Category: Firefall News

Firefall has had a rough lifetime that is sadly coming to a close on Friday, July 7th. Redfall staffers updated the official site with a brief notice to the remaining playerbase. For fans who will mourn the end of the Firefall online era there is still good news as a mobile version is in the works.

The Firefall site has suddenly gone dark, perhaps indicating that the game itself has shut down. Players on Reddit are claiming that they game is still functioning with a few players in it. While perhaps not yet completely gone, the site’s demise does not bode well for the longevity of the game.

Late yesterday afternoon, Reddit user reecej101 reported on the Firefall subReddit that a major round of layoffs had gone down at Red 5, development studio behind the game. A few posts later, user bdsmchs, reportedly a former employee with Red 5, confirmed that layoffs had occurred, reiterated on Community Manager FadedPez’s Twitter account.

In a short post on the Firefall site players and fans have been informed that the team has plans to bring the game both to mobile devices and PlayStation 4. The post also indicates that there are further plans for Firefall, but that the current focus is the deployment to mobile devices and PS4.

Red 5 Studios has revealed the contents of the next FireFall update that is scheduled to hit live servers on January 20th. There is a massive number of changes and new content coming to the game.

In unsurprising news after earlier reports of financial difficulties, Red 5 Studios has sent word that it is undergoing “strategic reorganization.

To celebrate the launch of Firefall in China, The9 CEO Zhu Jun is gifting players “red packets”, up to ten million of them, contents of which remains unknown though it is not out of the realm of possibility that real world cash will be included.

VentureBeat.com has obtained a statement from Red 5 that says that all employees have been paid what they are owed. The statement does not indicate if they were paid on the date expected j(December 24th) or, as we reported this morning, earlier today. Regardless, it is good to hear that employees have been paid.

Unnamed Red 5 sources are claiming that a Facebook page, ostensibly used to help current and former company employees find new jobs, is actually being used to spy on employees in order to take legal action for revealing information about last week’s missed payroll and the potential closure of the studio and Firefall.

According to a Reddit post and an anonymous tipster, Firefall developer Red 5 Studios has failed to make its latest payroll deadline. According to information we’ve been sent, the current CEO’s share of the company is worth approximately $45M (via 13D disclosure recently filed) but let employees know shortly after that the company would not be able to meet its payroll obligation.