Industry and Video game layoff thread |OT| Any future layoff info please place in here.
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It already leaked that they were asking studios to make cuts in the insomniac leak. It just hasnt been Announced yet
There is a reason all those publishers were looking to be bought. The owners knew it was time to jump ship, now Phil Spencer of all people, a guy that never managed to get good output out of their gaming division is in charge of turning all those massive publishers around.
Well, since they don't even announce games anymore they might as well shut down most of their studios.
Insomniac leak is from very old presentation... it is possible the layoffs already happened before the FY23.
When Sony announced the Bungie acquisition, Bungie had "more than 900" people. They kept growing until Bungie fired around 100 people, going down from around 1200 to 1100. After that they continued growing and now are around 1500 people.
No, in that mail an Insomniac employee took notes of a meeting where they were going to move Insomniac employees (+support studios) that were now working -or were planned to work "soon"- in games to be released beyond 2030 to projects to be released before 2028, specially because in that meeting they were agreeing to greenlight the development of a new Marvel small spinoff game (ended being Venom) that would be released 2027.
But some people who saw that message didn't get it or took a couple sentences out of context and thought they were talking about layoff when isn't the case. Becaause the mail was years old and layoffs never happened. All their studios kept growing.
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I'm a little confused on the Blizzard aspect of this. Internally they have five teams, dedicated to Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Overwatch and Hearthstone respectively. Was this a sixth team that got cut or what? Were people aware that this survival game was under development? Thats probably gonna be a Scalebound/Sonic Xtreme/P.T. level white whale for some of the big fans.
Hack files were from 2020, cause of the xbots runing with ratchet rift apart not selling 8 million, espite by 2022 it made 145 million.
They won't, SIE is having record revenues and profit.
It was a separate team from these ones. Blizzard also has more teams, like for mobile gaming, or multiple ones for Warcraft.
November 2023 was when the leaked docs were released. But these docs were from 2019, 2022 and a few from early 2023, but mostly 2020.
BIG Ooof moment. Wonder how ResetERA's going to try censoring or downplay this news.
How many of these are from the Xbox side in particular, and from what areas (software, hardware etc.), vs. how many are from the other branches of Microsoft Gaming. Would give a clue as to the direction things are really going in over there.
How many of these are from the Xbox side in particular, and from what areas (software, hardware etc.), vs. how many are from the other branches of Microsoft Gaming. Would give a clue as to the direction things are really going in over there.
10 years ago I was asking the same question. For as bad as he is at everything else he seems to be great at passing the blame to others and surviving in the corporate structure (probably what explains how he got so far while doing such a poor job).
Yes we were aware of that survival game, it was in development for 6 years. The xbots were cheering for it because they thought it would be Xbox exclusive. Jez made many posts about it during the acquisition to rally the troops.
