| G2ThaUNiT said: Looks like a third of id Software is getting laid off and half of the ESO team. |
Not too surprised, id was oversized for the way that Doom: The Dark Ages performed, they have like 350 devs but apparently almost all of them were on Doom: The Dark Ages until it released, barely any on Quake reboot which was in preproduction. The Dark Ages did have 3m players in the first week which was a record for the franchise, but analysts estimated that only 800k of those 3m were sales, the other 2.2m day one Gamepass players, in terms of sales it is estimated to have sold less than half as much as Doom Eternal in 2020 sold at launch.
As for ESO, it's just not maintaining enough players at this point to justify almost 500 devs all on ESO expansions since Kestrel was cancelled about a year ago. ESO has fallen to #149 on Xbox's most played list and #173 on Steam. Almost 500 devs entirely on a game with something like 25k daily active players across all platforms, is just way too many.
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