Marvel Rivals Community Manager Clears Air About Recent Layoffs, Reassuring Fans Game Director Still There
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Surprising news has surfaced today, when members of the Marvel Rivals development team were laid off. Yes, the same Marvel Rivals that has been lording it over the multiplayer scene since it launched in December of last year.
The news surfaced from the LinkedIn profile of Thaddeus Sasser, a game director for Marvel Rivals’ R&D (Research & Development) team, which various members of Sasser’s team then corroborated.
Marvel Rivals Still Has a Game Director Contrary to Reports
Sasser’s statement reads:
This is such a weird industry…
My stellar, talented team just helped deliver an incredibly successful new franchise in Marvel Rivals for NetEase Games…
…and were just laid off!
Oh well! Times are tough all over – Let’s find these incredible people new jobs, because we all need to eat, right? 😀
Sasser continues his message in recommending Garry McGee, the Technical Designer of Marvel Rivals.
Now here’s where things get interesting, multiple outlets are reporting that Marvel Rivals has lost its game director, which is technically true and untrue. Confused? While Sasser is technically a game director, he is the director of the US-based team in Seattle, which according to him, was mostly the “R&D branch”
Over on the Marvel Rivals Discord, the game’s Community Manager has commented to provide clarity on the game’s development. While layoffs have indeed happened, the Community Manager named “James” spoke about today’s development to clarify a few things:
- Theres only 1 Director, and that is Guangguang, I do not like false rumors being spread discrediting the work our team has poured in ever since development
- Lets not reach an conclusion on workplace harassment when you dont even know what the structure is like within the rivals dev team. I’m simply saying this because it is phrased wrongly by the media initially, totally funny
While hearing about the layoffs are no doubt a blow to the game, we just want to clear things up that the game still has a game director. We’ve reached out to NetEase to seek further clarification on the layoffs, and we’ll update the article if we get a statement back.
We hope everyone affected gets to land on their feet as soon as possible.
In other news about Marvel Rivals, the game’s mid-season patch, which brings The Thing and Human Torch into the game, will be released this February 21. Stay tuned to MP1st; we’ll have the patch notes up once it’s live.
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The post-credit scenes had me screaming! Marvel really knows how to keep us hooked. Did anyone else catch that Easter egg?