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Lucas Arts lay-off another 50?

Lucas Arts have reportedly laid off a further 50 employees including senior staff members, RJ Berg, Randy Breen, Mike Lampell, and Daron Stinnett and additional staff reductions may be likely in the coming weeks.

This is the second time in the last several months that Lucas Arts have laid off a large group of staff in one go with the company letting go of 29 just last April.

This news comes a month after LucasArts announced that they are to withhold annual bonuses from the entire staff.



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Laying off 79 people in 6 months; withholding bonuses. This is evidence of severe money problems. Does anyone else think they are merely rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

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Sounds like they've already hit the iceberg at this point.

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sounds to me more like they are rearranging the splintered remains of the ship while the sharks circle under their feet.

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I'm sure glad Guybrush can hold his breath...

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Don't you think that the last months things are getting bad for lots of games (and not just games) companies.

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Maybe the fact that LucasArts makes sucky games is the problem? The only good games to come out in the past few years with the LucasArts logo on them have been outsourced.

The company focuses too much on the Star Wars franchise.

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Actually I believe the opposite is true...Lucasarts lost it's focus & farmed out it's bread & butter StarWars titles to outside developers while trying to make non-starwars games in-house that completely suck & do not have the power of the StarWars name behind it to get them by.

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