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Up to 32 labor were affected by nan studio’s caller decision.
Layoffs successful the video crippled industry just support coming. In a station connected societal media, ZA/UM Studio, the developer and patient of Disco Elysium and much recently, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, announced that it "served redundancy aliases at-risk notices impacting up to 32 of our colleagues crossed each departments astatine ZA/UM Studio."
The news of nan layoffs comes only a fewer months aft nan studio's latest crippled was released successful May. ZA/UM Studio attributed nan layoffs to nan anemic "commercial performance" of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, which "has not enabled america to prolong a workplace of our existent size." According to SteamDB, nan espionage RPG hit an all-time highest of 3,177 players astir nan clip of its release, but has steadily declined since.
For diehard Disco Elysium fans, nan news of layoffs whitethorn not travel arsenic a full surprise. After nan occurrence of nan narrative-heavy RPG successful 2019, ZA/UM Studio went done a series of conflicts including the firing of nan game's halfway team, a suit involving intelligence spot theft and accusations of a dispute activity situation for women. Former devs pinch ZA/UM Studio subsequently made their ain workplace called Longdue, which is besides moving connected a "narrative-first" game. As for nan latest layoffs, ZA/UM Studio said it's still "continued to consult and activity pinch representatives of nan ZA/UM Workers' Alliance."
