Re: Motorsport Games officially terminate planned IndyCar Series gaming licensing!

Be nice if Codies picked up the BTCC license..  Another TOCA game would be awesome 

Related, but not related but the amount of layoffs from game developers is frankly quite depressing. After the pandemic, the industry seemed to be bullet proof but mass redundancies everywhere at the moment is awful to see. Could we see redundancies at Codemasters? EA have been shifting personnel around and F1 23 hasn't been well received in terms of feedback and maybe even in sales targets.

@TotosHeadphones  @mariohomoh  has all the sales information.  He sent it to me earlier but went all over my head…. You’ll love it 😂

@TotosHeadphonesCodemasters? We can take a peek here and there in platforms like Glassdoor, but my hunch is that it's another Theseus's ship.

Regarding the wide industry, we saw a spike in activity in the COVID times and I guess a good chunk of that lazy money decided to flow down that pipe. And it is not like it became a bubble, but once the market resettled all those stakeholders are following suit.

Edit: haha here's what our @ScarDuck14 @ here is hinting at 😂

The SEC filing is also noteworthy if you can Ctrl + F your way down it.

@TotosHeadphones it's all doubling down on live services and noting how F1 is underperforming.

Regarding the industry wide discussion, this is appropriate and relevant:

For the unaware, Second Wind are all The Escapist expats.

The Escapist got shortsighted and pushed too hard for growth over quality. They fired their main editor and a few other employees. Everyone else from the video department resigned out of solidarity.

In the very next day they debuted Second Wind.

So, we were talking about redundancies and Codemasters have been hit by some too today. Looks like a large portion of the QA team have been let go

https://x.com/InsiderGamingIG/status/1731768601139417262?s=20

Explains why I havnt been promoted to Awesome Anti-hero 😁  Obviously they will be looking to me to handle all QA from now on💪😂. But I know my value and I’m worth more than the current amount of free games Im gifted… I’ll expect the  SimRig that I’ve been pestering for 😂.  

I will say this:  during beta we champions were able to report bugs directly to QA.  Think I reported half dozen,   How many off those bugs  do you think got fixed? 🙄