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Disco Elysium Studio Says Game About People Forced Into Impossible Situations Didn't Sell Well Enough To Prevent Layoffs
Kotaku • • technology
Key Points:
- ZA/UM Studio's game Zero Parades: For Dead Spies received critical acclaim but failed to achieve financial success, leading to layoffs affecting up to 32 employees across all departments.
- The studio is coordinating with its labor union to manage the redundancy process amid these workforce reductions.
- ZA/UM has faced ongoing turmoil over the past four years, including previous layoffs and internal scandals involving its founders.
- In 2022, founders Robert Kurvitz, Aleksander Rostov, and Helen Hindpere disclosed their involuntary departure from the company, which ZA/UM initially tried to keep confidential.
- Legal disputes followed, with Kurvitz and Rostov suing ZA/UM over alleged illegal takeover of the studio, while ZA/UM accused them of fostering a toxic work environment and attempted intellectual property theft.
