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Zippy6 said:

Ryuu96 said:

It's hard to remain positive about this industry lately, so many awesome games we should be excited about but it's just constant layoffs, on the people making those games, I should be happy playing Yakuza but now I'm disgusted once again by this industry.

Wonder how many of the 1,900 is ABK and what areas are being cut.

The article says it's primarily Activision affected but XGS and Zenimax are also effected. Google tells me Activision had around 9.2k employees in 2019, so if 1,000 of those 1,900 employee's are Activision that's over 10% of Actvision gone. Acquisitions often result in things like this but pretty terrible for those employees and I bet they're wishing MS didn't acquire the company they work for now.

That 9.2k is a bit outdated, ABK was way over 10k after the acquisition, the memo says MS Gaming has 22,000 employees, I think ABK is around 12-13k employees nowadays so XGS + Zenimax would make up another 10k combined. We've always been told that ABK was larger than XGS + Zenimax combined.

And Idk about that, as awful as it is, layoffs are happening across the entire industry, nobody is safe and Activision-Blizzard would have laid off even if they hadn't been acquired. It's the industry as a whole now, it fucking sucks, I don't know why anyone would want to jump into this industry right now. Toxicity, layoffs, crunch, high burn rate, musical chairs with jobs.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 25 January 2024