Marvel Rivals director and his entire development team laid off

[Kenny West]

Playerbase down 20% and the game only 2 months old and trending downwards rapidly

20% is not the number I was expecting for "buzz died tremendously". Like damn what are we comparing this to? The normal hit game performance is 90% peak playerbase retained months into a game's lifespan?

Grasping at straws here

 

[itsyoung!!]

20% is not the number I was expecting for "buzz died tremendously". Like damn what are we comparing this to? The normal hit game performance is 90% peak playerbase retained months into a game's lifespan?

Grasping at straws here

in which world is 20% not a big number

 

[Hood Critic]

Way too early for layoffs or reacting to a 30 day trend, when they set their concurrent player count record barely 30 days ago.

 

[rabbid]

Wasn't playing it anyway, time to delete. They oughta be ashamed.

 

[Fillerguy]

China stay playing America.

 

[Illuminatos]

Not gonna lie, I downloaded the game and saw that mobile game UI and got instantly turned off. Played a match and wasn’t feeling it at all. I thought gamers were sick of the hero shooter live service style games?

 

[-DMP-]

My brother wants to be a video game programmer: francis:

 

[winb83]

Except they usually work on contracts not directly employed.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Marvel Rivals Has Earned An Estimated $130 Million In Its First Month

Marvel Rivals proves free can be profitable.

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That's not a sign of profitability, just what they earned.

After development costs and server costs, how much profit was earned?

 

[KBtheKey]

Game was certified trash anyway. They got their bread tho so it is what it is

 

[Zero]

 

[Diondon]

Stop supporting this GAAS crap!

 

[Deezay]

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[MeachTheMonster]

This isn’t the creative team or the actual director of the game. All those people are still in china working on the game.

The layoffs were more about global politics/ economics than the success or profitability of the game.

Netease(and lots of other foreign tech companies) are downsizing in america.