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tres on 26 February 2014
EEJLND said:
Oh guys, now I really have to step in because some people here talking so much crap with absolutely no understanding what's actually going on at Santa Monica Studio.

So, for clarification:

SMS is moving into a bigger facility this summer - this new facility is being constructed right now from the ground up and furthermore will feature a state-of-the-art recording studio and a cutting-edge motion capture facility. Since this expansion announcement they were increasingly searching for new talented people to join the team.

And I just checked the job openings on the SMS and Sony PlayStation website and guess what: There are a bunch of job openings available, and many of them are for senior positions

A valid reason for the recent lay-off is that Santa Monica Studio simply has received pretty good applications to replace rather mediocre people with really great and talented people. And the timing could not be better, just before moving into a new facility.

What now will be interesting is whether the one of the unannounced projects really has been cancelled or not as Sony did not comment on that matter.

...seeing people arguing that Sony fired those couple persons in order to save money is really depressing. Do you know how big Sony is and how many employees they have?
Really, if you don't understand anything about economy and furthermore do not know a single thing (facts!) what is happening on the side of a developer studio, you should better be quiet and stop spreading false information.

ok i spit my drink.  you work for sony?  i mean only sony corporate and those at santa monica know what happen. i made a post a few days ago citing the recent article about how long can sony survive and was mock lol.... i had to laugh at that.  laying off employees, selling off assets, closing sony stores.  sony fans better buy every exclusive if they like them or not to keep that boat floating.  everybody xbox fans and all cried and saying the craziest stuff like that MS corporation want to make money with the whole DRM stuff.  I wonder what gamers will do when all they have left to play are mobile games.



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Goatseye on 26 February 2014
FATALITY said:
maybe they will un-cancel shangheist :P

Probably waiting on a release date for The Last Guardian.



tres on 26 February 2014
endimion said:
Lol... Like MS gonna hire the bad ones... You really think you get hired just showing a resume???? And having SSM written on it???


i dont know if i would hire actual sony employees.  thats probably how cboat became an insider.



JoeTheBro on 26 February 2014
Goatseye said:
JoeTheBro said:
 

Alright. Your OP is ridiculous if that single line is the only thing you wanted to talk about, but you do what you do.

Thank you for sticking around in this ridiculousness!!

Well it's still an interesting thing to discuss even if only 1/10 of the OP is about it.

 

Personally it could be a sign that Black Tusk is doing multiple projects.



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Goatseye on 26 February 2014
JoeTheBro said:

Well it's still an interesting thing to discuss even if only 1/10 of the OP is about it.

 

Personally it could be a sign that Black Tusk is doing multiple projects.

Ding ding ding ding.

Multiple projects, thank you. I didn't think of that as easy as it might sound.



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JoeTheBro on 26 February 2014
Goatseye said:
JoeTheBro said:
 

Well it's still an interesting thing to discuss even if only 1/10 of the OP is about it.

 

Personally it could be a sign that Black Tusk is doing multiple projects.

Ding ding ding ding.

Multiple projects, thank you. I didn't think of that as easy as it might sound.

Well even before Gears stuff happened they always talked about multiple projects. The Shengheist team was moved to gears, and new recruits can join the smaller team on a smaller project.



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Goatseye on 26 February 2014
JoeTheBro said:
Goatseye said:

Ding ding ding ding.

Multiple projects, thank you. I didn't think of that as easy as it might sound.

Well even before Gears stuff happened they always talked about multiple projects. The Shengheist team was moved to gears, and new recruits can join the smaller team on a smaller project.

I knew that but the possibility of accruing seasoned workers used to big projects, might give them an injection of confidence of Xbox division to trust them with multiple projects.



DeadBigfoot21 on 26 February 2014

Microsoft already has alot of talent and they are making games on xbox one.
But more talent is not bad. E3 will be amazing!



S.T.A.G.E. on 26 February 2014
endimion said:
Lol... Like MS gonna hire the bad ones... You really think you get hired just showing a resume???? And having SSM written on it???


SSM Quality development...vs MS level development. Yep....Microsoft would take SSM table scraps in a second. They can fix almost any game and I cannot wait for Sony to let them off the leash and create their own game. Once they are finished helping out with the Order I cannot wait to see what they will be allowed to make by Sony. As have seen from watching E3 for the past what...five years? MS takes pride in affiliating themselves with ex-Sony staff. Hell they even built up Insomniacs game right after they left exclusivity with Sony just because they were affiliated with them. They were so happy to have a Sony affiliated game as a multiplat.



theprof00 on 26 February 2014
endimion said:
Lol... Like MS gonna hire the bad ones... You really think you get hired just showing a resume???? And having SSM written on it???

OP doesnt say they were hired.