Microsoft has recently laid off manpower in its Xbox game department on a large scale, and its Bethesda has also become the hardest hit area, causing dissatisfaction among many developers. Today, the Bethesda Game Studios union officially announced that it will launch multiple rallies and protests next week, asking the company to face the impact of this wave of layoffs and express strong dissatisfaction to management.
Don’t treat layoffs as a “foregone conclusion”!
The Bethesda Game Studios union stated that the company hopes that employees will silently accept the results of layoffs, but the union does not intend to compromise on this. Therefore, it will hold rallies in many places in the United States, hoping to draw more attention to the large-scale layoffs that have occurred repeatedly in the game industry in recent years, and at the same time speak out for the affected employees.
This wave of layoffs is part of Microsoft’s recent Xbox business restructuring. In addition to Bethesda, multiple teams under ZeniMax are also affected. The labor union has criticized the company a few days ago that the company laid off programmers, artists, designers and testers, while the real management was almost unscathed. This also made many employees question, can this really improve the company’s problems?
Players are waiting for new games, but developers are busy keeping their jobs.
In recent years, news of layoffs in the game industry has almost never stopped. Now even Bethesda, which is developing “The Elder Scrolls VI (The Elder Scrolls VI)”, is deeply involved in it, which has also made many players worry about whether it will affect the progress of future works. For players, they are looking forward to new games; but for many developers, perhaps the more important thing now is to keep their jobs first.