It’s a shame that people are being laid off, especially when it seems like it’s retaliation for complaining about working conditions. Still, I don’t think I’d ever be able to buy anything from ZA/UM after they kicked most of the creators out of the company and took control of the IP.
I wouldn’t want to buy an expansion from the people who stole Disco Elysium anyway.
Still do not understand how this wasn’t hostile takeover.
If anything the employees getting fired and the project being shitcanned adds another layer of social commentary
Yeah, this seems like the business equivalent of a slap in the face to the original devs.
The whole thing is such a clusterfuck. I’ve never played it but I can sympathize with how the fans have been jerked around.
I sympathise with them, but played it without any insight into any drama. It’s one of the best games I’ve played.
I you are into adventure games and/or like the idea of a story heavy rpg without combat I wholeheartedly recommend you trying it.
I’ve tried several games like it. Arcanum being one of the most similar but I just can’t get into that style, no matter how many times I’ve tried lol. Same reason I won’t play Planescape: Torment. Just not for me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I really wanted to get into planescape torment because I have heard amazing things about the writing and I have played decently far into the beginning (escaping from the body morgue complex into city) but the whole damn game is just grey and beige and I couldn’t take it after awhile lol.
I’m sure its got an incredible story and I’d love it if I actually sat down but im in the same boat. Just not interested.
It’s not very much like Arcanum, though. Arcanum and Planescape are moer or less straight RPGs, Disco Elysium is practically a variant of a point and click adventure.
It’s a point and click puzzle game with rpg elements, that’s how I’ve been explaining it
Facing redundancy? Facing fucking redundancy? Don’t give them that. Don’t let them pollute clear language by swapping in a new goddamn term. They’re being fired. They’re losing their livelihoods. Say it plainly.
Redundancy is very different to being fired though. When you’re fired you just lose your job and that’s it. If you get made redundant, you lose your job but get paid X amount of months worth of wages to make up for the fact you may be jobless for a while, while you look for a new one. X being different depending on both the countries laws and the company’s policies. But usually it increases the longer you’ve been with the company.
I get the sentiment. But to me personally, “redundancy” is pretty clear and doesn’t mask the pain that comes with being let go. There’s also generally a difference between being “fired” and being “made redundant”. Redundancy suggests that their job doesn’t need to be done anymore b/c of a restructure, bankruptcy, merger, and the company needs to meet certain obligations for that redundancy not to be considered an “unfair dismissal”.
“redundancy” is pretty clear and doesn’t mask the pain that comes with being let go
The whole point of this euphemism is to mask the pain.
And “facing redundancy” doesn’t even make sense. People can keep jobs that are “redundant”, this is only a meaningful event if they become “redundant” and then are fired. In fact, if two people have the same job, they are both redundant. Why even write a headline about that until you’ve chosen one of the two to get rid of? And yet, they did write a headline, because people being fired is a newsworthy event. People being “redundant” is not.
This is not merely a semantic argument. They are choosing to phrase it this way because they don’t like the taste of the word “fired” but they can’t avoid making some kind of announcement about it. I will not give them cover, I will demand that they say what they mean. This phrasing is cowardly.
It’s not the same thing so I’m not sure why you’re taking umbrage with commonly use and understood vocabulary. Being fired means there was a fault on the employees’ part, which isn’t true.
I feel like we’re maybe getting confused about terminology here? “Redundancy” is a specific term for a specific form of dismissal. It’s not a euphemism for “firing” because firing someone is a different kind of dismissal. Terms like rightsizing, reset, re-allocating resources, trimming the fat – these are certainly euphemisms for redundancy that should be called out.
That distinction means jack shit to the people that are “made redundant” and everything to the people that have an interest in marketing this as anything other than someone losing their job.
It does. Because being made redundant means you get a pay package when you lose your job. If you get fired, you get nothing.
The article states the layoffs will affect the UK division and EU division, I am assuming you are basing your statement on US laws. https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/notice-periods states that you will get paid for X number of weeks depending on how long you have been in your job.
I am in the UK, so I’m basing it on what I know of the UK