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?”

 

[Staffan]

The vast majority game designers do not make this much, even those who own their ttrpg company.

WotC or Piazo are biggest outliers in our industry, which is why one of my pet peeves is when someone says the rest of the industry should be considered "indie" companies. We have a whole range of mid-sized shops like Green Ronin, Pinnacle, Free League, etc.

I'm pretty sure Paizo folks don't make anywhere near these numbers. There's a reason Wes Schneider, Ron Lundeen, Jason Tondro, and probably a bunch of others left Paizo for Wizards. And as I recall from stories told when Paizo were unionizing: getting first dibs on freelancing work was considered a perk of working at Paizo, because the actual salary was so low you needed that money to live in Seattle/Redmond.

6e isn't going to write itself.

Well, that's what the AI is for.

 

[sevenbastard]

Looks like someone at Hasbro finally read the 5.5 stealth rules.

 

[Lidgar]

Yay. If hired, stable work until Christmas.

Just don’t get your hopes up for that Christmas bonus.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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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?”

Let's hit those quarterly targets, no matter who suffers along the way. It's only business.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Let's hit those quarterly targets, no matter who suffers along the way. It's only business.

 

[SlyFlourish]

It wasn't hurting, profits were down, but it only looked liked it was losing money because they sold EOne for far less then he should have, and the regular folks payed for it.

I really need to get the full story on E-One. It sure looks like they lost a billion dollars in the couch cushions.

 

[FoolishFrost]

So… exactly what we knew was going to happen? They just reenforced our low expectation of them? They sold themselves to hasbro, and it ended exactly how we thought it would?

My sympathy to the people hurt, but I already stopped dealing with them. It’s the only vote I have.

<shrug> “eh. Same old show.”

 

[bedir than]

I'm pretty sure Paizo folks don't make anywhere near these numbers.

Paizo recently had a game dev position open for Starfinder. It paid 48k

 

[Blue]

@Snarf Zagyg , you seem to have a good way with understand and then explaining actual law to use lay folk. Generally with layoffs it's because the position isn't needed. If they are advertising for that position less than a year later, could that be a case of wrongful termination for the designer they laid off?

 

[Bedrockgames]

At a certain point loses too much institutional knowledge when they keep doing this