Rumor: Mythic layoffs hit QA, playtest and customer support

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Very sad, don't really know what this says about the future of the game, polish is important to players, and losing QA resource and playtesters, means they will just ask members of their community to do this for free.

I don't know how well WAR is doing right now, but I don't think they'd make these type of cuts if things were a raging success. Maybe they are just shedding additional staff a bit after launch, if so, they could have at least expressed it that way.

Maybe people with their feet up on the desks will appreciate that no one has a job for life and it might pay to look busy. Maybe people who are preoccupied with making endless youtube videos of themselves, will stop mucking about and act a little more professionally.

The people who have gone are those who really had to work at the sharp end of the industry, and for every one producer, there are many many support staff, QA staff and testers waiting to fill that role. I hope this acts as a wake up call to those at the helm of this ship.

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Well said. Companies use times like this to get rid of the 'less productive' people who it would've been harder to justify firing in more prosperous times.

The key to success has always been relatively simple. Be reliable, work your butt off, and continue to educate yourself. The ability to adapt to change is a plus, as well.

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Hey Angry - I was anti-WAR for quite a bit because I felt that they shit the bed for all of the reasons that have been covered here at Massively. I went back to WoW just before my first month of WAR was up - I felt that the game had numerous flaws, but the biggest for me were:

1 - UI responsiveness
2 - combat speed
3 - RvR was meaningless - for a game built around Keep sieges nobody wasn't was even RvR'ing, but just doing Scenarios.
4 - PVE was nonexistent - PQs got boring very quickly.

I went back to WAR after reading some of the changes; the UI was improved, combat feels faster and most of all they added some nice rewards for RvR. The wait times for Scenarios have shot up since almost everybody is running around RvR'ing - and its a blast now.

There are still some major issues with bugs, glitches and stability that need to be addressed in order to keep my interest moving forward.

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