The highly recognised published, Activision, are cutting 150 + employees shortly after EA announced that they were cutting 5% of employees.

The select unfortunate employees or Activision found out last week that they would be leaving their positions. The news comes shortly after EA announced that they would be cutting 5%, but, unlike EA, Activision are not planning to rehire or even transfer the workers to a new place. Here is a quote directly from the EA spokesman:

"We are doing a strategic, targeted reduction to better align our headcount against strategic targets," an Activision spokesman said. Apparently the affected employees were notified last week and the layoffs are still "in process."

Could this affect the games already out or those to come out?

interesting, maybe this is why the cod2 editor is taking a while, the staff are obviously under alot of pressure adn now its even worse with having people 'fired' every which way.

if i was in charge i'd fire the lot of the idiots!

huh.... Why would you want to fire the company that bring out so many games?

Cause then he would Hire all of use Mappers/Scripters/Modellers from MODSONLINE,, and we would create an awesome game....




edited on Feb. 14, 2006 12:01 pm by ßŔ3NT

ßŔ3NT writes...

lol well said!!!

im surprised mo has'nt started its own game by now

supersword writes...

guess why?
150 less employees to pay .... profit goes up.. by saving salaries and other side by productivity coz the left over is working harder coz affraid to get laid off as well hahahahahahahahahaah... anyne seen the editor for
COD2????

supersword writes...

They aren't responsible for the games, they only help publish them.
If it wasnt for publishers the companies would be free to make better higher quality cheaper games.

And people like myself would be able to work there :)

Yes, I know they are a publisher, but none the less, they publish alot of good games.

whoa. a twist happened in my noodle. so activision dont actually make the games? its like some huge clan or group of people and they ask activision to publish the game for them? like me writing my story and getting it published. (not motivated enough to pay all that money...or to care....) or am i getting this all wrong? on the halo 2 behind the scenes they seemed to be making the game. so is Bungie a creator and a publisher?

yea we should split into teams and have a huge contest to see which team on the site can make the best game. lol.

and here i was dissing on valve being stupid with all the screwy updates. now activision is dumping people needed to release cool stuff. they should fire all of there customer support and get people who are legal citizens of whatever country there in right now that know the difference between the questions "can i get the config for the hybrid controller set up for finest hour" and "are there cheats for finest hour" i asked for the controller and they responded with. "we dont give out cheats" lmfao!! sry to get off topic a bit.

edited on Feb. 18, 2006 01:59 am by MasterChief