Report: Embracer’s ongoing layoffs kill a new Deus Ex game after 2 years’ work

Swedish firm's acquisitions continue trend of layoffs and cancelled games.

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[pauleyc]

You smell that? Do you smell that?... Capitalism, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of capitalism in the morning.

Not as much capitalism but rather a complete inability to make reasonable and grounded business decisions that involve the livelihood of thousands of people.

So it's another case of management being a bag of dicks.

 

[pauleyc]

Not so much "inability to make reasonable and grounded business decisions" (though they're probably incompetent, too) as "lack of care whether or not their bets would end with results".

They were playing their own asshole game, betting big on the payoff from the Saudis resulting in fat sacks of cash to upper management. Now they'll flap their wings and just move off to another carcass.

Well, still a bag of dicks though.