In the studio Virtuos, Famous for work on Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, large dismissals began. According to the journalist Gauthier Andres (Gauthier Andres), about 300 employees will fall under the reduction, which is 7 % of the total state of the company. Dismissal will affect offices in the USA, Europe, Asia, including three branches in France. Teams in China were the first to hit the first to blow.
The cause is called the accumulated internal stress, especially after creating Oblivion Remastered. According to Andres, The studio “overspended the budget for the sake of quality”, while working under a contract without royalties, which meant the absence of bonuses even with the commercial success of Title. As a result, the teams were under serious pressure for the sake of a demonstration project, whose payback remains in doubt.
After completing the work on the remaster, the leadership froze an increase in salaries and cut off bonuses. This caused excitement among employees and questions about the future fate of the studio. Against the background of news about dismissal in Virtuos Lyon a strike began against abbreviations and for maintaining the office.
It is separately noted that the company actively introduces generative AI. One of the sources said that in just a year in the studio they went from rare presentations to compulsory basic training on AI for all employees.
Virtuos has not yet given an official comment on the situation.
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I don’t remember where I heard the phrase, but it is perfect
"In our time, even a successful game does not protect against dismissal"
The game has failed – reduction and dismissal
The game was a success – reduction and dismissal
Klaaaaaaahass. Another day, a couple more hundred fired people
It turned out that they were just a huge support studio and there are about 4 thousand workers 0__0.
Did the case, walk on the labor exchange boldly
How sad and getting.
Not a day without a http://quatrocasinoonline.co.uk/ reminder that if you hate game CEO and all sorts of effective managers, you always hate them enough.
It seems to be a little (in general), but there is a nuance
The studio “overspended the budget for the sake of quality”, while working under a contract without royalties, which meant the absence of bonuses even with the commercial success of Title
Why do such stupid transactions agree, and why do ordinary hard workers suffer, as always, and not geniuses from management, which climb into such incomprehensible game?
By the way about geniuses from management.
Yes. Because a defective manager does not perceive his subordinates as a creative team, and does not understand his [team] synergy. Does not understand that the accumulated experience does not arise in 1 month and is often tied to a particular company to its processes.
The game is made? We no longer need 200 artists, programmers and testers. For the preaccen to the next game, there are enough 20 people, the rest – pour nafig.
Days without news about reduction in game studios: 0.
You tried to sarcasm, I showed a fresh example that sarcasm for some is a reality for others. And that there are self-bosses who can behave as you like.
I’m talking about the fact that when there is news about the dismissal of employees, no one wonders why they are fired. Why immediately guilty are the top management? But why then do not praise them for organizing jobs in the past?
And remember, there was such a Tango Gameworks studio? Well, which released the game Hi-Fi Rush, which collected a bunch of awards and positive reviews, and all this at all without any advertising? And remember how this studio was closed literally under the words of one of the Xbox top managers “We need such small but“ prestigious ”games like Hi-Fi Rush? Well, let’s praise Phil for organizing jobs in the past!
First, far from a couple. Secondly, show where I "condemn everyone at all".
Probably exactly so much to write a prize for yourself, and to fire linear employees to laugh. After all, this is how business works. (sarcasm)
Still on farting in the face, sexual harassment, attachment to the chair and setting fire to beards, according to the investigation against the anniversary.
I worked in different companies, small businesses and federal networks. And anywhere the employees were not fired simply because of the whip of the leadership. It is always either a matter of non-competence of the dismissed, or because of a hole in the budget.
Well, then you are lucky because I also worked in various interesting places, and saw a wide variety of reasons for dismissal. Starting with that very well -deserved “incompetence”, continuing the arrival of the new director with his team, and ending with the same blessed (or even say, moron), when the half -flowing hears OR “so that it is, ***, tomorrow *****”.
You at least a couple of lines of explanation leave why you are so worried about the dismissed and what are you ready to do for them.
Well, let’s leave a couple of lines. Of course, we do not know who, on what conditions, signed the contracts (although here we already know that the dude worked for the ZP, without royalties), their competence, etc.D. But at the same time, we have seen more than once or twice the frank hypocrisy of the bosses of large gaming studios, who reduce workers for unsatisfactory sales indicators with one hand, and on the other, at the same moment they write out millions of bonuses to themselves. And if they left the post, then with such golden parachutes that the developer dismissed to him with such money could not steam a year or two with the search for work.
Everyone at once see a crowd of sufferer, but no one will offer an option what to make a company who simply has no money left. Keep people for a couple of months, and then close and leave everyone at all?
Oh-vay, there was no money left right at all? And no one else will give budgets after successful sales of the Paul remaster?
Your deeds, flying pasta monster are wonderful. Remaster, at least crooked, oblique and lazy, but it was perfectly sold. What?
Oh … it turns out that a person can establish a studio, do something and do not care about everyone? But it is worth firing someone to immediately write down in villains because they are all like that? You don’t even need to ask the question with what it is connected?
Moor did his job.
Agree. There are different situations, and even in the same situations you can behave differently.
But in the vast majority of situations, the behavior is very bastard: while you bring money to the owner – we are one family, when you do not bring money here and now – have a good.
If we talk about the news, then I doubt the "humanity" of their solution. If they have a state of 4000, then they could scatter 300 people by teams.
It is clear that there may be nuances with weekends, contracts, etc.p., But, based on personal experience and other news, I will use the "presumption of guilt".
The text says, the studio is neither warm nor cold from the sales of the remaster, she will not get a penny from them – and in the manufacturing process hesed greatly.
I believe Todd raised the question with an edge – either like this, or let’s go from here, others will be found. They chose the only possible option, hoping to save – but it didn’t work … You can bargain for your game, but here they were just hired as temporary workers.
Well, I want to eat something. The reductions are going on everywhere and not the first year, so you are not particularly out of place and you will be glad to work even on such conditions.
