How many employees does DTG have? What departments are there? The company looks like reduce staff some days ago. DTG is famous for its high-quality games. I'm afraid that I can't play high-quality games anymore. How do DTG celebrate April Fools' Day?
I am poor at English. I mean I feel that there are heavy problems in DTG. In my country, there are sign that going to bankruptcy. 1. An unknown event. 2. Everyone complains products. 3. No repair. 4. Clear out the last stock, even junk. 5. No longer cover up mistakes. 6. The End. For safety, I will not buy any products in near future, even with good discounts. In other bankruptcy games, you can still buy it with cheaper price, but it will never be updated.
Which is the most important? A. For long-term development, fix core system first. B. Continue to sell new products for cash. The latter potential problems: It will not be able to maintain or repair. People don't fix badly designed cars. It will be cheaper to buy a new one. I mean the old DLC cannot be repaired and neither will the new ones, because of bad foundation. It would rather discount, not repair. If cheap low-quality products can make people happy. Is it better for free junk?
Open Roles | Dovetail Games Number of roles being advertised, including an Assistant Producer for TSW. That doesnt sound like a company about to go bust to me.
Indeed. We can all be critical of DTG and oft times rightly so, but they don’t give the impression of a company about to fold. The current sale is on because it is the official Steam one, not a DTG fire sale. I suspect much of the work is also done on a commission and royalty basis rather than permanent salaried staff. They certainly need to look at quality control following some recent releases, but that is a management and departmental failure which should be pursued via internal performance initiatives or even disciplinary action.
We'll see after they publish their company reports next month, but based on what I've seen so far, DTG appears to be the opposite of a company on the brink. Year-on-year DTG's profits have been increasing and they've drastically expanded their product lines. All those partnerships can't hurt either.
Dtg isn't going bankrupt any time soon. Don't know where you heard that from. And who said dtgs staff members are leaving. Just cuz the content is poor doesn't mean it's going to shut down immediately. Not every single dlc is terrible. I believe other devs have made worse games but still standing. Even though dtg has over a hundred employees, they are divided between tsc, tsw, fishing and catan which is a brand new product.
You can bet DTG is having a more difficult time this year than it did in the previous 2-3 years. First, because the covid is now mostly over so people stay less at home (so they spend more money out and less for home activities). Second, because there are problems with the banking sector, interest rates are going up and entertainment software companies (not just DTG) are risk investments. So their costs are going up, and sales probably going down because of the inflation. That does not mean that DTG is going to close tomorrow. They just have more trouble than before, like many other people and companies. Just look around. For most people, this year is being more difficult than last year.
I would hazard a guess that they're doing better than ever, they also put their prices up last year because of increased costs despite a drop in quality (many bugs at release etc).
There's a significant amount of factors in Uk and globally requiring a lot of restructuring, realigning and reviewing of staff in a huge proportion of businesses. It's the way the world is at the moment. companies can hire, retire and make redundancies simultaneously
If I didn’t have to move to the uk and if I thought they could match my salary I’d apply to be a tsw assistant producer
Actually in the UK if you make a role redundant you can't remploy to the same role for the next ,6 months.
As someone who loves to, ahem, criticise certain political decisions and assumptions in the UK, I have to say: that is a very clever law. Other countries should copy it.
I'm in Hr mate, agree, though, I was recently part of a restructuring myself where changing job title and duties ever so slightly allowed the removal of someone , replacing them with a nigh on identical skillset without performance managing the old out (not me thankfully) . Cut throat world....
That used to be the case but you can get around it on a technicality these days. People that do so should have a hard time looking themselves in the mirror, but I believe you can do it.
If memory serves me right 20% of the duties have to change and the impacted employees the opportunity to reapply to be reassess against new spec unless they take VR. That Is of course unless the function is disappearing entirely
Just because something is illegal doesn't stop it happening that is true. A good union rep will usually ensure you are well compensated for it though. L The issue is most people aren't in a union so unscrupulous companies get away with it.
It’s not illegal. I don’t know when the legislation changed but I believe it has. Here’s a reference; https://www.davidsonmorris.com/how-long-before-you-can-replace-a-redundant-position/
I disagree. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the policy, there is a genuine legal need for the ability to do this if circumstances dictate. IMHO the issue comes when the type of people who all too often end up in management use it not as it was intended. FWIW I highly doubt DTG are on the brink, but I am baffled by this avalanche of DLC that is being thrown out the door come-what-may at the minute. There is a definite ‘end of financial year’ feel about it which is odd for an entirely comfortable company to be doing.
On the railway our union reps were often the people who in their main job did the least and talked the most, but being union rep it afforded them extra "job security" (protection from being fired).
Could be nothing more than a big push at the end of year to max out their bonuses. Realistically I'd expect most software businesses will be seeing a drop in sales in FY2022 compared to the covid years, so could be a case that sales revenue is lower then previous years and they're simply trying to close the gap.
I belive it's the other way around, actually. Children complaining about people "complaining" is very popular nowadays.
