Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm

Publishers accidental it's a restructure aimed astatine optimising the improvement process

Image credit: 2K / Firaxis

Civilization 7 developers Firaxis person undergone a "staff reduction" affecting an unspecified fig of workers today, publishers 2K person confirmed to RPS.

News of the cuts broke via a bid of posts from present erstwhile Firaxis writer Emma Kidwell. "I was affected by the layoffs astatine Firaxis, and americium unfastened to afloat clip penning enactment astatine your studio," she wrote connected LinkedIn. "I'm an incredibly adaptable writer who wrote connected Civilization VII and Marvel's Midnight Suns during my (nearly) 5 years astatine the studio, and I promote you to support an oculus retired for my erstwhile colleagues who were besides laid off."

Responding to RPS' outreach astir the post, a 2K spokesperson provided the pursuing statement: "We tin corroborate determination was a unit simplification contiguous astatine Firaxis Games, arsenic the workplace restructures and optimizes its improvement process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity."

The spokesperson added that 2K's argumentation is not to disclose specifically however galore unit are affected by layoffs. The timing of the layoffs seems worthy noting, with Kidwell posting not agelong aft Hollow Knight: Silksong's merchandise arrived and sucked up a batch of attention.

Firaxis person antecedently laid disconnected unit backmost successful 2023, erstwhile 30 employees were fto spell arsenic portion of a wider cost-reduction programme astatine 2K genitor institution Take-Two. Since then, Firaxis person released Civilization 7, which garnered mixed reception retired of the gate, with players criticising the idiosyncratic interface among different features. Firaxis person worked to merchandise a clump of updates and patches since, some tweaking areas of the crippled folks haven't meshed with, and adding immoderate immense maps.

Greg Costikyan wrote the pursuing successful our Civ 7 review:

Civilization 7, arsenic presently constituted, has immoderate existent flaws – and though I expect they whitethorn beryllium fixed successful aboriginal updates (and determination are workarounds), immoderate of this is simply a small sloppy. The astir basal contented is: combat sucks. Before we get to why, let's archetypal speech astir immoderate of Civilization 7's large caller ideas. It’s beauteous wide that the main plan interest this clip is to code 2 criticisms of the earlier iterations. In fact, the crippled is palmy connected that score.

Our champion to the Firaxis unit affected by these layoffs.