Greedfall 2 studio Spiders set for layoffs that'll affect "most" of their animators and riggers, dev claims

Staff astatine the workplace called for a onslaught implicit frustrations astir moving conditions past year

Greedfall 2 developers Spiders are going up with a layoff program that'll spot "most" of their animating and rigging squad affected, according to a station from a pb animator astatine the Nacon-owned studio.

This LinkedIn station by Erwan Perrin, whose illustration cites him arsenic having been a imperishable Spiders staffer since 2021, has been reposted by astatine slightest 4 different workers astatine the the studio.

"We’ve precocious been informed that, similar astir of the industry, Spiders Games volition proceed a layoff program and sadly astir of the Animation and Rig squad volition beryllium affected," Perrin wrote. As of writing, Spiders gameplay animator Lucas Dubois, crippled decorator Antoine Dieulesaint, crippled animator Raphaël Brousseau, and dialog creator Yaseen Lalmahomed are among those who've reposted the message.

It's presently unclear however galore unit person been affected by these alleged cuts. We've reached retired to Spiders for comment.

Spiders released Greedfall 2 into aboriginal entree past September, with the game's reviews sitting astatine mixed connected Steam arsenic of writing. Shortly earlier that release, 44 of Spiders' 95 workers signed an unfastened missive calling for a onslaught implicit moving conditions and wider absorption practices astatine the studio. Among the issues cited were "global mismanagement, turnover and recruitment problems, unacceptable delays successful achieving sex equality and parity, important deficiency of transparency, denial of problems, refusal to admit idiosyncratic practice and blocked negotiations".

Spiders responded by saying that these were "false and adjacent defamatory accusations" which "in nary mode bespeak the world of the day-to-day moving beingness of the company's employees", adding that the studio's absorption were "committed to unfastened and constructive societal dialogue". Subsequent negotiations betwixt Spiders and the French national representing the staff, the Syndicat des Travailleurs/ses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV), did look to person yielded immoderate promises that the workers would recive an "audit" of their moving conditions, arsenic good arsenic bonuses based connected Greedfall 2's show successful aboriginal access.

This year's been a peculiarly brutal 1 successful presumption of layoffs crossed the games industry, with Oblivion Remastered co-developers Virtuos being among the companies which person precocious thrown workers into the void. Here's hoping that if Spiders devs are being fto go, they tin onshore connected their feet.