Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM
Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM
UPDATE 16/2/24: A follow-up report by GLHF has added further fuel to the fire engulfing troubled Disco Elysium develope…
I wouldn't want to buy an expansion from the people who stole Disco Elysium anyway.
110Yeah, this seems like the business equivalent of a slap in the face to the original devs.
29If anything the employees getting fired and the project being shitcanned adds another layer of social commentary
25Still do not understand how this wasn't hostile takeover.
19The whole thing is such a clusterfuck. I've never played it but I can sympathize with how the fans have been jerked around.
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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.
38Redundancy 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.
28I 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".
13“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.
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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.
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