I keep on trying to come up with something to say here about NCsoft and the layoffs. I dunno; I feel like most of what I want to say would break some trust placed in me. What's terrible is that for the most part, I'm not particularly surprised: it's astonishing what the (public) rationales are each time, it catches me off guard who the targets are each time, but that it's happening? Nah.
I hope the best for my friends still there, working on Dungeon Runners and Aion and scattered through out other parts of the company. I hope the ones who got laid off today, the ones who got laid off six months ago and are still looking for work, and the ones in between find jobs soon.
Other than that, I think Scott Jennings says it best: ENOUGH WITH THE GODDAMN LAYOFFS.
I was expecting this since the "noobs" up there.. concentrated everything on the TR failure. After a few days in that Beta.. everyone I spoke to.. was thinking exactly the same thing.. "What a waste of money" Didn't take long to get the live confirmation. Oh well.. "priorities".. NCSoft had to please "Mr." Garriot.
Best of luck!
NcSoft has lost their way and somewhat because of the code stealing and sharing running amok in Korea, their userbase will continue to be able to play on private servers and NcSoft will continue to hemorage money until the company is gone.