MindsEye Developer Build a Rocket Boy Begins Layoff Process Amid Disastrous Launch, Studio Sources Say
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Co-CEO Mark Gerhard had hit the headlines ahead of MindsEye's launch for claiming there was a "concerted effort" by some to "trash the game and the studio," suggesting people were being paid or using spam bots to post negative comments.
The people who made the decisions which led them to this troubled state do not understand or accept that they are the reason hundreds are going to lose their jobs. "Paid actors" seems to be the big push back against criticism but no one knows how much these jobs pay or where to find one. I want to make some money for not buying crap!
I mean, I'm sure these jobs exist, social media manipulation is neither new or difficult. They're probably outsourced to India or somewhere though.
But it's a bit of a pathetic excuse for bad managers to use to cover their failing. I think they should have some sort of evidence before they start squawking about it.
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I mean, I'm sure these jobs exist, social media manipulation is neither new or difficult. They're probably outsourced to India or somewhere though.
But it's a bit of a pathetic excuse for bad managers to use to cover their failing. I think they should have some sort of evidence before they start squawking about it.
Outsourcing is such a pre-AI mentality. Why have foreign loose ends that don't speak the language well and give off amateurish vibes when a few computers and some AI credits will do it faster, better, and cheaper?
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For anyone else trying to parse the title:
Sources from Build a Rocket Boy, developer of MindsEye, say the studio has begun layoffs amid a disastrous launch.
This might hurt every English teacher I ever had, but maybe title format should stop applying to article titles. Unnecessary capitalization hurts legibility.
Not that it would necessarily solve the wording issue, though, as I'm sure the data people for news publishers have some stats showing they get more engagement when the title is front loaded with more keywords, or something to that effect.
Old title format is sensible for the limited space of newspapers. We don't need it to be quite as concise as it used to be with current digital formats.
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You know it is bad when the devs have to stop streamers before they play it.
Wait what happened?
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Old title format is sensible for the limited space of newspapers. We don't need it to be quite as concise as it used to be with current digital formats.
Once limited page space, now limited attention span. I fear a title longer than 20 words would already be tl,dr territory.
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Wait what happened?
They cancelled all sponsored streams a short while after launch.
Cancelled one for CohCarnage as it was starting or had just started, he immediately launches another game and doesn't look back.
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Co-CEO Mark Gerhard had hit the headlines ahead of MindsEye's launch for claiming there was a "concerted effort" by some to "trash the game and the studio," suggesting people were being paid or using spam bots to post negative comments.
The people who made the decisions which led them to this troubled state do not understand or accept that they are the reason hundreds are going to lose their jobs. "Paid actors" seems to be the big push back against criticism but no one knows how much these jobs pay or where to find one. I want to make some money for not buying crap!
It's even more funny, or sad really, given that most of these studios are paying people to promote these games, without any of the legally required disclosures of course.
Those incongruously positive opinions disappearing after a few days is totally normal and definitely not because they were only being paid for a 1 week window around the launch of the game.
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Once limited page space, now limited attention span. I fear a title longer than 20 words would already be tl,dr territory.
Yeah titles should still be short and snappy, but they can cater to more readability while still remaining relatively short.
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Who could've possibly seen this coming?
How the hell do they even have 100 employees to fire? The game is basically a UE5 demo project.
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They cancelled all sponsored streams a short while after launch.
Cancelled one for CohCarnage as it was starting or had just started, he immediately launches another game and doesn't look back.
Wooooow they knew.
