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   PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 21:48:03 JST PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

   Really feel for developers like Stairway Games who signed with Humble. The future of console versions of their game Coral Island is unknown for them and they're totally in the dark. They had to find out about Humble layoffs through the media - Humble didn't even bother talking to them or telling them about the whole situation beforehand. It's freakin' wrong. Ziff Davis (owners of IGN who are owners of Humble) IGN and Humble should all have done better.
   https://www.gamespot.com/articles/humble-games-layoffs-leave-developer-unable-to-update-its-game-or-release-it-on-switch/1100-6525328/

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 21:50:47 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @psychicparrot42 Absolutely atrocious on the part of ZD. Entirely sympathy for the affected external and internal teams - I was caught up in a no-notice Ziff-Davis layoff more than two decades ago, and the lack of communication is very clearly longstanding internal policy.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 01:46:49 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @psychicparrot42 By coincidence, I just found my letter of termination.

     They'd told us two weeks before the new year, and although they officially terminated us in Feb, I'd already checked out, fallen apart and didn't work out my final assignments, although I'd been promised transfer to GameSpot.

     (I was a very raw remote worker with absolutely no professional support or mentoring network and I'd never been laid off before! It was awful!)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 02:02:41 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @psychicparrot42

     Haha, thank you, but it was a long time ago, and I'm more or less over it. :D

     However, my general position is that Ziff-Davis so habitually engages in worker abuse that it shouldn't be allowed to do business, and today's events are just yet another example of that.

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     PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 02:02:42 JST PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear Aw sorry you had to deal with that. That’s awful. Especially when they don’t communicate properly or honour what they said they’d do.