Riot Games unexpectedly announced another layoff. Riot co-founder Marc Merrill says the move will help better develop League of Legends. So it’s not about saving money, he says, but about making sure the employees are the right people to keep their biggest game at the top of the gaming charts for the next 15 years. He also added that even though this is the second layoff this year, the League of Legends staff will eventually increase to prepare for the next phase of the game.
Although Merill did not comment on the exact numbers of people fired, a spokesperson for Riot Games, Joe Hixson, statedthat it should only be 32 employees. According to Merrill, they will receive severance pay including at least six months’ pay, an annual bonus, help in finding a new job, health insurance, and the like. In short, they have enough time to adapt in peace. So it is certainly nice to see that, at least in this case, the employees did not find out about the dismissal via social networks, as was the case with the first layoffs this year.
It is necessary to prepare for an increase in active players
Merrill concludes his statement to dismissal in Riot with the idea that:
“While the League of Legends team will ultimately be bigger after these changes, more important than the number of members is having the right team, the right priorities, and a sustainable approach to giving players what they need. If we’re solving the wrong problems, more resources won’t fix it. It’s about building a smarter and healthier team, not just a bigger one.”
Despite the partial fall in the monthly number of active players, according to the site activeplayer.io the game is still doing very well. It should reach more than 130 million active players per month, which is still a really respectable number after so many years. However, it is logical that if the company wants to progress in development, it will have to make changes over time.
The number of League of Legends fans will certainly be helped by the upcoming release of the second season of the highly successful Arcane animated series on Netflix. In addition to series enthusiasts, it will also attract music fans, who will find their way to Arcane 2. In terms of music, it doesn’t have, among others, Mike Shinoda with Emily Armstrong (Heavy Is The Crown), Twenty One Pilots (The Line), or of course, Imagine Dragons with their intro song (Enemy).
Source: www.sector.sk
