TLDR: Riot is downscaling. The severance package is great but it’s another round of layoffs in the industry.
This will also majorly affect Legends of Runeterra. They’re putting the game on life support it seems, and will focus on the PvE mode.
They’re also shutting down Riot Forge, their collaboration with other studios to make smaller games with their IP.
https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-games-1828165483
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/12/27/riot-discrimination-100-million-settlement/
When your culture of sexism results in a class action lawsuit from former and current employees, and you pay out to the tune of 100 million and keep all the same executives who were accused of harassment and discrimination, and you have to have a third party watch over your company for years to make sure you’re not still doing this stuff: you’re a trash company.
I couldn’t roll my eyes any harder. That’s literally all it is.
Then I’ll amend and say yeah that’s trash - but trash or not, I’ll still say it’s a very decent severance package… But still trash company, agree.