After a plan for hundreds of layoffs in Maryland at Microsoft-owned ZeniMax and Bethesda Game Studios (BGS) was announced in early July, video game developers and union members rallied in Rockville to demand their positions be restored. A total of 166 Montgomery County jobs and 213 in Baltimore will be eliminated in September.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen to the work we were doing,” said Stephanie Zachariadis, who worked as a BGS game writer and designer for five years and was recently told her job was cut. She said she was working on an unreleased game “that a lot of people were pretty excited about.”
Sad to see. Big fan of fallout. Elder scrolls is a major franchise. I am shocked to read this to be honest.
Elder Scrolls VI is years behind schedule and the reporting on it has been pretty bleak.
Labor casualties due to rise of development costs?
Maybe. Maybe they’re starting to cut their losses on a product that will have disappointing earnings.
I think the same. Development until now should had been a mess and they don’t trust it as a good profitable product.
Elder Scrolls fans have to wait more for it or receive a unfinished game as bethesda always releases bug games
MSFT bought up all the studio and them forced them to not develop a single good game from the top franchises they bought. Incomprehensible business strategy. Incomprehensible for gamers. Incomprehensible for devs. Incomprehensible for shareholders. I did not even know it was possible for something being so badly managed.