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The purchase of Activision Blizzard meant adding a large infrastructure, and after that, the readjustments have been constant. Although future plans involve new projects, where Starcraft has taken center stage this week, Blizzard resorts to cuts and confirms new layoffs for future weeks. Although significant cuts have already been made in the past, andThe Employment Development Department would have received the request to lay off almost 400 employees.
These would be distributed among the game divisions moffices located in Santa Monica and Irvineas part of the necessary readjustment that they have to assume when becoming part of the infrastructure of Microsoft's gaming division.
Blizzard resorts to cuts and confirms new layoffs, adding 400 jobs from various divisions
However, Delay Simmons, a spokesperson for Activision Blizzard, commented that he could not share additional details about the affected computers and their locations. But all this would be nothing more than another step in the agreement reached some time ago to lay off around 1,900 workers in the different divisions of Microsoft Gaming, Activision Blizzard, Xbox and ZeniMax. In principle, there will not be a great impact on the planned plans, although it may affect the arrival of new projects. The cuts, which seem to be a necessary measure to survive these days, knowing that the gigantic infrastructure that Microsoft now manages, also has a huge number of projects pending steps forward.
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Although this type of news is not pleasant, it is still a reality in an industry in need of making strong investments that can only be achieved by raising money from the sale of games. And it seems that this balance has been broken after the boom that the pandemic period represented, which could not be maintained subsequently. The growth of communities, from consoles to Steam, which continues to break records, still needs to exploit a new goose that lays the golden eggs. You just have to find it.