TERA Employees Hit With Layoffs

Written by: QuintLyn Bowers (@QuintLyn) | August 9, 2012 1:14 pm

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According to some tweets made by En Masse Entertainment community manager Evan “Scapes” Berman, layoffs have begun and he was one of the people let go.

The news hit yesterday when, after being asked to clarify a tweet that read:

Hey guys, I’ve got this great new hashtag, made it today. Spread the signal won’t you? #HIRESCAPES,

he replied with:

Layoffs have occurred at En Masse. I was hit.

After which he expanded by listing some of his skills which seem to include making Nutella vodka. Why was this guy let go?

En Masse later made a formal announcement on the TERA forums saying that “while it was a touch decision, it was necessary as we prepare for the next chapter of our business.”

The post also stated that EME is helping those who are displaced by the transition and assures players that these layoffs do not change any plans they have for game updates including the Argon Queen update that will arrive later this month.

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Nearing to become free to play!
http://www.facebook.com/hkharpster Kyle Harpster

Yea, they don’t need community mangers or people that talk to the community cause EME doesn’t care about Tera’s player base and what they players want. EME and BlueHole have their own agenda for that game and are pretty much only making that game for their company to play. If the customers don’t like it well its not getting changed, so tough, deal with it. Also in general those people that where let go, really didn’t talk to the players that much and only closed threads and banned people on the forms. Other then that no actual talking about the game and changes that are being made cause of player feed back. Tera has many problems and EME’s westernization and not listening to what players want in the game is one of the games biggest issues. I would maybe hope that more layoffs are coming to the higher ups that decided this type of practice was a good idea for an MMO. Those are the people that need to be fired. If Tera and EME want the game to become bigger and get more money they are going to need to do a reboot, like FF14. As of right now its just the same old same old, unless EME is willing to make changes where changes are needed, Tera will be yet another MMO that will fade away in a few more months.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Willi-Enderle/1668850948 Willi Enderle

Do i smell F2P here?
Ardens

Yeah riiiight.
Why do ppl always come with that “ohhh after a game launches it usually loses many of the employees naturally”. That’s just BS Q!
First you check what positions they are getting rid of, then you can correctly access what is actually happening.
Just like w Swtor, you don’t fire CM’s because it’s a normal thing to do. You fire CM’s cuz there aint enough ppl buying/playing your game.
Sharuko

Reporting on layoffs is a good thing, but you have to be fair because there is so much bias here. When NCSoft layed off 800 people last month, I never heard anything on Gamebreaker. I mean 800 people is literally 20% of their company.

But when Blizzard, SWTOR or Tera does it becomes a big deal. Same with financial news, yesterday NCSoft had bad losses and their stock is down 30%. But little to nothing on that.

Sad news about Scapes, he was a good guy.
- Spammerbam
  
  Was it 500 or 800?
  There’s news about NCSoft, too.
  
  http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/ncsoft-merger-time/
  - See?
  
  Only difference was: no one made a dick move to attack En Masse.
  So, here we are on Tera’s article, and what’d ya know, surprise surprise..
  Sharuko is back to attack NCSoft because “there is so much bias here”
  and that he’s butthurt, all scared that people will make fun of Tera.
  
  Weren’t you the person that is all about being bias, and always attacking GW2 articles?
- H S
  
  LMAO! You’re the only person on these boards that make biodrones seem logical and rational.
  
  NCSOFT announced it is going to acquire a western game developer. Rumors say EA or Blizzard. Hence the sell off, since it will cash starved if it does.
  - HarmonBlues
    
    Let his comments forever fall on deaf ears.
  - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
    
    NCsoft doesn’t have the money to buy Activision Blizzard, as NCsoft lost 6 million in the last quater.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/ITHF7XKYGVXFAPCDMDJTKHLBBU Lian Wan
      
      If they really do want to buy ATVI that 6million doesn’t look like it would change much one way or the other. On the other hand a previous article mentioned Vivendi trying to get rid at least some of its’ shares.
      
      I am not sure how GW2 can be profitable only for ANet if NCSoft is getting 75% of the sales.
  - Sharuko
    
    Jason literally put the bad news in the footnote because that is how GBTV rolls. The story spun it around to talk about some type of merger with EA. EA and NCSoft are made for each other they would fit perfectly. Or Zynga another perfect fit.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johnson/1353890372 Michael Johnson
  
  Did those 800 people laid off have anything to do directly with Guild Wars?
  No?
  
  HOLD ON, JIM! We might have a clue!
  - Sharuko
    
    First you are assuming no one related to Guild Wars was hit. Second, regardless should this site only cover news related to GW2? And not news of a major MMO publisher/developer?
    - Spammerbam
      
      Well En Masse is quite big, too, isn’t it? Since you speak to highly of it.
      Here we are having Tera news and now you’re butthurt, going back to attack NCSoft (like always) as if it has anything to do with this.
      - Sharuko
        
        En Masse has about 60 Employees. NCSoft has 4000 and Arenanet has 300+. So if you think 60 employees is “big” more power to you.
        
        NCSoft has everything to do with this. They are a little bully that harassed En Masse and Blue Hole for years taking them to court.
        
        They had a settlement on the lawsuit just yesterday just around the layoffs occurred. That settlement must have cost them. So they had to lay people off to balance costs.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johnson/1353890372 Michael Johnson
        
        NCsoft has enough money to buy EA. If they lay someone off, it isn’t because of financial trouble.
        
        And yes I do know that no one from the Guild Wars team was laid off because no one on the development team has SAID anything.
- Spammerbam
  
  ”because there is so much bias here”
  
  Haha, weren’t you the person that is all about being bias and always attacking GW2 articles?
- Jay
  
  Don’t be upset Sharuko The folks behind Tera can always rely on your subscription, right?
  
  It sucks when a group of people get laid off, but don’t take it out on Gamebreaker. The game didn’t step up to the plate… So now its gotta ride the bench.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/7YVENECTOWEBMIFH5JZ5PPZHVQ Peachie Pie
    
    They can rely on some other gullable turd who thinks the game is World of Warcraft Savior. Not my wallet.
    
    Enjoy throwing money at a game in vain when there’s already games out there that have the SAME combat as this Terable crap does. With no lousy subscription and killer cash-shop and butchered content attatched.
- http://twitter.com/Bubba_Big Make It So
  
  They didn’t behead him. He still IS a good guy.
- Kagitaar
  
  NCSoft laying off people doesn’t really matter around here unless they are associated with Arena Net, they have way too many other blah games to keep track of.
Spammerbam

LOL, I guess reporting on layoffs is a good thing, huh.
http://profile.yahoo.com/7YVENECTOWEBMIFH5JZ5PPZHVQ Peachie Pie

Oh and we thought the game was going to fail soooooooooooooo bad if elin wasn’t censored.

The game is failing anyway. Idiotic censorship. Idiotic publisher. Better luck next-time.
Kagitaar

Actually Q, when you open a store or have a holiday, you hire temps; you do not hire full-time people then dump them. Training costs you money, hiring costs you money, firing costs you money, searching for people costs you money, you don’t just hire and fire wily-nily.

Edit: To add to it, CMs are a decent indicator of the company’s health, as they are going to be in closest proportion to the player-base.
http://profile.yahoo.com/SMGRLFM4UASOO7QO26HTHBLIOI Shawn

I’m laughing so hard at Sharuko right now.

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