Firesprite Reviews

- There is a clear lack of leadership, no one knows or communicates the short or long term plan, there is a sense of that the projects do not have an identity or direction (dev hell). - Projects are suffering because of the lack of direction and no one is taking ownership on how to change this, many in leadership don't even see the issue with running around in circles. - The studio uses bad development practices, there is always talks about "fixing the process" but nothing gets done, the last shipped project was a nightmare to work with, and the studio is making the same mistakes again - Morale is really low because nothing changes, first time I ever saw people leave before the end of probation, so they don't have to stay the notice period

- Utterly blighted by toxic leaders and general mismanagement I could write an essay about how this happened, but it boils down to one thing - the studio feels like it's in a death spiral of its own making. The two main guys at the top have had a Eurogamer article written on their funny business which didn't cover half of it really, and have no business running a studio and have mismanaged it into the ground. The redundancies are one thing but honestly there was a crazy amount of attrition, brain-drain and rock-bottom morale even beforehand. - Nothing changes. A follow on from the above really. The devs know what the issues are. We know what the solutions are. We've had the retros - lots of them. But we can't make the people with the power to actually change things at the highest level listen. And so nothing changes, leading to more wasted time, effort, and talent. - Gutted by redundancies And hard to see a way back from it. We'll see if the studio even exists in another 2 years time...