Epic Insists "Mediatonic's Work On Fall Guys Continues To Be A Company Priority"

Mediatonic was better off alone.

It was mostly just fat that needed trimmed within the mobile game branches, but putting Fortnite in the articles always works to add confusion!

@HotGoomba Alright then Alice Deejay

Consolidation Hell working as intended.

"Outside core game development"

And on basically the same day they had a pay a 2.75 settlement around loot boxes.

So yeah, this is the legal, marketing and exploration team around exploitation based free-to-play models, while the development jobs lost well be all the art teams tasked with skins and other loot box content. It Likely also includes some cancelled games that were going to be funded by loot boxes.

I would make some popcorn for all the comments about how mad people are they fired the people working on the things they they constantly say we need to fire everyone working on, but sadly it's epic and not Microsoft who did the lay offs, so no one is going to even click the link, let along leave a comment.

As for me, I'll pore one out for you, my brothers. You didn't choose to work on a doomed project, and I'm sad to see you let go ... even if it might be for the best in the long run.

Fall Guys has been feeling more and more barren recently. They removed seasons, player counts per game, and they rarely have events anymore.

This news of layoffs didn't help... but I'll remain hopeful. I think if they lower the scale of the game and focus on the basics, the game can swing back. The core gameplay is still fun but they kinda shot themselves in the foot by focusing so much on Fall Guys creative and vaulting rounds.

If they focus on bringing back more rounds, having regular events, and having some cool fame passes (which are reasonably priced now)... I think the game still has a solid future. The upcoming Halloween fame pass looks great.

Maybe I'm just optimistic cause I like the game haha but here's hoping.

@nessisonett Weirdly enough that's kinda close to my alias outside of this website

These people received 6 months pay, 6 months free health insurance and improvements to their stock vesting?

The stories around this are absolutely ridiculous.

I did not expect this! I really like Fall Guys but despite adding creative mode it feels sort of… empty recently. Perhaps this is why.

@Altaria_97 Creative Mode was cool and all, but it pretty much came across as "Now we don't have to pay anyone to make new rounds."
I can't play solo show anymore without fear of hitting a round with janky hit detection, awkward camera controls, and the longest respawn time imaginable.

Fall Guys was better when the season was just five new QUALITY rounds.

Epic says it doesn't have any more layoffs planned and is still actively hiring in other roles.
This is strange so those being laid off doesn't skill to fit other roles? They laid off alot but don't some of those have skills that can fit the new roles?

@SwitchForce

If you read my post (#5) it has some possible insight into this.

You also need to note that one of the ONLY labor protections offered consistently in the US if that you can't just straight up lower someone's wage. This includes using loopholes like offering them a different position that pays less. As such, they are almost always going to fire you and have you re-apply for a new position, so they can pay you the starting wage for that position even if it's less then what you are currently earning.

Finding people jobs within the company to prevent them from being let go generally only happens in unions (where it almost always included in the collective agreement) and in Japan where the job culture is very different and being forced to let someone go is seen as a HUGE failing of their supervisor and something to be avoided at all costs.

That is a nice severance package though. If they have strong resumes that is almost free money.

Fall guys is the closest we ever came to a 'fortnite killer'. The amount of times the game seemingly died and came back was legendary

Amazing that Nintendo was able to go by without mass layoffs during the Wii U doldrums, while Epic is "forced" to layoff 1/6th of their entire workforce while they have...check notes...one of the most successful games ever made in Fortnite.