Update, February 19: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:NetEase Games has sent GamesRa💧dar+ a statement confirming that꧙ a number of its US-based Marvel Rivals staff, specifically, a design team in Seattle, have been impacted with layoffs. It adds that its "core development team," le𓆏d by lead producer Weicong Wu and creative director Guangyun Chen in China, is still "fully committed to delivering an exceptional experience."
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Marvel Rivals game director Thaddeus Sasser shares on LinkedIn that NetEase laid off his entire, US-based team 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:despite the h🃏ero shooter's sky-high popularity.
"This is such a weird industry..." Sasser writes in . "My stellar, talented team just helped deliver an incredibly successful new franchise in Marvel Rivals for NetEase Games [...] and were just laid off!"
"Oh well!" Sasser continues. "Times are tough all over – let's find these incredible people new jobs, because we all need to eat, right?"
In , Chinese publisher NetEase started making dramatic cuts to Visions of Mana developer Ouka Studios. Then, at the end of the same year, NetEase members of its central staff after it was disappointed by mobile game Operation Apocalypse's local launch; that shooter has since been shut down.
This time, we don't yet know the e♛xtent of NetEas✃e's latest round of layoffs, and the company has not yet responded to GamesRadar+'s request for comment.
As of now, it appears that Marvel Rivals' entire US team has been wiped out. Former level designer Ga🔜rry McGee says as much , lamenting the fact that "my team recently helped develop and launch Marvel Rivals, which turned out to be a bigger hit than any of us expected! Unfortunately, my team wꦯas also laid off."
"Strange times all across 🥂the industry indeed," McGee continues.
Former level designer Jack Burrows shares a similar sentiment , sharing that it "was an enormous pleasure to work with my American coworkers who join me i🍷n this sad culling.🔥 Just couldn't dodge that big boot I guess, no matter how big the success of the gig."
As of writing, Marvel Rivals has over 200,000 concurrent players, and the game issued a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:mid-season update earlier today.
Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written f🤪reelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
