Layoffs are something we've heard quite a bit about in the industry recently, as not only have we reported today on ArenaNet letting staff go, but there was a lot of discussion generated last week when Activision Blizzard laid off around 800 individuals a few weeks ago. Now we have another story to report, as GOG is also dealing with the same struggles.
The platform, owned by CD Projekt Red's parent company CD Projekt, is facing financial issues, as one ex-employee allegedly told Kotaku.
"Letting people go is never easy," a GOG representative said in the same report. "We have been rearranging certain teams since October 2018, effecting in closing around a dozen of positions last week. At the same time, since the process started we have welcomed nearly twice as many new team members, and currently hold 20 open positions."
Another ex-staff member claimed that layoffs had affected 10% of the staff and that "GOG's revenue couldn't keep up with growth, the fact that we're dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market's move towards higher [developer] revenue shares has, or will, affect the bottom line as well. I mean, it's just an odd situation, like things got really desperate really fast. I know that February was a really bad month, but January on the other hand was excellent. We were in the middle of a general restructuring, moving some teams around, not unprecedented. But layoffs that big have never happened before."
We wish those affected all the best.