75 people have been let go by Eidos-Montreal. The Deus Ex and Tomb Raider studio laid off the workers due to a lack of "capacity", they said.
  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    23 hours ago

    Fuck Embracer.

    Eidos Montreal was a very good studio even recently, just look at Guardians of the Galaxy.

    Then they cancelled their Deus Ex game, laid off 100 people, and 75 more. The studio has only 35 employees left, basically dead.

    How the hell are they supposed to make game this way? Ehy would you buy a studio to kill it?

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      20 hours ago

      Embracer bet it all on a multi-billion dollar deal with a Saudi investment company that fell apart at the last minute due to Embracer adding more and more demands. This deal failing also caused their stock price to tumble. They’ve been cutting everything, everywhere ever since to get out of debt.

      I wish they’d do so by selling their studios whole instead of chopping them apart and leaving them hollow shells of themselves. I can only think of three major sales as opposed to the dozens of studio closures and nearly a hundred projects they’ve canceled.

      • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        Thanks, I didn’t know this. Yes, they should have sold some studios, I bet EA or some big publishers would have been happy to buy one or two. Downsizing like this, they kill any future chance for revenue growth, very stupid move

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    19·
    1 day ago

    Maaaan.

    Embracer was doing so well, just letting good studios do their thing.

    Then they just completely shat the bed financially, bought up orders of magnitude more than they could afford, and got surprised when they had to sleep in it when money they didn’t have, failed to materialize.

    I want more Deus Ex so bad.