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Post by Pistolwhip on Jan 8, 2020 3:04:58 GMT
Today brought major layoffs to FFG, makers of the Edge of the Empire game and source material for the Edge of the Empire campaign. Officially only FFG Interactive has been shuttered but rumors are RPGs (Star Wars, Genesys, Warhammer and L5R) and customer service are being gutted next so the company can concentrate on board and miniatures games. Customer service will likely get outsourced, because they got to have something, right? and RPGs may become a freelance model but it's all speculation at this point. www.gamasutra.com/view/news/356367/Fantasy_Flight_Interactive_to_close_after_companywide_layoffs.php |
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Post by Tim B on Jan 8, 2020 21:39:00 GMT
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Post by Pistolwhip on Jan 9, 2020 2:17:32 GMT
Fair points all. I saw the redit artical first but that seems less reputable to me. At least Gamasutra is a news source of sorts. as for 10-14 not being massive, I think we have to look at it as a percentage of the company, which granted isn't listed anywhere that I can find but can't imagine being larger than 100 people, likely less. 15% or greater layoffs is massive in my opinion. Granted, a lot of this is speculation but its worth keeping an eye on.
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Post by Tim B on Jan 13, 2020 23:57:33 GMT
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Post by jasony on Jan 14, 2020 4:09:34 GMT
How will they continue to continue the RPG lines without employees? Will they outsource everything?
ETA, on another message board I understand that EA owns all the digital rights to Star Wars, so that includes PDFs of the books. Not sure how true that is or if EA is going to do anything if they find out such things exist, but it's something to keep in mind.
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Post by Tim B on Jan 17, 2020 1:09:05 GMT
How will they continue to continue the RPG lines without employees? Will they outsource everything? ETA, on another message board I understand that EA owns all the digital rights to Star Wars, so that includes PDFs of the books. Not sure how true that is or if EA is going to do anything if they find out such things exist, but it's something to keep in mind. Freelancers. Freelancers are used by many different RPG production houses, because the work is as needed vs a more steady constant production. Technically all my professional writing has been freelance, a large number of the 5E D&D was freelance, and even some of the current FFG Star Wars line was done by Freelancers. That's not exactly true. What happened is the EA license, made back when Lucasfilm was still owned by Lucas (and many years prior) was the exclusive digital games license. Unfortunately due to poor wording, that includes PDFs of the FFG Star Wars RPG game, so there are no legal PDFs for the FFG Star Wars. Apparently that contract is to be renegotiated soon on both sides (RPG and digital games), so they can hopefully correct that. |
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Post by Pistolwhip on Feb 19, 2020 3:04:28 GMT
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Post by Tim B on Feb 19, 2020 18:11:49 GMT
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Post by Tim B on Mar 11, 2020 11:56:45 GMT
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Post by Pistolwhip on Mar 13, 2020 14:00:16 GMT
great, some good news.
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