Eidos Montreal confirms 27 employees have been hit with layoffs

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The developer behind the hit Thief series, Eidos Montreal, has unfortunately released that their staff have been hit with layoffs costing a whopping 27 employees their jobs just one week after they rebooted their Thief series.

Yes it is true we've let 27 people go today, unfortunately it's something that every major studio has to do sometimes in order to ensure you have the right set up for current and future projects. It's never a nice thing to do but we are genuinely trying to offer as much support as much as we can. We're trying to re-locate as many people as possible into other roles here or at our other studios and we've been in touch several studios in Montreal to arrange a career day for those affected by this. We're very thankful for all their hard work and we sincerely wish them well.Eidos Montreal


Thief was recently launched on February 25th in the US and 28th in Europe for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, and PC platforms.

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Third_EyePosted:

RGHSigned
FouLR Not only 27 employees, but 27 families.

Lets not forget that..


Yeah, its sad honestly. But hey, they got money. Their families and themselves should be fine.


"Their families and themselves should be fine." Facts.

RGHSignedPosted:

FouLR Not only 27 employees, but 27 families.

Lets not forget that..


Yeah, its sad honestly. But hey, they got money. Their families and themselves should be fine.

XenoChristPosted:

Not only 27 employees, but 27 families.

Lets not forget that..

T0RONTOPosted:

Layoffs just continue to hit the gaming industry

SolvePosted:

daRealRush Is it just me, or has anybody been hearing about people getting laid off from Video Game Companies like this one, a lot lately. I mean, yeah, I understand that they need to get the right set up and what not, but it seems like more and more people are getting laid off. I don't know, it might just be me.


You have to do whats best for business.

MaggardoPosted:

Is it just me, or has anybody been hearing about people getting laid off from Video Game Companies like this one, a lot lately. I mean, yeah, I understand that they need to get the right set up and what not, but it seems like more and more people are getting laid off. I don't know, it might just be me.

-DynamicPosted:

Aftercast
Kanashimi Of course it will impact future games, that's the whole point, they put people off so that they can have the right set up as stated above, who actually reads the article before commenting just to get MVC?


Unfortunately that's really rare to see lately.


I look through otherwise in some cases i wouldn't know what i am talking about.

-DynamicPosted:

Well atleast they are trying to keep them with the business :)

MultitaskPosted:

damn that sucks hope they got some of the shares that thief made.

SIKSPosted:

That's a lot of people being kicked out, i do feel bad for them.


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