may have played Super Mario on NES once in the 80s and that was it. Probably some of the decision makers are also some wokes straight out of college with a pink or blue hair, nose ring, fat and PhD in Gender Studies seeing as how New World doesn't have genders and you can have a female character with mustache or beard or pink hair.



Pretty messed up game, New World.

New World has genders.



As for women having facial hair, that can happen due to a condition called hirsuitism which causes hair growth in women to instead be in a pattern typical to men. As for hair colour, hair dye has existed for the entirety of recorded history. The colours available don't really fit the time period suggested but it's not a simulation game so that's not a huge issue, in my view anyway.



The game was pretty messed up for awhile, but has improved.

Yes, women can have facial hair when they have hormonal disbalance, it's messed up and it's not normal, just like it's not normal and nobody want to have it.
As if any woman will want to have a mustache to deal with and will willingly choose it in a video game. Just woke propaganda.

Women who have facial hair go to great lengths to remove it - laser removal, waxing, whatever.

Iselin said:

I love it when fascist bigots can't hold it in any longer and explode randomly on a thread about layoffs.

Cope. xD Also educate yourself what fascism stands for before using random words you heard somewhere before, because you're making yourself look bad trying to climb on that high horse, it's too high for you.

From Wikipedia and Google - the most reliable sources of information:

Fascism - a movement of people fascinated with giant robots that can be piloted and fought

Communism - addiction to sniffing wooden briquettes

Capitalism - sexual attraction to cloud shapes

HighMarshal

They are? Two of the most anticipated games this year are being published by AGS so have to question this assertion.

If you are referring to Blue Protocol as one of them, then yes the game itself is highly anticipated, but we are on edge over AGS' announcement that they intend to "Westernize' (aka censor) it.