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[Draugoth]

- Not shutting down

- Downsized from 86 to 50 people

- Office is closing as the rent lease was running out; too expensive to keep for 50 people

- Toys For Bob going fully remote; wanted to go remote themselves, not Microsoft

- New projects in the works

 

[havoc00]

Thank You Uncle PHIL!

 

[Unknown?]

Uhhh that still doesn't sound good and they are COD now so meh.

 

[Doom85]

Still seems mostly dead to me. I'm not holding out hope for Spyro 4 anymore.

 

[Shut0wen]

Uhhh that still doesn't sound good and they are COD now so meh.

Havnt they been cod for numourus years now? team that size they probably the ones that make premium skins all day

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

going remote, downsized....Bring, bright future.

 

[Elios83]

Downsized to a really small team and they don't even have an office anymore, but everything is fine and that's what they wanted? Sure?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Stealth Elf doing good work.

 

[Bernardougf]

Do Crash 5 for ps5 pro and watch this shit sell more than starCrap

 

[Kacho]

Sweet. Can we resurrect Vicarious Visions next and take them off of Call of Duty support?

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Great for only 30~ layoffs

 

[Robb]

- Not shutting down

- New projects in the works

Bring on Spyro 4!

 

[Ozzie666]

Did they not make a lot for Skylanders franchise, that franchise seemed to sell like gold until the very end and saturation. You would think a studio like this one would be safe. Crash was pretty good too.
Activsion gobble up all the profits or something? It won't be long until they are gone at 50 employees.

 

[CamHostage]

Havnt they been cod for numourus years now? team that size they probably the ones that make premium skins all day

No, they were drafted to do CoD in 2021, and they worked on Warzone 1 and Modern Warfare 2&3, so that did seem like it would have been the end of them as a family-franchise studio (this was around the time that Vicarious Visions was absorbed into Blizzard, meaning the only other studio that wasn't making CoD for Activision was no longer with Activision,) but T4B also managed to get out the online game Crash Team Rumble.

 

[bender]

The reporting for this has been all over the place with different sources mentioning 86, 76 and now 36 layoffs.

Edit: 76 was actually Sledgehammer. Looks like Toys for Bob had 180 employees in 2021.

 

[lh032]

- Toys For Bob going fully remote; wanted to go remote themselves, not Microsoft


toys for bob when suggest remote for work:

 

[jshackles]

Microsoft, a few months from now, to the remaining 50 remote employees:

 

[Holammer]

Not an OG fan of Spyro and definitely not a super fan of Crash, but I loved the Spyro Trilogy. Fingers crossed they get to develop a Spyro 4.
We're having the year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac for cryin' out loud!

 

[fart town usa]

I called it the other day,

They're all remote because it's not good for morale when the new studio head, Peter Molyneux, works permanent remote in another country.

We're so back.

 

[Del_X]

Seems some are very disappointed it wasn't worse. Incredible.

 

[SenkiDala]

Unfuck you MS !

 

[Ailike]

But my internet outrage!!!!

 

[ByWatterson]

I'm not getting divorced.

My wife is just seeing one other dude and decreasing her fidelity by 50%.

 

[poppabk]

My 'sources' have 'heard' they have closed down, who ya gonna believe?