Ah, more corp-speak/rhetoric.
Increase agility? Get out there and grind the courses with the rest of us!
people just use agility dummies if they have them or the silverhawk boots.
Silverhawks are the only reason I ever got above 40 or 50 agility. The courses are so grindy, for virtually zero benefit.
I’ve never understood how reducing your staff can make a company more agile. Surely that’s putting a greater workload on the people that are left. Also more agile while focusing on what matters most?
Agile when used like this is 100% some lean leader bullshit buzzword. It just means your focus will shift as per your bosses whims.
They’re owned by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. It’s just their way of saying they’re gutting the staff to increase profits for shareholders.
In 2006, CVC and Permira were accused by Labour MP Gwyn Prosser in the House of Commons of “greed” and “blatant asset stripping” of The AA “to borrow £500m on the basis of The AA’s assets in order to pay themselves a dividend.”
There’s been some pretty clear cases where the OSRS team has been forced to look into microtransactions, or profit-focused mechanics that have had huge pushback by the player base and they know that.
They can only fight the shareholders for so long, jagex is on its way out.
Sucks but that’s capitalism baby!
PVE will destroy companies wherever it touches eventually. rs3 is like on its 3rd owners right now.
It’s bullshit doublespeak that really means “we’re cutting costs (in the short term, the only term that matters)”. Reducing headcount doesn’t reduce the workload, it just means each remaining person has to do more work.
to record profits to investors.
For a little while.
I guess you can have people who do things that deliver little tangible business value and you scrap those projects, that would lead to focus on areas that are most valuable (from an exec POV) and then you scramble the teams some and let them adjust to needs in the process, aka agile.
Sure they’re trying to sell a bad thing as a good thing but that doesn’t mean that’s it’s not the right thing for them (execs).
Disclaimer: did not read article
They are called middle managers.
A company can become more agile with layoffs if you have a bunch of useless middle managers who exist only to justify their existence and you lay them off.
I don’t remember who but someone made a good example with the “this is fine” meme in Clair Obscur. Someone on the development team came up with the idea and it probably took a day or two to set up. So they took a day or two and it’s in the game. Had the game been made by Ubisoft that meme would’ve never ended up in the game because the idea would’ve gone through 5 different managers who need to give their blessing (because none of them want to take the full responsibility in case it sucks), then it goes through legal to make sure there’s no infringement, then through pr to make sure it’s not somehow offensive. Eventually a week has passed and management is still deciding if it should be implemented. Finally it gets canned because the time spent on making the decision had already made it too costly to implement. Something that could’ve been done in a day took a week and nothing got done.
But I’d be surprised if that kind of downsizing is what Jagex had in mind.
Cutting back on bug fixing and new content, focusing on optimizing in game purchases
I love Dragonwilds, I really hope they don’t add micro transactions
I think people having jobs is what matters most.
Why weren’t they doing that before?
