WotC D&D Hiring New Game Designer Months After Firing Many

The job pays from $86-145k and is for an experienced game designer—presumably much like one of those they let go a few months ago!

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Notably, one of those let go in December in Hasbro’s company-wide cost-cutting cull of over 1,000 jobs was D&D designer Dan Dillon. Dillon posted on Twitter—“Well. There it is. D&D is hiring a game designer, 8 months later. Was it worth it, you soulless f*****g cowards? Did you save enough money?”

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

But sometimes people 'over scummify' things that have more reasonable explanations. Occam's Razor.

BUT.... that doesn't mean don't look out for corporate malfeasance. That is rampant. It's human nature. Again, my experience with folks at this level is that they don't intend to be bad, but they are often... soulless, as someone on this thread put it. These are people who are particularly driven. They achieve things through sheer force of will. Which is admirable in many ways. But some humanity can be left by the wayside.

Call out the bad. But do it with a plan.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I see where you're coming from. Corporations are not agents of good will, that's for sure!

Can you explain to me though how massive layoffs boosts stock prices? Lower operating costs? Is that your reasoning? VCs and other investors are typically too seasoned than to fall for that trick. Typically when the immediate result is lower output from the company. I can see a rookie team running a company to go for that, but seems unlikely.

Wall Street and Bay Street (Canadian version in Toronto, just as vile). Wall Street investors aren't smart, they usually are so short sighted that they often reward unwarranted layoffs with by buying up stocks, not always, but enough to encourage evil behavior. IMHO Wall Street should be so regulated that Wall Street is stripped of it's power to do evil.

 

[Morrus]

Wall Street investors aren't smart,

I'm sure some are and some aren't, just like any other group of people.

 

[bmfrosty]

I feel like the fuckery was one of those we need to cut everything by 10% types of fuckery and whoever was arguing to keep him didn't manage to make their case well enough. It still sucks.

 

[Morrus]

I feel like the fuckery was one of those we need to cut everything by 10% types of fuckery and whoever was arguing to keep him didn't manage to make their case well enough. It still sucks.

Watch your language, please.

 

[darjr]

I gotta say if anyone had the opportunity to hire Dan to create stuff and decided not to because of his comment, it’s not Dans judgment I’d worry about.

Because Dan is amazing and Hasbro letting him go was garbage.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Wall Street and Bay Street (Canadian version in Toronto, just as vile). Wall Street investors aren't smart, they usually are so short sighted that they often reward unwarranted layoffs with by buying up stocks, not always, but enough to encourage evil behavior. IMHO Wall Street should be so regulated that Wall Street is stripped of it's power to do evil.

I understand what you're saying. The nature of Wall Street is that it attracts the soulless among us. The positive feedback loop of the sort of behaviour rewarded by Wall Street makes this so. In my opinion (my opinion, mind you...), I agree with you that special oversight is required to make the world of investment fair to others.

To your point though... many investors would see mass layoffs as a weakness in a potential investment. For one, it's an obvious move to reduce operating costs. As a deeper look, it reveals that you have no faith in the kernel of your product and source of growth. Those folks are expendable because they do nothing for you! But why were they there in the first place? How will laying them off now help? You have fewer people to do your work, and they have less knowledge. You reduced operating costs, but it seems like an overall net loss.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

To be exact Hasbro was the one who laid off a bunch of people. People were surprised that Wizards also got hit with Layoffs as they were doing good.

Anyway don’t blame Dillon at all for being mad, as it shows he was let go purely so some numbers on a spreadsheet looked nice for a few months.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

To be exact Hasbro was the one who laid off a bunch of people. People were surprised that Wizards also got hit with Layoffs as they were doing good.

And the reason for that was not because of WotC's performance, but that Hasbro as a whole was hurting, so it had to seal the leaks by doing what it could across its entire enterprise. Not fair to WotC, but as a component of Hasbro, that's part of the cost. There are many benefits, but there are costs as well.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I gotta say if anyone had the opportunity to hire Dan to create stuff and decided not to because of his comment, it’s not Dans judgment I’d worry about.

Ouch! It sounds like you're saying his work is something to worry about, as it's worse than his comment. If you're intending this to be a benefit to Dan, I would clarify that.