Marvel Rivals, a multiplayer shooting game which, by all metrics, is widely successful, is the product of a joint development during the Netease Games between a team in China and a team in North America. According to several articles of members of the North American side, the team has been laid off and is looking for work. There is no word on the team in China.
The news came today An article by LinkedIn by director Thaddeus SasserWho begins his post praising the virtues of his team with a succinct “is such a strange industry …” Sasser says that he and his team were released.
Later on LinkedIn, Jack Burrows – The Marvel Rivals level designer – Make his own message Confirm the layoffs and seek work.
It would be difficult to blame these dismissals on Marvel Rivals’s performance on the market, because the game has both become a feeling of revenue and streaming. Launched in December of last year, Marvel Rivals took an impressive estimate of $ 136 million during his first month, with estimates of $ 1.36 billion if it remained relatively coherent during the year.
Netease has not announced any modification or cessation of the roadmap or the Marvel Rivals plans, suggesting that the team in China will probably only take all aspects of the game in the future. However, this testifies to the possibility that Netease can reassess his largest game portfolio in the future and consider their North American investments as a vestigians. In this case, a large part of the money they have invested in the game industry in the last decade can be quickly withdrawn.
