Author Topic: WWIIOL Cuts staff (Read 665 times)

jordi · « **on:** November 19, 2001, 04:15:00 PM »

From GAMEZNET

Cornered Rat Studios confirmed today that they have scaled down their staff somewhat recently. Here's a text bite...

Yes the player base is still growing. Paying subcriptions passed 10,000 a while back and continue to increase.We have marketing and sales activities to get more boxes on more shelves and promotions for the holiday season.The business facts are that we have to scale to fit the customer base, and we feel we have a strong team to move forward with more optimizations and stabilty improvements, new features and better gameplay.The sky is not falling.There may be some time lost for people to shift gears into new roles in a couple of places, but we feel the long term effect will be an improvement of our ability to reach our goals. Putting out an employee list would simply not be proper nor appropriate.

Rotorian · « **Reply #1 on:** November 19, 2001, 04:18:00 PM »

You are about to get hammered by the "Forum Policia"

SOB · « **Reply #2 on:** November 19, 2001, 05:19:00 PM »

This is the O'Club. For off-topic discussions...'tis OK.

SOB

Vulcan · « **Reply #3 on:** November 19, 2001, 05:31:00 PM »

Interesting, 10000 paying subscribers? When it went to market I remember the shelf sales being something like 30000 in the first few weaks.

That means 66% of people have either opted not to continue after the "beta" period or returned the product completely.

Hangtime · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2001, 06:45:00 PM »

*yawn*

I never bought it cause I heard right here it was useless, worthless and sucked hind tit bigtime.

Did I get bad info?

K West · « **Reply #5 on:** November 19, 2001, 07:40:00 PM »

sucked hind tit bigtime.

"sphincter suction lock" would be more apropo

Thrawn · « **Reply #6 on:** November 19, 2001, 07:43:00 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Hangtime:
*yawn*

I never bought it cause I heard right here it was useless, worthless and sucked hind tit bigtime.

Did I get bad info?

I bought it because, I'm a handsomehunk and didn'
t listen when they said, it was useless, worthless and sucked hind tit bigtime. Nah, ya didn't get bad info.

Tac · « **Reply #7 on:** November 19, 2001, 10:42:00 PM »

Translation:

"We fired a few of our staff, paying subscriptions are increasing...the one month subscriptions at least, 'cause they aint staying any longer, and we would like to assure you that we will continue to give you the great support and the same level of quality programming that has earned us a niche in the industry. The bottom feeding niche."

funkedup · « **Reply #8 on:** November 19, 2001, 11:36:00 PM »

I've met most of them in person at their offices and at various Cons, knew a few of them from fighting/flying with/BBS in WarBirds from 5 years ago, and did some Con partying with some of them too. Regardless of what happened with their project they are good, bright, talented people and I'm sad they lost their jobs. I wish them all the best.