According to president Mike Capps, the employees had contacted Epic about opening a new studio.
”It’ll take a while to find space, set up desks and PCs, purchase sufficient Nerf weaponry and Dr. Pepper, etc,” Capp acknowledged in his blog, ”But some of these folks have been going too long without a paycheck to wait for that. So, as soon as we can, we’re going to try to get people working down here at Epic headquarters in Cary, NC as contractors.”
Capps went on to say, ”There’s a million things to work out. How many of the team can we hire? What will it be called? What will they be working on? We don’t know all the answers yet. Please give us some time to figure it out; we hope to have more to share soon.”
”The way we see it,” he concluded, ”there’s been a big storm in Baltimore, and we’re taking in a few of the refugees - as are the awesome folks at Zynga East, Zenimax Online, and other southeastern studios. Epic’s in a situation where we can do this, and it very clearly fits with our company values, so we’re going to give it a whirl.”
38 Studios and Big Huge Games suffered 100% layoffs last week.
