1y ago

Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM

www.eurogamer.net

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I wouldn't want to buy an expansion from the people who stole Disco Elysium anyway.
How Disco Elysium Was Stolen From Its Creators
About the Disco Elysium Investigation (It's bad.)
- Yeah, this seems like the business equivalent of a slap in the face to the original devs.
- If anything the employees getting fired and the project being shitcanned adds another layer of social commentary
- Still do not understand how this wasn't hostile takeover.
- The whole thing is such a clusterfuck. I've never played it but I can sympathize with how the fans have been jerked around.
  
  I sympathise with them, but played it without any insight into any drama. It's one of the best games I've played.
  
  I you are into adventure games and/or like the idea of a story heavy rpg without combat I wholeheartedly recommend you trying it.
- Redundancy is very different to being fired though. When you're fired you just lose your job and that's it. If you get made redundant, you lose your job but get paid X amount of months worth of wages to make up for the fact you may be jobless for a while, while you look for a new one. X being different depending on both the countries laws and the company's policies. But usually it increases the longer you've been with the company.
- I get the sentiment. But to me personally, "redundancy" is pretty clear and doesn't mask the pain that comes with being let go. There's also generally a difference between being "fired" and being "made redundant". Redundancy suggests that their job doesn't need to be done anymore b/c of a restructure, bankruptcy, merger, and the company needs to meet certain obligations for that redundancy not to be considered an "unfair dismissal".
  
  That distinction means jack shit to the people that are "made redundant" and everything to the people that have an interest in marketing this as anything other than someone losing their job.
It's a shame that people are being laid off, especially when it seems like it's retaliation for complaining about working conditions. Still, I don't think I'd ever be able to buy anything from ZA/UM after they kicked most of the creators out of the company and took control of the IP.

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