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Martin Septim: "The average dev who was let go was not part of the "14 layers of management", but the backbone of the studio, doing the core work on games we all love. Microsoft's C-suite are the ones who's decisions lead the company to ruin, and throw the crew overboard to make the ship lighter, instead of cutting their own bloated salaries, when they are already so rich as to not need money ever again." Leave your comments to Microsoft about the layoffs in the feedback portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/69b8ec0b-7479-f111-9b47-6045bdbd0989

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Following the layoffs, an internal email at Bethesda about the future of the company reached IGN. The focus appears to be on rapidly increasing the pace of the production of its star franchises, mainly Elder Scrolls and Fallout. IGN also speculates that Obsidian and id Software may be pushed towards supporting the release of games in those franchises.

Similar situation for id Software. Their recent games underperformed and all their software developers got laid off (amongst others). Kinda impossible to *make* games with no software devs. Support work seems like the only future....

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