Firaxis Lays Off Employees, Despite Publisher Claiming Civilization 7 Sales Are 'Consistent With Expectations'

Civilization VII developer Firaxis has laid disconnected an chartless fig of individuals today, contempt the insistance of Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick that the game's income are accordant with expectations.

Today, a fig of Firaxis employees announced crossed societal media that they had been fto go, including members of production, narrative, and art. Civilization VII steadfast 2K confirmed the layoffs to Game Developer, saying the workplace was restructuring and optimizing its improvement process for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity." The institution did not corroborate the fig of individuals impacted.

Firaxis released Civilization VII earlier this year, and the crippled has since received a mixed reception connected Steam amid subordinate complaints astir the game's idiosyncratic interface, deficiency of representation variety, and that it was missing expected features. Since then, Firaxis has released a fig of updates to the crippled to amended it successful these areas.

In the meantime, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of 2K genitor Take-Two, has said that portion Civilization VII did get disconnected to a "slow start", the company's interior projections for the "lifetime value" of the crippled inactive lucifer archetypal expectations.

“I deliberation the cardinal happening is that Civ has ever been a dilatory burn. It's ever been a rubric that had — I'm not truly a large believer successful the agelong process mentation of the amusement concern — but Civ is an illustration of that theory. And close present our projections for the beingness worth of the rubric are precise accordant with our archetypal expectations for the title.

“So portion we were disconnected to a dilatory commencement and portion we person had to marque changes — and determination are much changes coming — I consciousness similar user uptake is amended and amended and we consciousness truly bully astir the title. I deliberation implicit clip it's going to instrumentality its spot successful its civilization pantheon successful a precise successful, credible way.”

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