Red 5 Studios is de developer van de free-to-play-shooter Firefall. De laatste tijd heeft de developer flink wat nieuwe werknemers aan kunnen nemen dankzij ontslagen bij concurrenten als 38 Studios en Bioware. Hierdoor is de studio uitgegroeid van zestig medewerkers naar bijna honderd.

“About 80 percent or 90 percent of the people we’ve added in the past few months have been from 38 and Bioware. Two months ago we had a staff of 60, and now we’re at just over 100. We needed to increase our ability to create content. We’re treading the edge of the knife to some extent. But the people we’ve added – we’re pretty careful about. We’ve probably spent a pure month on recruiting, which hurt production. We ended up having to crunch harder than we ever have to get this patch done. We’ve never really crunched at Red 5, but this last month has been an absolutely a true crunch.”

Red 5 geeft aan dat de ontslagen geen goede zaak zijn voor de industrie maar de één zijn dood is de ander zijn brood. Qua timing kwam het Red 5 goed uit, want ze hadden dringend nieuwe mensen nodig. “The timing of 38 studios and Star Wars dumping all their staff at the same time is really good for us. We’ve found some incredibly talented people who are really happy. It’s allowed us to build up the team quickly.”