Sony Online Entertainment lays off 41 full-time workers

[Darkon]

Hrm Interisting wonder how many GMs or real customer service folks got the AXE.

article here

 

[orion949]

Yet another sign of rigor mortis setting in but I refuse to believe that EQ will not outlast UO. By sheer principle UO must die before EQ!

 

[JimJohnson]

that article doesnt say EQ employees. SOE employees like 200 people full time for GM work between EQ/EQ2/SWG/AoC/Other Games. They are just going towards more guides less GMs, guides cost 30$ a month(2 free accounts) and they get like 20 hours a week out of them.

 

[SiegeTank]

Always wondered how they get around Wage & Hour laws using guides. I mean try to use "volunteers" to run a hamburg stand and see how far you get...

 

[ducksausage]

that article doesnt say EQ employees. SOE employees like 200 people full time for GM work between EQ/EQ2/SWG/AoC/Other Games. They are just going towards more guides less GMs, guides cost 30$ a month(2 free accounts) and they get like 20 hours a week out of them.

Now thats slave labor!

 

[DemonH2]

Always wondered how they get around Wage & Hour laws using guides. I mean try to use "volunteers" to run a hamburg stand and see how far you get...

A long way actually. At least in South Carolina you can classify people as volunteers and have em work 40 hours a week. I think though there is a maximum ration. I think its like 1 volunteer to 5 employees or something.

 

[kirbanmanaburn]

A long way actually. At least in South Carolina you can classify people as volunteers and have em work 40 hours a week. I think though there is a maximum ration. I think its like 1 volunteer to 5 employees or something.

I'm guessing part of it means no real money can change hands. You can give someone a free EQ account, or the hamburger stand can give their volunteers free burgers, but the moment you start paying them a 'stipend' or rewarding them with other employee-type perks, you get into a grey area.

 

[JimJohnson]

they dont even actually give them the account. Since we never even own the ones we have. We just rent a license agreement month by month.