Slant Six Layoffs

[Jun 12, 2012, 8:47 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City developer Slant Six has offered 26 employees the choice between temporary layoffs and severance packages as a way of making ends meet, reports GameSpot, saying a majority chose the layoff option.

"Regretfully, we can confirm that there have been some temporary layoffs at our studio," the company's official statement reads. "We must stress that these are temporary layoffs, which means we are working very hard on new business prospects so we can reinstate every single person affected. As an independent and close-knit studio it is a very difficult but necessary business measure due to the current project cycle demands."

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Jun 13, 2012, 08:50

JaguarUSF

Jerykk wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 00:54: Err, Raccoon City has been out on PC for weeks. From what I've read, it's a pretty half-assed port of a game that was already half-assed to begin with. Here's my review

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Jun 13, 2012, 05:38

Dev

Many studios work project to project, its nothing unusual if it IS temporary. In fact its rare for a studio to have secure income sources that don't depend on the next game. Blizzard is one with monthly WoW subs. Valve is one with 30% of all transactions through steam. You might think a company like Infinity Ward is one, but if they ever bomb with a game, they are likely finished. Bobby would just hand the next sequel over to any one of the other studios who would jump at the chance.

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Jun 13, 2012, 01:35

Prez

Err, Raccoon City has been out on PC for weeks. From what I've read, it's a pretty half-assed port of a game that was already half-assed to begin with.

D'oh! I don't know what I was looking at. Never mind me - I think I'm over-tired from the endless shifts at work.




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Jun 13, 2012, 00:54

Jerykk

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 00:28: That's kind of crazy considering Raccoon City actually sold really well as I understand it. It's not that crazy. Developers don't see a dime until the publisher has recouped development and marketing costs. In fact, most developers don't see a dime even after that. Royalties are a rare thing unless you work at a highly-established studio that has leverage. In all likelihood, Slant Six doesn't have any other big projects lined up right now, hence the layoffs. That, or the project(s) are too early to need full staffing. By "Racoon City" do you guys mean this game? http://store.steampowered.com/app/209100/ It hasn't released for PC yet, but it wouldn't be the first time the PC version lagged behind the console version by many months. I acually thought that looked pretty cool. I generally gobble up anything Resident Evil-related that makes it to PC since I've been a fan of the series since the first came out on PS1. Err, Raccoon City has been out on PC for weeks. From what I've read, it's a pretty half-assed port of a game that was already half-assed to begin with.

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Jun 13, 2012, 00:28

Parallax Abstraction

That's kind of crazy considering Raccoon City actually sold really well as I understand it.




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Re: Slant Six Layoffs

Jun 12, 2012, 22:55

Prez

By "Racoon City" do you guys mean this game? http://store.steampowered.com/app/209100/

It hasn't released for PC yet, but it wouldn't be the first time the PC version lagged behind the console version by many months. I acually thought that looked pretty cool. I generally gobble up anything Resident Evil-related that makes it to PC since I've been a fan of the series since the first came out on PS1.




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Jun 12, 2012, 22:46

Fantaz

RaZ0r! wrote on Jun 12, 2012, 21:23:
Sorry guys. I hope you all form your own development studio and make the next Minecraft or something. Good Luck!

Or why not "the next" Aliens or Prometheus game instead?




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Re: Slant Six Layoffs

Jun 12, 2012, 21:23

RaZ0r!

Sorry guys. I hope you all form your own development studio and make the next Minecraft or something. Good Luck!

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Jun 12, 2012, 21:18

deqer

love how companies hire and chew up employees and let them go for company's own lack of vision.

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Jun 12, 2012, 21:10

Wildone

U probably make AWESOME doughnuts where u work

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Jun 12, 2012, 20:58

Rattlehead

Yea Racoon City was pretty awful and I'm a huge RE fanboy and I gotta say it sucked.

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Jun 12, 2012, 20:57

CommunistHamster

Some of the devs probably have their own ideas which might actually sell. Unfortunately they have been buried under sequels that nobody wanted.

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Jun 12, 2012, 20:50

RollinThundr

Maybe if SlantSix would stop making garbage they wouldn't have to lay people off. Socom:Confrontation sucked, Raccoon City sucked even worse.

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