A month after the discharge of its debut recreation Unknown 9: Awakening, Bandai Namco-owned Reflector Leisure has introduced that it’s shedding 18% of its workforce so it might “effectively ship on our most urgent aims whereas guaranteeing that each member of our crew can meaningfully contribute to our ongoing initiatives.”
Reflector stated the layoffs weren’t pushed by “industrial success or exterior pressures,” however merely the truth that there’s presently not sufficient work to help the studio at its present measurement.
“With the latest launch of Unknown 9: Awakening and our two key manufacturing traces getting into the early phases of improvement, we should be sure that our workers is laser-focused on contributing to the initiatives that wholly profit from their skillsets,” basic supervisor Marc-André Séguin wrote (by way of Recreation Developer). “As such, we’re decreasing our crew by roughly 18% of Reflector’s complete workforce, a choice that impacts individuals who aren’t assigned to roles that our lively initiatives require.”
Unknown 9: Awakening didn’t make an particularly good impression when it launched in October. We appreciated what we noticed of it in a pre-release preview properly sufficient, however it presently holds a “combined” score on Steam, and extra notably the all-time peak concurrent participant rely on the platform was simply 285, a quantity that shortly tanked to double digits. We do not have entry to console participant numbers however it hasn’t fared any higher on different platforms critically, holding a not-great 59% combination rating on Metacritic.
The precise variety of folks put out of labor hasn’t been specified, however Reflector’s LinkedIn web page signifies it has 51-200 workers, with 145 “related members”—that’s, LinkedIn customers who record Reflector as their present office.
