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Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

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Re: Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

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Post by darkwizard42 »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #47

Every year Riot releases a new cinematic for League of Legends to celebrate the start of the season. Last year they released the worst cinematic in all of their history. This announcement makes me wonder if their sudden rapid growth was at least partially the reason for why they ended up shipping such a bad video. In the last year Riot also started to sell severely overpriced skins, despite a lot of outrage from the…

Last year I believe the company they were working with had issues and they had to scrap together something urgently.

No comment on the other aspects but I suspect they are still printing money (comparing to Fortnite and Valve)

Re: Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

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Post by Madmallard »

Corporate greed? Unfortunately game companies often don’t recover as well from layoffs due to the completely unpredictable nature as to whether a game will be a success. Maybe Riot learned the hard way that you can’t just throw talent at a genre and expect to continue massive growth?

Re: Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

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Post by asylteltine »

devjab wrote: post #46
asylteltine wrote: post #24

Why is everyone doing layoffs at once? Is it just in the news now or are they taking advantage of everyone else doing it?

The economy isn’t doing so well and it’s not going to correct itself any time soon. It’s not really that noticeable on the larger scale but any company that produces anything non-digital is still having supply line issues. Not as bad as a few years ago, but still bad enough to cost the global economy a lot of potential growth. Then there is the higher interest rates, which in themselves are an issue for the economy.…

Is the economy bad? Seems fine to me. In general a “bad economy” seems entirely made up. It’s not like the money just disappears. I think it’s a concept invented to facilitate wealth transfers.

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

Blackthorn wrote: post #58
mjr00 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We know it has somebody with a foot fetish. Look at the footwear of all the female characters (at least the ones made before 2016, I haven't played it since then). ehh?? On the character models or splash arts? I've played for a long time and have never heard anyone else say this, outside of the French Maid Nidalee skin[0] which is obvious foot fetish bait. The most notable foot-related art commentary was always aro…

> ehh?? On the character models or splash arts? Splash arts generally. Almost every single one is wearing heels. Once you notice it you can't stop seeing it.

Women wearing heels in wildly inappropriate situations is pretty common media. The number of times I have seen some secret assassin, bodyguard, super hero archetype wearing impractical footwear seems to outnumber the times they are wearing an athletic shoe.

Re: Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

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Post by thenewwazoo »

goalonetwo wrote: post #57
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah to be honest, a half-year sabbatical with time to job hunt non-frantically is a luxury I've never had. I love my current job, but I would probably look at a half year severance like a vacation.

Sorry for the intrusive question but if you make software engineer level salary how is it that you don't have multiple months/years saved to mitigate for those possible layoffs? Or did we all fall for the lifestyle inflation trap that comes with high salaries? I'm probably a pessimist/realist but I have always lived way below my income and saved as much as possible because it really feels like the cash cow that softw…

The difference between multiple months/years of emergency savings and retirement savings is intent (and timeline).

I could afford to take months or years off, but I’d rather let that money grow in an interest-bearing account for decades and spend it later.

Re: Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

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Post by clovoak »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #47

Every year Riot releases a new cinematic for League of Legends to celebrate the start of the season. Last year they released the worst cinematic in all of their history. This announcement makes me wonder if their sudden rapid growth was at least partially the reason for why they ended up shipping such a bad video. In the last year Riot also started to sell severely overpriced skins, despite a lot of outrage from the…

Got a link to the cinematic you mention? Haven't heard of it.

Re: Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

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Post by goalonetwo »

thenewwazoo wrote: post #65
goalonetwo wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the intrusive question but if you make software engineer level salary how is it that you don't have multiple months/years saved to mitigate for those possible layoffs? Or did we all fall for the lifestyle inflation trap that comes with high salaries? I'm probably a pessimist/realist but I have always lived way below my income and saved as much as possible because it really feels like the cash cow that softw…

The difference between multiple months/years of emergency savings and retirement savings is intent (and timeline). I could afford to take months or years off, but I’d rather let that money grow in an interest-bearing account for decades and spend it later.

Sure, but in any case having savings (even retirement savings) allows you to not "frantically" look for a job and be slightly more selective.
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