Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM is reportedly going through some points, together with workers cuts and canceled tasks.
In response to a report from GLHF, the standalone growth for Disco Elysium, codenamed X7, has been canceled. ZA/UM president Ed Tomaszewski reportedly mentioned that it was a minimum of a 12 months or two away from being accomplished and it might’ve taken extra effort and time to develop than the unique Disco Elysium did.
24 workers, or a couple of quarter of ZA/UM’s workforce, are on the verge of being let go. CEO Ilmar Kompus reportedly informed workers that layoffs would impression the groups engaged on X7, corresponding to its writers and engineers, in addition to these not engaged on it and people in non-improvement roles. These embrace 3D, 2D, and technical artists, manufacturing IT, and animation departments.
Moreover, Disco Elysium’s sequel, codenamed Y12, was reportedly canceled in 2022, and the event of a brand new sci-fi RPG, P1, was reportedly paused final 12 months.
GameSpot has reached out to ZA/UM for remark concerning this report.
ZA/UM has confronted controversary prior to now few years because of key Disco Elysium builders leaving the corporate again in 2022. The builders claimed they had been ousted and defrauded however ZA/UM mentioned they had been fired for misconduct.