Disney, Junction Point hit by layoffs

Meh...another BIG Corporation downsizing to maximising their profit before Fiscal Year end.

@MooncalfReviews They helped out with Kingdom Hearts and lent the licenses but thats the closest I know.

Awn if only they made POTC Armada of the Damned, it could have saved their game division. Oh well just focus on making movies and your good.

I hate Disney it needs to go back to heck were it came from!

@hannify Cool. Thanks.

@hannify Where was it told how much they make?I see how much revenue they paid for acquiring Playdom.

Disney should be making 2 billion a year off games.

I don't think Disney have ever made a good game, have they?

This move is just down right Goofy! These are the people who make things happen, and this is how they're rewarded?

condolences to those who have lost their jobs, hope they find a better one at a better place. I hate these kind of news --- and I was hoping for Epic Donald... thank you for bringing Epic Mickey

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Good thing Disney teaches us the world is a fantastic place when we're kids... This is just cruel, you shouldn't just wake up one morning and be told you don't have a job, they should've at least given them a heads-up so that they could start looking for jobs elsewhere... My condolences to those who were laid off.

My best wishes to those who were let go.

Though it doesn't relate ENTIRELY to this article- I just started Epic Mickey a couple days ago and I'm loving it.

Well the game is finished, of course there will be layoffs.

Should have made a better camera for epic mickey

Nasty

It sucks that this has to happen to those who work hard on games.

@Toysoldier34 True. I was throwing a quick figure out there. Our Regional Director where I work at makes over 150,000 a year, and he really isn't that high up within the company.Market managers make around 80,000, so I can only imagine within a big videogame company like these, how much those CEO's are making.

In a Time where Finding jobs is Harder.. This is upsetting ;x

I wish good luck for those who lost their jobs. I seriously hope Junction Point stays around. Epic Mickey was awesome (my opinion) So i hope they hold up to make at least a couple more epic games.

disney...just quit the gaming biz and just concentrate on making movies. you obviously suck at managing game devs.

This sucks for those people they finish a game then kicked out the door but its how companies run and I hate it so lets hope they find a new company and make some great games =D @LeoLex_ what are you 12? because only someone of that age could act like such a child so please leave and comeback in a few years once you have matured.

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@Jedilink109. It's actually a standard practice in the games and animation industries...laying off employees after they've concluded a project. It's just not reported because as many jobs are created as are lost on a different project. Often though, a large portion of the staff is never hired back on for the new project because new people are being brought in. What's different about this news isn't that the layoffs happened, its that there are no plans for a new project to replace them. Which is understandable, given their yearly losses.

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Disney's Turok was okay, little bit great but it left me wanting a bit more challenge to be include. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for the Nintendo 64 and PC was the best one made by Acclaim Entertainment.

They screwed Armada of the Damned over for no explainable reason. They deserve this.

If they didnt spend so many millions on buying Marvel, they wouldnt need to lay off workers.........just saying lol

Isn't it great to know any time you work for a studio that once they finish a game you're going to get kicked out the door? What has the world come to? Gotta fire tons of people once they help you finish a huge project? Ugh. :(

I don't quite understand. So Epic Mickey is a huge success, and it's still not enough? Or it's just a matter of direction? 1.7M units sold (CVChartz) isn't enough?

It just layoffs, that's all, it's normal with every company that makes a video game and releases it that people move on to other job roles.

@Boba20077 I have this crazy theory that people might simply not have liked it.

@Mairusz69 none, lets just get them all out of the way and rename this site 'knitting-spot'. the real question is, how many terrible game devs do we need?

good, both Turok and Tron were horrible, considering Tron's neon lighting world they probably sould have done coordinating project with a studio like Bizarre Creations, they can't get enough of that neon... anyhow, good to see Black Rock Studio is untouched, I'd like to see them make another Split/Second

Seriously, how many "Game Developers" do we need anyways?

@godzillavskong For CEOs make that value monthly or quarterly and your coming closer to it.

Quality over Quantity. Make good games, make good money. Unless it had Call of Duty in the title or it is made by Apple; for if that is the case go nuts and release whatever you want because people have proven they will buy it regardless.

terrible game produces terrible results

It sucks for people who lose their jobs because the people on top cant do theirs, they make bad decisions like canning that PoTC game which was looking pretty good, but go forward with crap like Tron. Spend half a billion dollars on nothing, you don't see Nintendo doing things like that. They just make games like NSMB with mass market appeal, they are on the right track with things like Epic Mickey. Why spend all that money on some specialty developer, seems like a waste to me.

Lets just cut these overpaid CEO's pay instead of laying off the lower end of the work force. It is sad to see people losing their job, but I guess that's part of running a business to maintain a substantial profit margin, and payroll is a big part.I just hate to see this happen, while the CEO isn't willing to take a paycut, and he's raking in over 200,000 annually(estimation).

The thing that pisses me off the most when I see studios closing is when the same article mentions that the company that is firing people they've actually been working with recently paid a ridiculous price to purchase another studio in hopes of jumping on to the next big cash-cow craze. You know what sucks even worse? Reading an article a few years from now that says Disney just bought company "XYZ" that was founded by........... EX JUNCTION POINT STAFF!!!!!

start at management where they don't really do anything to contribute to development

wow, its really sad. hope those people find jobs, i know how hard it is now a days. good luck disney!

I like how people say that Epic Mickey sucked, but they haven't played it >_>

Let's expand while simultaneously kicking our employees to the curb.

Don't worry Disney, your corporation has expanded so you can always rely on Touchstone for games! :D Or CAN you?

Not surprising. Epic Mickey was very disappointing. I still can't believe how disappointing it actually was after so much hype!

I'm sure Disney could make some money once existing Marvel licenses expire with other companie. Then make those games themselves and profit. But it's a shame more people in the game industry are getting laid off. That's the scary part about working in it.