The following is a copy of the internal message from our CEO.

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.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I’ve always enjoyed watching what those laid-off employees end up moving onto.

    almost all of the people currently being laid off in tech end up leaving the industry or being unemployed. there are no jobs, and there are massive waves of layoffs everywhere.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Have you got a source on that?

      Some industries in tech are hit extremely hard (i.e. recruitment), but as someone that has spent the last year helping those laid off from Amazon to find roles internally and externally, that’s definitely not true in software engineering.

      • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        are you trying to suggest that of the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people laid off in the last year in tech, they all found new jobs super easy?

        i’m seeing people be unemployed for 6> months, endlessly interviewing for hundreds of jobs that honestly don’t even exist, just listed.

        • KitEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Anecdotally, I’m in IT and had a brutal time finding a new job. Took nearly 250 applications over 6 months to find something, hated it (65-70 hour weeks without breaks), and applied to another hundred before finding something worthwhile. I’m no newbie - I’ve got over a decade of sysad experience under my belt.