I dunno about their other locations, but if they're trying to recruit top tier talent to their LA studio it isn't going to be easy. They're probably still in the phase Riot was in for years where the only people they hired were people who were big fans, except Riot had a popular game and made money, so they could slightly get away with being selective in picking who drink the Kool Aid.
Much like they're running out of people who want to spend money on the game, they're probably running out of people who want to work on the game. Like ignoring all the ridiculous shit about them, very people in general want to work on MMOs. Because MMOs are hard, take forever, and have a huge failure rate. It's one thing to spend 5 years working on God of War, its another thing to spend 5 years working on some crappy MMO that like 10k people play before it folds.
Maybe they can poach some people from Daybreak if those rumors about them having money problems because of their sketchy Russian Investors or whatever are real.
