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sledgehammers for bob
Would you say these studios were grabbed by the ghoulies?Microsoft is both ghoulish and incompetent when it comes to video games.
If more people had been grabbed by the ghoulies we wouldn't be in this mess!Would you say these studios were grabbed by the ghoulies?
More info is coming out about Toys for Bob. They laid off 36 employees and then went full remote (their own decision) after their lease for their office was up. Some of this new info comes from Jez Corden, who is a reliable source. Can we get the name of the thread changed to to include an update? Most people haven't seen the update comments in this thread and I wouldn't be surprised if some think that Toys for Bob is just completely dead now.
I feel like that logo image featuring Crash is misleading, though.Still obviously not ideal, especially with the 36 layoffs, but I’m glad the studio is still active at least.
I believe the drastic cut back in staff is a combination of layoffs and leaving in protest/just not wanting to work on Call of Duty after Crash 4. When it was announced TFB was going to be working on CoD, there were a few people that left on their own accord.50 people seems like a pretty small number if they were to work on more "high budget" 3D platformers, where they also around 80 when they made Crash Bandicoot 4 or did the team downsize once that project was finished ?
Still better outcome to do WFH than being let go overall but I can't imagine morale would be high while also being isolated from the rest of your coworkers.