I guess It's official, RIP Dynamix
by Max R Huskins · in General Discussion · 08/15/2001 (6:20 pm) · 3 replies
From todays LA Times business section
Sierra On-Line to Cut 245 Jobs
From Reuters
BELLVUE, Wash. -- Video game publisher Sierra On-Line Inc., a division of Vivendi Universal, said Tuesday that it would lay off 245 people and close one of its studios as it reorganizes its businesses.
Sierra said certain functions in its Bellevue, Wash., office not related to game development will be consolidated as corporate functions of Vivendi Universal Publishing. That will result in 148 job cuts.
Sierra will shut down its development studio Dynamix in Eugene, Ore., and move production to Bellevue, resulting in 97 layoffs. The company said it will divest all of the products in its Sierra Home division except for the Print Artist software, which will be managed from Los Angeles.
Sierra On-Line to Cut 245 Jobs
From Reuters
BELLVUE, Wash. -- Video game publisher Sierra On-Line Inc., a division of Vivendi Universal, said Tuesday that it would lay off 245 people and close one of its studios as it reorganizes its businesses.
Sierra said certain functions in its Bellevue, Wash., office not related to game development will be consolidated as corporate functions of Vivendi Universal Publishing. That will result in 148 job cuts.
Sierra will shut down its development studio Dynamix in Eugene, Ore., and move production to Bellevue, resulting in 97 layoffs. The company said it will divest all of the products in its Sierra Home division except for the Print Artist software, which will be managed from Los Angeles.
#3
We will always try to take exceptional titles to box, be it through Sierra/Vivendi, EA, Microsoft, whoever. Per our license with Sierra/Vivendi they have the first option on any title we want to take to box. That option expires Oct 15, 2001, after which they no longer have the right to the first opportunity to publish a box title from GarageGames.
--Rick
09/20/2001 (12:13 am)
Dynamix closing and Sierra being trimmed does not effect us.We will always try to take exceptional titles to box, be it through Sierra/Vivendi, EA, Microsoft, whoever. Per our license with Sierra/Vivendi they have the first option on any title we want to take to box. That option expires Oct 15, 2001, after which they no longer have the right to the first opportunity to publish a box title from GarageGames.
--Rick
Chris Willoughby
Well, it was only a matter of time before the Sierra (post Ken Williams) decided to kill the last major internal development house :(
*sigh*
Why can't we all just get along?