Xbox Layoffs Leave Staff Grieving Amid Devastating Fallout: Report | 📲 LatestLY
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Xbox Layoffs Leave Staff Grieving Amid Devastating Fallout: Report | 📲 LatestLY
Microsoft's gaming division is cutting 3,200 jobs as part of an Xbox restructuring initiative, with layoffs affecting studios including Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios and id Software. Employees have described abrupt virtual termination meetings, while unions are seeking improved severance and support. Developers warn the cuts could lead to project delays. 📲 Xbox Layoffs Leave Staff Grieving Amid Devastating Fallout: Report.
Bethesda Game Studios, who survived the last wave of Microsoft cuts, fear that future studio games will no longer be able to achieve the quality of the best game series of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. According to the union representatives, the company has lost too many experienced professionals who cannot be replaced quickly by new employees.
"You can’t just throw new people at that problem": Bethesda devs doubt future Elder Scrolls and Fallout games will have the same "quality level", after losing seasoned staff to Xbox cuts
Unionised Bethesda Games Studios staff embroiled in Microsoft's latest round of mass layoffs have expressed further doubts about the company's ability to create games at the "quality level" of the very bestest Elder Scrolls and Fallout projects, as they continue to haggle with Microsoft over severance terms.
A former Bethesda employee cries out in anguish: "I was fired in just two minutes."
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