They’re all the time on the again foot.
To say that many are nonetheless reeling from the “bloodbath” that Xbox and Microsoft set forth not too way back is an understatement. Many individuals misplaced their jobs within the identify of “guaranteeing the corporate’s future,” and a number of video games and studios had been shut down, “trimmed down,” or one thing in between. Even the businesses which have been doing properly general, like Uncommon, had some misplaced employees, and that left many questioning about what would occur to Sea Of Thieves. The sport has been chugging alongside with out a problem for a while, however with Uncommon dropping folks, can they stick with it and maintain the sport’s participant base whereas additionally including new content material?
All of the solutions to this had been accomplished by way of a particular reside stream you can see beneath. The Uncommon group didn’t mince phrases and stated that whereas Sea Of Thieves will proceed, and hopefully proceed for the subsequent 5 years, they’d be fighting sure components because of the lack of individuals. Listed below are the phrases of manufacturing director Drew Stevens about your entire scenario and the way it pertains to how the group has all the time felt about preserving the sport alive:
“We’ve felt like we’re all the time on the again foot. With a variety of areas, we felt we’re slightly bit gradual to react. We don’t have the mandatory useful resource or group construction to permit us to leap straight again and to begin to handle a few of these issues that we’re seeing, whether or not it’s round high quality management and delivery options at a spot that we’re simply not fairly pleased with, to recreation efficiency, like slowly being in a spot the place we’re including new options to the sport however efficiency over time is degrading, by means of to recreation safety.”
The sport’s inventive director spoke on the group doing its greatest going ahead to proceed driving content material to what it must be, whereas additionally guaranteeing that followers get what they need when it comes to fixes. To that finish, the upcoming content material drops will preserve the three-month mannequin that has been round for a bit. The hope is that these longer content material drops will assist maintain the sport till the subsequent content material drop is prepared.
Mockingly, they didn’t point out the layoffs in any respect within the overarching sense, possible due to a directive from Microsoft. Even nonetheless, it’s a must to marvel in the event that they’ll be capable of pull off every thing they wish to do, together with whether or not they’ll be capable of make the Customized Servers they wish to launch quickly work. Solely time will inform.
