On June 06 2015 07:19 Saradin wrote:The guy who reported is the one who did the right thing to do, ethics-wise.On June 04 2015 14:15 cLutZ wrote:On June 04 2015 13:58 Saradin wrote:
'down the road' is not just Deficio. It's a warning shot for the rest of your current, and future, employees. A nip it in the bud sort of mentality.
Well its also telling potential future employees (and those with contracts upcoming) that they should demand significantly higher salaries from Riot than from comparable corps. Its somewhat short-sighted, because right now many of their employees are basically LOL-only personalities, but this could be a reason not many respected people are flowing into the dev side of the company, and it may be why Monte is so reluctant to become an LCS caster and Joe/Deman preferred migrating to other games with far less exposure.
It will be very interesting to see if Riot is a 1-hit wonder developer or if they can expand. Because many of their moves do seem to assume that their brand is built on being an elite company with ingenious ideas, instead of a few, somewhat lucky things they did in 2008, 09, 10 plus institutional momentum
If a prospective future employee can successfully demand a higher salary, more power to them. You're 'worth' what you can command, anyway.
My interpretation of Riot's moves is that they've basically put all their eggs in one basket, League of Legends. At most, they may make more products using the IP, but I don't see them branching out beyond this franchise.
Here I wrote a bit about my personal guess of Riot's intention, although it's messy.
Basically the lack of other games in the past 5+ years combined with the resources poured into the competitive environment tells me that Riot isn't necessarily following conventional videogame industry goals. I think that there's a bigger picture ambition here that I'm surprised at how few people discuss.