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Specialists my ass, they wanna keep on enough people to reduce the redundant amount below the 100 amount they need to give people little to no redundancy pay!

What?

Something about if you shut down a company with more than 100 employees being made redundant you have to pay 3 months redundancy rather than 1.
With Eidos keeping on 10 "specialists" they are only making 99 people jobless so only have to pay 1 month redundancy to everyone.

Cheers anonymous bloke! Makes me feel so much better while I update my CV...

Hey Pivotalboy

I think what you're getting at is that if they make redundancies that will AFFECT more than 100 people then they have to provide a 3 month consultation period, but just 1 month if it affects less.

I would have thought even if some are staying they're still "affected" - but there we are.

Shame, good studio. Decent bunch of people.

Flame bait extinguished (post 4). Now's not the time to gloat or snipe.

clarification: I mean what post 4 is referring to. Not post 4 itself! Hope the search goes okay, jobless...

Got to disagree with Fran. Good studios don't tend to get decimated. Each version of conflict sold less than the previous, while the studio tripled in size. That can't be good.

good studios can have bad publishers. not saying pivotal was perfect. im just saying there have been plenty of huge balls ups made that have been out of pivotals hands. alot of talented people there.

I though pivotal was one of the sucess stories for Eidos... would of thought the studio could of been sold as a going concern. Hope the staff find new opportunities swiftly. Mark.

This is from someone who used to work at Pivotal...A few parting words...

Am hoping that all the very talented and great staff members (you know who you are - you're the ones who bust your asses to make the company a buck and are now being shafted) find jobs soon...there are some great people there (Key word being SOME)

As for the rest of the people at Pivotal (and you know who you are), I hope this is a lesson learnt; that arrogance does not work in development, ignorance in creativity can lead to disheartened team members, finally lack of respect for your fellow co-workers, and most importantly, lack of respect for your employees (That one goes out to the Man at the Top, who's probably now at the bottom and deserves to be for the way staff have been treated in the past!) creates a killer team which makes AAA Games. The Conflct Series just didn't cut it for these reasons! LEARN FROM THIS, OTHERWISE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE POOR DEVELOPERS!!!

RIP PIVOTAL!

Thats harsh and cowardly! the management at pivotal have been busting there arses looking out for the staff who the hell are you to judge?

As with all companies, there are bound to be bad feelings that surface when the **** hits the fan, much of it justified.
However, it's not in anyone's interest to stand round a burning house chucking gas on the fire...

Here Here

For all you X-pivotal guys, I hear of a gaming company in Canada that is growing and currently hiring.
Check out there website www.hb-studios.com...
All the best :)

And for those of you not up for that, I hear that YouPron is a rather diverting way to spend your free time...

Does it pay though Realist?

Yeah, but face it, the games were ****e.....

To be fair, they've sold about 6 million units, and had rave reviews - so that's not strictly true. The last few haven't quite had the same passion or direction - especially C:DO - but the company's capable of doing some good work

It doesn't seem to matter any more if you do good games, have a great crew, or brilliant ideas. Some faceless corporate git with a spreadsheet for a soul decides you're gone, and you're gone.

The recent Pivotal Engine x360/PS3/PC couldnt even draw curved lines in the ingame interface.

Borat:
Great technology !

Cheers Wendy!

Hey i don't understand all the bad flap that's going on but i actually loved the Conflict Series games so to whomever looks at this i hope you can find a way to start the series again bc i wanna another game to come out bc i wanna know what happened to FOLEY....................................

You find out what happened to Foley in Conflict Denied Ops. He is actually in one of the levels.

I sympathize with your situation I have 2 titles that won't run on my Vista crap--and although cust service at Eidos is trying-- I pissed away my cash on crap software that won't run and by chance--finding this site--realize that a patch or fix for Denied Ops will probably never be forthcoming

Good luck to those looking for work in the UK--could be worse --you could be looking for work in the US--No Americans or Brits allowed--we outsource all our jobs to China and India...

had a mate who worked there and worked damned hard producing some good games will be a miss