I remember hearing that Harmonix was also acquired by Epic Games and there was a lot of speculation of a collaboration to reboot Rock Band using the Bandcamp library.
One of the lead developers at Harmonix was asked about this on Reddit and they only replied with an emphatic “No.”
Seeing this now brings the bigger picture into focus.
Wasn’t this pretty recent? Did they buy the company just to lay people off??
That’s often how it works. Duplicate middle management particularly is usually less needed after a merger.
Buying and “streamlining” is a pretty common practice, yeah.
EpicSongtradr bought them for the tech and userbase, not for their employees.The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/
I’d forgotten who was selling to who, thanks.
I remember hearing that Harmonix was also acquired by Epic Games and there was a lot of speculation of a collaboration to reboot Rock Band using the Bandcamp library.
One of the lead developers at Harmonix was asked about this on Reddit and they only replied with an emphatic “No.”
Seeing this now brings the bigger picture into focus.