Turbine announces bi-coastal layoffs
by Alexis Kassan 
Dec 16th 2008 at 5:00PM
Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, News items
It's been going around. Last week saw Sony dropping staff (again), though not from SOE. Now Turbine has announced an undisclosed number of staff cutbacks from their QA and Account Management divisions. Both the Massachusetts and California locations have been impacted by this. The company has specified that they are not looking to outsource these functions, merely reduce redundancies.
Turbine has stated that there are no plans to reduce efforts going forward on Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online or any other projects. This is especially important considering the recent launch of Mines of Moria, the first expansion to LotRO. In fact, they are currently hiring - just in other departments.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bam! said on 5:45PM 12-16-2008
I bet they're looking at AC pretty hard right now.
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Tony said on 5:43PM 12-16-2008
Still, I feel bad for those getting laid off. I'd not like my job called a "redundancy".
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Coldbrand said on 10:20PM 12-16-2008
Is it bad that I see those little holes as Warhammer Tactic slots?
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HexDSL said on 3:41AM 12-17-2008
thats a shock, i thought that everything Turbine did tuned to gold. even though they are relatively small i thought they where doing REALLY well... guess not
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Iokthemonkey said on 4:03AM 12-17-2008
I made this point elsewhere: I don't understand why they've issued this statement. As they're so fond of reminding us, Turbine are a privately held company and can pretty much do whatever they want (not that that gives them the right to, but you see what I mean) so there's no NEED for them to make public any lay-offs...
Surely not commenting would be better than issuing some horrible PR BS-laden press release...
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joboutlets said on 10:33AM 1-14-2009
I have a very close friend, who graduated from Harvard. Worked for ML for over 8 years, recently he’s been “right sized” too, despite of his outstanding performance and the increasing revenue he generated. OMG, now the banking industry is badly hurt, how long it would take for those financial background guys like him get back to the job market. Banking jobs are not there as much as before as easily seen on http://www.joboutlets.com and other job sites in the region
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