Developer Reflector Leisure has introduced that it has laid off a few of its employees and cancelled a undertaking that was in growth. Introduced by means of a publish on LinkedIn, the studio’s CEO Herve Hoerdt wrote about how the choice was made because of the studio’s earlier title, Unknown 9: Awakening, not reaching gross sales expectations.
“Persevering with this undertaking wouldn’t have been sustainable for the way forward for the studio,” wrote the CEO on LinkedIn. “Regrettably, this additionally implies that there can be redundancies following this determination.”
The CEO additionally revealed that the studio is not going to be engaged on a follow-up to Unknown 9: Awakening owing to the sport not hitting the gross sales efficiency anticipated by the corporate. Whereas Hoerdt refers to Unknown 9: Awakening as having a “wealthy transmedia universe,” a follow-up wouldn’t be within the works.
“The efficiency of the discharge didn’t come close to the corporate expectations, after quite a few timeline changes and investments, each financially and different, and didn’t warrant any additional exploration on this universe,” wrote Hoerdt.
The studio has not but confirmed which groups at Reflector Leisure can be affected by these layoffs. Nevertheless, Hoerdt did point out that the back-office employees can be affected, and shifting ahead, the studio will give attention to the event of single tasks reasonably than work on a number of titles in parallel.
Unknown 9: Awakening was launched again in October on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X/S. For extra particulars in regards to the title, take a look at our evaluate.
