Union Blasts Quantic Dream For Live

Key Points:

• Quantic Dream announced the cancellation of its first new game in eight years, Spellcasters Chronicles, just three months after launch, with servers shutting down in June and the game removed from Steam.
• The failure of the free-to-play MOBA is expected to result in significant layoffs, with up to 95 employees potentially losing their jobs, sparking criticism from a French union blaming management, including director David Cage, for poor project oversight.
• The union highlighted years of mismanagement, lack of proper business model evaluation, and costly decisions that ignored player demands, leading to the game's rapid downfall despite external factors cited by leadership.
• Quantic Dream stated that its other project, Star Wars Eclipse, will remain unaffected by the restructuring, though employees question the rationale behind staffing decisions and the dismissal of Spellcasters Chronicles team members.
• The union also criticized NetEase, Quantic Dream’s parent company, accusing it of pressuring the early termination of Spellcasters Chronicles and insufficient marketing support, while condemning management’s overconfidence and failure to plan for possible failure.