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Eidos Montreal lay off 75 workers in further cuts to the Deus Ex studio (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days 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