Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
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Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
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#2I haven't even heard of the divisions people were laid off from. Does anyone have any background information about what these groups were attempting to accomplish?
Re: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
#3I think they've found their sweet spot as a publisher rather than a development house.
It's hard to make successful games, and just throwing large sums of money and people at a problem doesn't guarantee success.
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#4I don't know if I have ever read a more generic, boilerplate quasi-condolence paragraph than this one:
This isn’t a decision the leadership team came to quickly; it was the result
of extensive considerations and road mapping for our future. We are proud of
the work the teams have been doing, pushing into new areas with weekly content
on Crown Channel, and finding more ways to help publishers reach new audiences
with Game Growth. But after further evaluation of our businesses, it became
clear that we need focus our resources and efforts to deliver great games to
players now and in the future.”Re: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
#5> “We’ve listened to our customers and we know delivering free games every month is what they want most"
There is a lot to unpack in this statement. I for one don't really want monthly free shit clicker games.
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#6Is this really news? That's about one one hundredth of a percent.
Re: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
#7I don't know if I have ever read a more generic, boilerplate quasi-condolence paragraph than this one: This isn’t a decision the leadership team came to quickly; it was the result of extensive considerations and road mapping for our future. We are proud of the work the teams have been doing, pushing into new areas with weekly content on Crown Channel, and finding more ways to help publishers reach new audiences with…
Very chat gtp
Re: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
#8I haven't even heard of the divisions people were laid off from. Does anyone have any background information about what these groups were attempting to accomplish?
Not sure, but I remember clearly this Simon Wardley (of Wardley mapping) blogpost from 2016, which thinks Amazon's Lumberyard will kill Unity and Unreal (amongst others) by doing their normal Amazon play for game development.
https://blog.gardeviance.org/2016/02/what-to-do-about-amazon...
That didn't happen - these predictions and strategies don't always work.
Re: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
#9I haven't even heard of the divisions people were laid off from. Does anyone have any background information about what these groups were attempting to accomplish?
Prime Gaming was primarily providing in-game content for Prime members in games like GTA 5, as well as monthly free games. There were efforts to turn it in to a publishing arm like Netflix is doing but as far as I know they have been shuttered.
Re: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
#10I don't know if I have ever read a more generic, boilerplate quasi-condolence paragraph than this one: This isn’t a decision the leadership team came to quickly; it was the result of extensive considerations and road mapping for our future. We are proud of the work the teams have been doing, pushing into new areas with weekly content on Crown Channel, and finding more ways to help publishers reach new audiences with…
This comment is becoming a bit of a meme on these layoff threads. This paragraph actually seems less bullshit than many of the corporate messages around layoffs. “This was not a decision we take lightly, and we’re proud of the work these teams have accomplished, but we believe that if we are to succeed we need to take the business in a different direction.”
How would you improve it?