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submitted 8 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

TLDR: Riot is downscaling. The severance package is great but it's another round of layoffs in the industry.

This will also majorly affect Legends of Runeterra. They're putting the game on life support it seems, and will focus on the PvE mode.

They're also shutting down Riot Forge, their collaboration with other studios to make smaller games with their IP.

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 128 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Riot is a trash company.

I feel for the employees who lost their jobs.

Its always grating when CEOs say they "take responsibility" but they're not taking a demotion and paycut. No, somehow, the idiots who made the shitty decisions get to keep making them. Apparently that's "responsibility."

[-] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I don't think there will ever be any CEO that takes a pay cut over doing layoffs.

[-] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago

Satoru Iwata and the Wii U is the single instance I can think of.

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