Curt Schilling Fires Entire Staff At 38 Studios

redletterdave writes "On Thursday, former Boston Red Sox pitcher and tech entrepreneur Curt Schilling fired his entire staff at 38 Studios, his Rhode Island-based video game company, leaving more than 300 employees without jobs because the company couldn't repay its debt to the state. 38 Studios failed to pay Rhode Island's economic development agency $1.1 million, which was due last week, and also failed to meet payroll for its staff in both its Providence office and its Maryland subsidiary, Big Huge Games." The company's recent action RPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, sold 1.2 million copies — which would have been great if they hadn't needed to sell 3 million to break even. An article at Massively goes through some of the lessons the video game industry needs to learn from this situation.

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Re:Needed to sell 3M copies to break even?

[mr1911]

We know you are there. We just don't care.

Re:Needed to sell 3M copies to break even?

[Anonymous Coward]

We know you are there. We just don't care.

And they should be thankful for that. When it comes to foreign countries, we've only got two modes: Apathy and Ass-kicking.

You don't like being ignored? Ok, how about we teach you to know your place? It's ass kicking time.

War of 1812, Vietnam war, Bay of Pigs... shall I continue?

Those all fall under apathy.

That sucks and all ...

[WankersRevenge]

but on the positive side, it looks like they're hiring! ;)

In light of recent events, I'd advise the site developer to update that page but I'm guessing he or she was just fired :/

I can tell you part of it:

[RMingin]

I saw Amalur advertised. It looked interesting. I checked Steam, it was 60$. I mentally filed it under "maybe someday if there's a sale". Sale didn't happen before developer tanked.

Maybe now it'll go on sale?