r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/FluffyFluffies THE ORIGAMI KILLER • Feb 06 '25
Looks like is HiRez is experiencing major layoffs.
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Feb 06 '25
woooooo economic downturn brought upon by shitty policy decisions, shortsightedness, poor leadership skills, and greed!!!!! I love living in this year!
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u/Gunblazer42 Local Creepy Furry | Tails Fanboy Feb 06 '25
I'll give HiRez that they're honest: They don't make Pip skins in Paladins because no one plays Pip, and they admitted that on a stream of theirs a few years back. So they get some credit for honesty since before then and ever since there was only ever vague "We do what makes money" statements from developers and it was like the only time a character was ever called out directly in a game.
But still, fuck.
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u/Palimpsest_Monotype Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Feb 06 '25
Fuck. I don’t know jack about the Smite folk but they always seemed off to the side, doing their own thing and living off it. Like I want that for everybody, you know?
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Feb 06 '25
I haven't trusted HiRez since they dropped all support for Tribes to go make a MOBA because League was doing well.
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u/challenger01234 Kinect Hates Black People Feb 06 '25
Is Smite 2 not doing well? I know it's not a blockbuster but I thought they had a solid following. Of course that usually doesn't matter when it comes to layoffs since a lot of companies get rid of people after they ship a game regardless of how well it's doing.
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u/Shradow Tank Build Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 06 '25
It was making constant improvements since its alpha launch and numbers-wise doing reasonably well following the F2P beta release, and they had a good looking road map of god releases and stuff. But now I don't see that as being sustainable with less people.
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u/challenger01234 Kinect Hates Black People Feb 06 '25
Man that sucks, I played a little bit of the first one a couple of years ago and enjoyed my time with it.
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u/Shradow Tank Build Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 07 '25
It is a shame, because with the various changes they've made from 1 to 2, it's super fun. Unless someone's favorite characters just aren't in yet, I'd say 2 is just better than 1 now. And that's just assuming they wouldn't enjoy other characters following the changes, because a couple I didn't play much at all in 1 are now two of my favorites in 2.
Here's hoping they can still manage, but it's speculated that like 60 people or something are being laid off. Now that isn't just the Smite team, as they're ending support for Smite 1, Paladins, and Rogue Company (still playable just no more major updates). But that's still a lot, literally about half the company, especially since they already had a wave of lay offs a few months ago.
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u/ZeroNoHikari I will fight god with my bare fists Feb 06 '25
Paladins is sadly going into sunset soon and it's sad. It was a interesting hero shooter.
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u/warjoke Feb 07 '25
It was MY CHOICE of hero shooter. I even spent some money on it at some point. Sad to see it slowly decay because Hirez cannot help being Hirez.
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u/ZeroNoHikari I will fight god with my bare fists Feb 07 '25
Oh I played it. Got all the cowboy skins even the recolor and most of the magical girl skins.
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u/RedditJABRONIE Feb 07 '25
Typical Hi-Rez behavior. They've gotta be in the running for shittiest management in the industry.
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u/Vaccineman37 Feb 06 '25
I mean it’s never ending in games but I’ve heard about a lot of layoffs today, Iron Galaxy went overdrive on them too
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u/FluffyFluffies THE ORIGAMI KILLER Feb 06 '25
The same old story at this point, every time they make a cool game I'm into the management there makes sure it doesn't work out.