genuinely insane this doesn't end with any accountability on behalf of the studio's leadsership. i'm so mad, dude. two hundred and twenty. 220! 220 people who bought homes, who planned for a future, who have medical bills to pay. i'm seeing red.
When I worked for a German gaming company, the new Chinese owners had a brilliant idea to cut costs. They wanted to cancel the game I was working on and let me and my entire team go. Unfortunately, they ran headlong into the company's Betriebsrat, a worker union. The union pointed out that they could not support redundancies affecting only a single project at the studio. That's because a Betriebsrat has equal sayaas management in these matters. If the owners wanted to make cuts, they would have to spread them out across all departments. Those roles would actually be made redundant, so they couldn't be rehired for at least two years. And that's how everyone on my team got to keep their jobs for a little while longer.