Marvel Rivals is easily one of the most popular games this year, drawing hundreds of thousands of players on Steam alone. And yet it’s developer NetEase has laid off a team who worked on the game out of its Seattle-based studio.
Game director Thaddeus Sasser wrote a post on LinkedIn about the layoffs, which specifically mention level designer Garry McGee as one of the affected developers, and level designer Jack Burrows corroborated the news with his own post.
“This is such a weird industry,” Sasser wrote, “My stellar, talented team just helped deliver an incredibly successful new franchise in Marvel Rivals for NetEase Games […] and were just laid off!”
According to Sasser, the team focused on “coming up with new level design mechanics, gameplay mechanics, and…