City of Heroes: Cryptic Studios: Now Hiring

Stradden

MMORPG development company, Cryptic Studios has announced that they are holding open tryouts for employment. With the successful City of Heroes / Villains franchise as a base, Cryptic is also developing new games, both console and PC:

 

CRYPTIC STUDIOS ANNOUNCES OPEN TRYOUTS FOR NEW HIRES

INDEPENDENT DEVELOPER SEEKS TALENTED HEROES FOR NEW MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER GAMES

LOS GATOS, CA - July 26, 2006 - Cryptic Studios, Inc., an independent developer of massively multiplayer online games for the PC and next generation consoles, announced today that the company is actively searching for new talent to join their development team.

"We're looking for the best, whether you are a proven industry veteran or a new college grad who wants to break into the business," said Michael Lewis,President of Cryptic Studios. "If you want to work on cutting-edge technology and designs centered around making games easy to build and fun to play, then this is place for you. You won't be surprised to know we're looking for top-notch programmers and artists, but you might be surprised to find we're also interested in engineering, economics, linguistics and philosophy majors."

With projects in the works on console and PC platforms, Cryptic has partnered with top publishers and is planning to announce multiple new massively multiplayer titles later this year. The company is also fiercely dedicated to supporting their hit flagship titles, "City of Heroes(R)" and "City of Villains(TM)," which have a combined revenue of over $30M per year.

The studio, which is expanding its business to incorporate customer service and network operations, encourages applicants to learn more about employment opportunities by visiting their website (www.crypticstudios.com). Excellent benefits, planned career growth and a balanced professional and personal life are core elements of Cryptic's culture.

Visit the Cryptic Studios website, here.

NameWasTaken

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Originally posted by Stradden


The studio, which is expanding its business to incorporate customer service and network operations, encourages applicants to learn more about employment opportunities by visiting their website (www.crypticstudios.com).

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Customer service? Network Operations?

Weren't these provided by NC Soft?

Looks like a certain software house is about to get dumped by their publisher!

hehenep

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Customer service? Network Operations?

Weren't these provided by NC Soft?

Looks like a certain software house is about to get dumped by their publisher!

Which would really be rather silly.  Since ... you know, they're still making NCSoft money.

 It's entirely possible that they're going with a different publisher for their other games, or that they're going to provide their own CS and the like for them, since NCSoft's apparently become a trifle gun-shy with the lackluster performance of Auto Assault.

Blurr

Maybe NCSoft is trying to cut costs, and in order to help them out, Cryptic is hiring it's own support staff to take some of the burden off of NC.

grimboj

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Originally posted by NameWasTaken

Network Operations? To handle the pre cancellation server merges as to 'appear' to make an effort to save the game.


Customer service? To handle the complaints when the game gets cancelled.

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