Marvel Rivals Developers Laid Off – What Fans Need to Know
An episode of the Coding With Strangers podcast, hosted by Coding With Strangers, titled "Marvel Rivals Developers Laid Off – What Fans Need to Know" was published on February 19, 2025 and runs 13 minutes.
February 19, 2025 ·13m · Coding With Strangers
Summary
Hey Strangers, #layoffs #gaming #marvelrivals Marvel Rivals is easily one of the most popular games this year, drawing hundreds of thousands of players on Steam alone. And yet it’s developer NetEase has laid off a team who worked on the game out of its Seattle-based studio.Game director Thaddeus Sasser wrote a post on LinkedIn about the layoffs, which specifically mention level designer Garry McGee as one of the affected developers, and level designer Jack Burrows corroborated the news with his own post.“This is such a weird industry,” Sasser wrote, “My stellar, talented team just helped deliver an incredibly successful new franchise in Marvel Rivals for NetEase Games […] and were just laid off!”=======================================My other podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw**************************************************Something Strangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s**************************************************article links:https://www.polygon.com/gaming/525114/marvel-rivals-layoffs-director-netease-gameshttps://gameworldobserver.com/2025/01/09/marvel-rivals-revenue-136-million-first-month-globalhttps://www.reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1hyzyyt/how_much_did_it_cost_netease_to_make_marvel_rivals/======================================Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discordhttps://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxqTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoderYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ?sub_confirmation=1Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangersTwitterhttps://twitter.com/strangestcodermerchSupport CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merchGithubFollow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangersTipshttps://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tipPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheStrangersWebullhttps://act.webull.com/vi/c8V9LvpDDs6J/uyq/inviteUs/Join this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ/joinTimeline00:00 intro00:26 What Talking We Talking About02:34 Article10:14 My Thoughts12:01 outro anything else?Take Care--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
Episode Description
Hey Strangers, #layoffs #gaming #marvelrivals Marvel Rivals is easily one of the most popular games this year, drawing hundreds of thousands of players on Steam alone. And yet it’s developer NetEase has laid off a team who worked on the game out of its Seattle-based studio.Game director Thaddeus Sasser wrote a post on LinkedIn about the layoffs, which specifically mention level designer Garry McGee as one of the affected developers, and level designer Jack Burrows corroborated the news with his own post.“This is such a weird industry,” Sasser wrote, “My stellar, talented team just helped deliver an incredibly successful new franchise in Marvel Rivals for NetEase Games […] and were just laid off!”=======================================My other podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw**************************************************Something Strangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s**************************************************article links:https://www.polygon.com/gaming/525114/marvel-rivals-layoffs-director-netease-gameshttps://gameworldobserver.com/2025/01/09/marvel-rivals-revenue-136-million-first-month-globalhttps://www.reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1hyzyyt/how_much_did_it_cost_netease_to_make_marvel_rivals/======================================Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discordhttps://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxqTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoderYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ?sub_confirmation=1Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangersTwitterhttps://twitter.com/strangestcodermerchSupport CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merchGithubFollow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangersTipshttps://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tipPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheStrangersWebullhttps://act.webull.com/vi/c8V9LvpDDs6J/uyq/inviteUs/Join this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ/joinTimeline00:00 intro00:26 What Talking We Talking About02:34 Article10:14 My Thoughts12:01 outro anything else?Take Care--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
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