Raven winged by layoffs

Singularity was an awesome game.

Maybe if they developed relevant games, this wouldn't have happened. The fired people should go to Respawn Entertainment lol

@N0Tyr yeah, i know, what i meant to say is that Activision has arguably the biggest franchise in video games + wow, starcraft, deal with Bungie, so laying off half of Raven's staff in the last year- WTF. It seems to me that Raven could soon be relegated to an auxiliary studio, commissioned to do movie tie-ins and dlc, or even be absorbed, which is a shame.

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Guys, most likely Kotick had nothing to do with this, this was probably the decision of the little people that work under him. Activision is one of, if not the best and most successful gaming companies there is....Have a little faith in them, they know what there doing. There just saving there shareholders some money by throwing out the slackers.

Does anyone still work for activision???

as cocky as kotik(:

Sad to hear. They developed of some of my favorite games...Quake 4, Jedi Outcast, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

not smart to lay off your people after a project... i dunno why companies do that... who needs extra staff for a shooter anyways? oh well, hoprfully raven will remain open for many years to come...

well their last 4 games were so forgettable it was bound to happen.....

Kotick has the worst hair ever

Oh well... what a shame. *No sarcasm*

@ mrDeviousArrows The costs of those billboards are like chump change to Kotick. If the guy would just shut his mouth for like a minute and he would have earned Raven's staff salary back in a heartbeat.

thats what happens when you focus too much on consoles, there just isnt much room for devs like raven on the consoles.

That's too bad. Being from Wisconsin (and attending the University of, which is also in Madison) I've always rooted for Raven. It's really too bad Singularity wasn't a bigger hit, and I think it would've been had it not taken so long to come out. Of course, it probably would have been a worse game, so it's sort of a catch-22. Too bad though; I always thought they were an innovative dev in the sci-fi/fantasy shooter genre.

I actually feel sorry for Raven. Quake 4 happens to have one of my favorite single-player fps campaigns on the PC. I also wanted to give Singularity a shot, however, it's published by Activision. Unfortunately for Raven, I boycott Activision by not buying any products published by them, and will continue to do so until they change for the better.

I can understand this. I mean Activision had find a way to pay for those Billboards in Times Square-- thanks, Raven!

A great developer like Raven doesn't deserve to have this happen to them. That's a real shame.

"Hey guys, thanks for making this game for us!... Now gtfo."

Raven are a great dev, this is a shame. Singularity could have been a big hit if it had got the right kind of promotion. You know the kind that the biggest game publisher in the world is meant to do. Similar to the kind of excessive hype a certain other first person shooter franchise gets... But its OK because there is one thing that gamers love more than playing games crafted with dedication and soul, is making fat cats some hard earned dolla'

de-activision

I gonna support these guys from now on. I live 40 mins. from this place. Go Wisconsin! lol

This is disgusting, Raven are veterns. Thanks Activition.

I'm very sorry to hear about these layoffs. Raven has created some really great titles, including some of my personal favorites, "Jedi Outcast" and "Jedi Academy" and "Soldier of Fortune."

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I've always been an id Software loyalist.

wow... no surprises for it's previous games specially wolfenstein which was truly an insult to the hole series but, Singularity is actually a very great old school FPS with a lot of interesting ideas, frankly i enjoyed it a lot more than Bioshock 2; as everyone mentioned below it's all Activision's fault. there were some days that i actually liked Activision a lot more than EA but with the past few years specially the recent events looks like it's even worse than EA!

They probably hired the 20 to get the game out the door, then fired them. Why not have another project ready for Raven to move onto? Just means Acti can make more of a profit from the game to off-set the losses incurred from Raven's previous relatively poor sales

Wow what is with all the layoffs in the developing companies and it's bad enough that the unemployment is high where I live but MAN this is crazy

@KotickIsGenius Lol WTH??? odd profile you have there.

It's just Activision weeding out all the slackers, all big companies do this all the time....hire a bunch to get a job done, then when it's finished keep the good, and lose the bad....it's just good business strategy.

We should start a worldwide revolt against Bobby Kotick's tyrannic rule of the gaming industry

I enjoyed Wolfenstein and Jedi Knight II is one of my favourite games, but Quake 4 was a bit dumb and Singularity was so derivative, however I do like Raven and I hope that this wont be followed by something worse.

"Winged"?

These people will get more jobs, it's not like they lack experience or anything.

Nothing special here. Studios these days seem to do this all the time. Release a couple games, cut staff... either make enough sales to rehire people, go under, or put the few left on extreme stress to produced another game. If that game is successful, rehire people. I feel bad for anyone in the game industry. They have 0 job security.

Quake 4,Wolfenstein and Singularity are big disappoint.I miss Jedi Knight 2 and Star Trek Elite Force.

Singularity looks like a good game, I haven't got round to that among many others of late.... and I won't be getting round to it any time soon with FO New Vegas and a baby on the way.

well its a shame that Singularity received no advertising at all, if it had maybe it would of sold a decent amount of copies, instead of virtually none, cause its a pretty good game

so thats how activision treats their devs... if the game they make doesnt sell 2 million copies people get fired. >_>

This may not have been necessary if Activision actually advertised Singularity enough to get it some better sales. It's too bad that Raven is owned by Activision, they've released some really cool games in the past.

The Prince of Darkness himself, Sata... err, Bobby Kotick, strikes again!

activision just thinks money!!

NO!! Not Raven! I want more X-Men Legends and Ultimate Alliance games, not generic shooters I've already played a gajillion times!

Singularity did a lot of things right. Hopefully people let go from the team find good jobs elsewhere.

That sucks,Singularity was certainly not revolutionary game,but it was fun as hell!

Now it's more than obvious that Activision are really killing Raven...Run,while you still can,Raven!

Evil Actimiktion ...... wonder whar will happen to Bungie ? 50 job cuts??? Too bad for the people that lost their jobs .... theres nothing like "Good job on x game ..... now you are fired" ... while Kotick still lingers .... miss the days of Jack Thompson , at least that dumb *** never did any damage....

I wish they could make another JK game... I know that isn't going to happen... but one would only hope.

They really should release Hexen 1 and/or 2 for the Xbox Live Arcade.

@irishscott99 EVEN SOF? Both games were great in their own repsect.