Activision studios Infinity Ward, Beenox, others hit with layoffs

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While layoffs are common in the industry, many industries for that matter, it seems rather odd to hear about redundancies when a company recently announced better than expected revenues.

According to Kotaku, the publisher has laid off 5% of it’s workforce. This includes folks holding positions at the corporate office along with Beenox, Infinity Ward and other internal studios.

An official statement sent to the site from Activision confirmed it was “realigning” its resources to support upcoming projects, and “adapt to the accelerating transition to digital.”

Per the report, 20 employees were let go from Infinity Ward. While Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare did not meet the publisher’s sales expectations especially when compared to Black Ops 3, the franchise as whole did well during the last quarter.

That said, it’s worth noting Activision mentioned during its investors call earlier this week the 2017 entry in the franchise will take “Call of Duty back to its roots.”

Along with redundancies hitting Infinity Ward, the in-house QA end of Beenox has been shuttered. A source speaking with Gamasutra stated there are still 150 developers working at the latter.

There’s more information available through the links, if you want to give a few clicks.

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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2017/02/11/activision-studios-infinity-ward-beenox-others-hit-with-layoffs/

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IlcamorristaPosted:

Activison have really messed up this year. I hope the next Cods will be good,

junoPosted:

I can see why they have layoffs, the games that are coming out aren't as good as they could be!

AR15Posted:

CriticaI "While layoffs are common in the industry, many industries for that matter, it seems rather odd to hear about redundancies when a company recently announced better than expected revenues."

It's called they want to make a profit.


If they would stop producing garbage year after year, they would turn a profit without having to lay people off. They are losing more and more every quarter even though they are technically still making a profit. Their profit margins have dropped a lot since the OG CoDs.

kimPosted:

Hopefully this shows them they need to be releasing a better product if their gonna be putting one out every year.

NickPosted:

Maybe if these companies understood what makes the community happy, and what they want, and actually made an effort to please them, there wouldn't be any layoffs

SleepPosted:

I just don't feel like they can make a come-back.

Breezy--Posted:

They need to realise if they go back to the black ops 1 or mw2 days they will make alot of sales and dolla

CriticaIPosted:

"While layoffs are common in the industry, many industries for that matter, it seems rather odd to hear about redundancies when a company recently announced better than expected revenues."

It's called they want to make a profit.

DecyPosted:

Now there feeling the hate lol... they should have sorted call of duty out when everyone told them to..

SakuPosted:

There must be durr copying halo with there shizz and titan fall as well


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