Layoffs At ArenaNet – What’

ArenaNet, the developer of Guild Wars 2, has staff layoffs. The reason for this seems to be the decline in revenues and the delay of new projects.

How many employees will be dismissed? Officially, there are currently no figures on how many employees should be dismissed. However, according to Kotaku, it should be a larger number.

Why are employees dismissed? As a reason for the layoffs Songyee Yoon, the CEO of the Korean publisher NCSoft, not only called the decline in revenue from last year.

Most of all, NCSoft seems dissatisfied with new ArenaNet projects. In addition to Guild Wars 2, at least one mobile game was working in the background. There were apparently delays.

In addition, NCSoft calls higher costs in the West as a reason to restructure the NCWest area. In addition to Guild Wars Blade & Soul, Aion: Legions of War and Lineage II are sold there for the Western market. Previously, Wildstar was already discontinued last year.

Is Guild Wars 2 affected by the layoffs?

Which developers are dismissed exactly is not clear so far. However, ArenaNet volunteered to speak in its own forum.

ArenaNet retains the planned course, where they confirmed the work on the Living World Season 4 and the following season 5. Also, further major updates for the game are planned.

In a statement to Gamesindustry, ArenaNet also said that the layoffs have no impact on Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 services.

NCSoft is getting more involved, but it’s clear that NCSoft will resume publishing Guild Wars 2 and bring companies closer together again. ArenaNet is a subsidiary of NCSoft but has had a lot of freedom in its decisions lately.

Is Guild Wars 2 already on a low profile? On Twitter also reported the ex-employee Jessica Price to speak. This was dismissed on Twitter last year following a sexism debate and was not so good after talking to her old employer.

For them, the news about the layoffs comes as no surprise. She talks about two new projects besides Guild Wars, which already cost a lot of developer time.

So gradually, Guild Wars 2 staff members are said to have been withdrawn, while others should appear to the outside world to continue as usual.

In reality, the teams were already very small.

Are the redundancies surprising? Particularly tragic about the situation is that ArenaNet had responded to the dismissals at Blizzard. So you offered these jobs in your own team.

Probably no one knew at this time that soon even jobs at ArenaNet will be canceled.

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