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The Elder Scrolls Online Developer ZeniMax Lays Off 300 Employees

MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196
edited December 2015 in Elder Scrolls Online

 ZeniMax Online Studios, The Elder Scrolls Online developer, has laid off 300 employees, according toConnacht Tribune.

All of the employees were laid off at the Galway, Ireland studio. While the development team in Hunt Valley, Maryland remains unaffected.

The Galway-based studio has essentially shut down as only five or six employees remain. The studio opened up just four years ago.

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/262589/the-elder-scrolls-online-developer-zenimax-lays-off-300-employees/



Elder Scrolls Online Developers Lay Off 300 Employees A Week Before Christmas

http://xmmorpg.com/news/elder-scrolls-online-developers-lay-off-300-employees-a-week-before-christmas/

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  • IkedaIkeda Member RarePosts: 2,751
    edited December 2015
    Seriously, you come here just to stir crap?  Right on the front page of this very site... The article and then the correction because everyone is wrong and the newspaper needs to fact check itself.

    You're not Clark Kent....

    Edit:  go ahead and keep adding articles with the same faulty source.  MMORPG.com is already on it:  http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/view/news/read/37626/Elder-Scrolls-Online-UPDATE-CS-Center-Still-Open-Newspaper-Report-Erroneous-.html
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    side note:

    They also thought that VR was a bad idea and then decided to sue Oculus.

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  • ElRenmazuoElRenmazuo Member RarePosts: 5,361
    http://connachttribune.ie/games-over-for-software-giants-as-galway-loses-300-jobs-741/

    "Around 300 workers have been dealt a major blow ahead of the Christmas at multinational software company ZeniMax Online Studios, after the business effectively shut down its base in Galway."
  • bcbullybcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843
    Elder Scrolls Online : UPDATE: CS Center Still Open, Newspaper Report Erroneous

    http://www.mmorpg.com/newsroom.cfm/game/821#QmMBKMTikE42HEvF.99
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  • Tasslehoff35Tasslehoff35 Member UncommonPosts: 962
    edited December 2015
    Oh look who is trying to stir the pot again with inaccurate misleading links...shocker 
  • IkedaIkeda Member RarePosts: 2,751
    I wish people would just.. I dunno... actually read MMORPG before going on the forums.... clearly it's here, it's already been discussed and corrected.... DAYS before the next person comes along and posts the exact same crap.
  • SlothnChunkSlothnChunk Member UncommonPosts: 788
    It was 50 customer service people at their Ireland location and it happened in mid-August.  Routine and expected following the console launch in June.
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  • TeknoBugTeknoBug Member UncommonPosts: 2,156
    Almost every year I hear about mass layoffs JUST before Christmas, what stupid timing some of these companies picks.

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  • baphametbaphamet Member RarePosts: 3,311
    edited December 2015
    TeknoBug said:
    Almost every year I hear about mass layoffs JUST before Christmas, what stupid timing some of these companies picks.
    yeah especially when isn't even true, how un Christmas like!
  • time007time007 Member UncommonPosts: 1,062
    Ikeda said:
    Seriously, you come here just to stir crap?  Right on the front page of this very site... The article and then the correction because everyone is wrong and the newspaper needs to fact check itself.

    You're not Clark Kent....

    Edit:  go ahead and keep adding articles with the same faulty source.  MMORPG.com is already on it:  http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/view/news/read/37626/Elder-Scrolls-Online-UPDATE-CS-Center-Still-Open-Newspaper-Report-Erroneous-.html
    and you are not mitt romney (what with you trying to defend corporations like they are people)

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  • BrenicsBrenics Member RarePosts: 1,939
    edited December 2015
    Seems like they were right and a lot of people were let go.

    http://www.develop-online.net/news/zenimax-galway-closure-confirmed-600-laid-off-since-2014/0215041

    Over the summer of 2014, the branch’s customer service group began to handle multiple titles handled by ZeniMax Online’s sister company Bethesda Softworks, including The Evil Within and Wolfenstein, as well as legacy titles.

    However, when The Elder Scrolls Online “underperformed and didn’t meet the estimated expectations”, the decision was made to begin reducing the workforce.

    Entire departments were closed down and large numbers of employees were laid off, our source tells us, but by the beginning of 2015 it was clear that even more jobs would be cut


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  • HellboundHeartHellboundHeart Member UncommonPosts: 390
    VastoHorde said:

     ZeniMax Online Studios, The Elder Scrolls Online developer, has laid off 300 employees, according toConnacht Tribune.

    All of the employees were laid off at the Galway, Ireland studio. While the development team in Hunt Valley, Maryland remains unaffected.

    The Galway-based studio has essentially shut down as only five or six employees remain. The studio opened up just four years ago.

    http://www.vgchartz.com/article/262589/the-elder-scrolls-online-developer-zenimax-lays-off-300-employees/



    Elder Scrolls Online Developers Lay Off 300 Employees A Week Before Christmas

    http://xmmorpg.com/news/elder-scrolls-online-developers-lay-off-300-employees-a-week-before-christmas/

    The NA version will last over the EU version.
  • 209vaughn209vaughn Member UncommonPosts: 58
    LUCAS ARTS is announcing that it has laid off some employees after the release of the latest Star Wars movie.  

    DUN DUN DUN.
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