Phoenix Labs Developer for Fae Farm & Dauntless Lays Off Staff, Cancels In-Development Games
Phoenix Labs Developer for Fae Farm & Dauntless Lays Off Staff, Cancels In-Development Games
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Dauntless, nothing of value lost there…..
Enjoyed what I played of Dauntless early on, just kind gradually drifted away as it didn’t have enough new content at the time.
Jesus fuck, I feel so helpless with all these bullshit layoffs.
It is getting easier and easier for 1-5 people to crank out a great game. The software tools are getting better and better and more reliable.
These massive studios are borqued.
Saw an artist on Twitter mention that he and a whole team spent roughly three years working on a project under the studio, and now it’s been cancelled, and they’ve been terminated immediately. It’s probably a result that, for legal reasons, they can’t disclose ANY of the work they did in that time, meaning they now have a 3-year gap in their resume that will be poked at by any recruiters.
Apart from the situation of job loss, there needs to be some sort of legislation in place that protects workers in this situation. How many artistic projects never see release, and their creators can never claim credit for any of the work they put into it?
Well played almost for 1.5 years in dauntless. move on after i bought MHW its a good game but may be out of content for a online multiplayer game.
I have a very fond memory of Dauntless. Hop in a hunt of one of the endgame monsters with 3 randoms, two are kids on mics probably 10-13 years old. We’re fighting this thing and the one other guy goes down mid way through the fight, these kids are like ‘Aw man we’re never gonna get to kill this guy’. They notice that I’m almost holding my own. Boom one of the kids gets downed, and we’re like 75% of the way there. Boom, last kid goes down. It’s all up to me. They’re cheering me on and I’m like 1 hit away from getting killed. Final blow and the monster goes down and we all go nuts! I felt like a hero!
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