ZeniMax staff discuss Microsoft's "inhumane" mass layoffs and how the future looks for the "carcass of workers that remains"

It’s insidious. They just don’t want to pay employees. The only reason they have any is bc of the fear of starvation/homelessness.

We, as consumers, cannot let this continue.

The staff Game Developer spoke to for the report paint a horrifying picture of the day that saw Microsoft jettison all of those people and projects.

They claim staff were removed from company communications such as Slack and email before human resources had even made contact to inform them whether they'd been let go.

The creative energy they put into inventing new reasons for gamedevs to hate their job could be better put in, like, games?