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| News Article |  |  Hellgate staff leave "in droves".
12/06/2008 9:52am By Dalagonash
Flagship employee Guy Somberg is telling the world that Hellgate staff are leaving "in droves" via his blog at http://adiss.the-cabal.org/blog/. The game was released last year to lukewarm reviews and because it hasn't received the positive consumer feedback those working at flagship expected, everyone is acting very mature by throwing any toy to hand out of their big pram of solid employment and storming out.
"We’ve had programmers, accountants, HR people, and artists leave", writes Somberg. "The founders are all still around, but they’ve been floating away from Hellgate to work on various other projects. Thing is, the way things are going I’m likely to be the only programmer still working on Hellgate left from the original crew. I’ve heard rumours that other programmers and artists are thinking of leaving."
And with all these people leaving it means that Hellgate can not evolve simply because all the people that contribute to making extra content are not there to make it. Perhaps a post apocalyptic London is just not a nice place to spend an extended period of your career? "It could be much worse, of course. At this point, though, what I need is some fresh projects; I’m getting burned out onHellgate."
It's not all bad news, the title is doing well in Korea and will be launching in China soon so while the west might not want to potter around demonic versions ofPiccadilly and Trafalgar the game may still do strong on foreign shores. At least Mystos is shaping up nicely, so some people must still be working at Flagship.
The original blog entry has since disappeared but thanks to the magic of google, it can still be found here:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:EWj5vpvGDwAJ:adiss.the-cabal.org/blog/2008/05/09/work-is-depressing/+adiss+cabal+org+blog+2008+work+depressing&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us |
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