Like our colleagues in Zenimax QA, we are shocked and upset by Microsoft's latest frivolous layoffs. While nobody in One BGS was affected, we lost friends in Zenimax's other departments — friends essential in helping us build and maintain our games.
650 individuals within the gaming division at Microsoft who work tirelessly to ship and support our multi-million dollar products just lost their jobs. That’s over 2500 people this year in Microsoft’s gaming subsidiaries alone. All of our union members survived another day.