According to real-time news from foreign media today (25th), Microsoft (Microsoft) will lay off approximately 1,900 Xbox and Activision Blizzard King employees this week, accounting for 8% of Microsoft’s gaming department. Activision Blizzard has not officially announced The published survival game was canceled.
Reported by technology media The VergeQuoting an internal memo from Microsoft Game CEO Phil Spencer, it has been more than three months since the Activision, Blizzard Entertainment and King teams joined Microsoft. In order to ensure that the overall business continues to grow, the company’s senior management is committed to achieving business strategies and execution plans. consensus and work together to set priorities, identify areas of overlap, and consolidate the best development opportunities.
“But in the process, we made a painful decision to eliminate approximately 1,900 positions from our team of 22,000 people.” It is said that this wave of layoffs also affected some ZeniMax employees.
Phil Spencer said that this was a decision made by Microsoft’s gaming leadership team after careful consideration. He thanked these former employees and promised to fully support them during this transition period and provide “severance pay consistent with local employment laws.”
In addition to layoffs, Blizzard Entertainment President Mike Ybarra, who has 20 years of Xbox experience and has experienced three generations of Xbox consoles, will also leave.
Matt Booty, president of Microsoft game content and studios, said in an internal memo, “As many people know, Mike has worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years. Now as president of Blizzard, he has witnessed the complete process of the company’s acquisition and decided to leave the company.”
Microsoft plans to appoint a new Blizzard Entertainment president next week, and Blizzard chief design Allen Adham has also resigned. Matt Booty described, “As one of the founders of Blizzard, Allen has had a profound influence on all the company’s games, and he plans to continue to do so in the future.” Mentoring young game designers.”
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On the other hand, Blizzard Entertainment publicly recruited people in January 2022 and revealed that it was developing an unofficial survival game. However, The Verge reported thatThe game fell by the wayside with massive layoffs.
Matt Booty explained in an internal letter that the layoffs affected Blizzard’s internal development team, shared services and corporate functional departments. “Blizzard will end the development of its survival game and transfer some of the people on the project to several Blizzard projects in the early stages of development. , promising new projects.”
Although Blizzard has not disclosed the details and name of the survival game so far, as the company’s long-lost new IP, it attracted the attention of the entire gaming circle when the news came out. However, layoffs in the gaming industry continued in 2023, and Microsoft made drastic changes after successfully acquiring Activision Blizzard King. After rectifying the organization, the game dominated by the “previous dynasty” will inevitably abort.
2024-01-25 16:04:54
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