Warner Bros. Discovery’s gaming division (which could also be owned by Netflix, Paramount, or Skydance) has not shown strong results recently.
Warner Bros. Games reportedly laid off an unknown number of employees from its San Francisco studio. According to Game Developer, former employees said their jobs were cut due to layoffs. Last month, design director Tony Perkins announced that his position and team would be eliminated at the end of December. Perkins said this happened because a great game did not achieve the necessary success.
Another former employee, art director Roland Herran, said that the studio had been hit by layoffs. Herran had worked at the studio for more than a decade. He wrote that he felt extremely fortunate to have worked with such fantastic people at the San Francisco studio of Warner Bros. Games and that he is very proud of the work they did together. Herran grew a lot at the studio and is optimistic about the future.
The San Francisco studio is the headquarters of Warner Bros.’ digital publishing division. Some of the developer’s mobile games, including DC Worlds Collide and the multi-platform MultiVersus (which was shelved last May due to poor performance), are made there. Early last year, Warner Bros. Games closed three studios: Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and Warner Bros. San Diego were among them.
At the time, the company announced that it had to make difficult decisions to reorganize its development studios and investments to create the best possible games with its most important franchises. This led to the cancellation of Monolith’s Wonder Woman game, which the company described as a difficult decision. They hoped to provide players and fans with the best possible experience with the iconic character. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible within the framework of their strategic priorities.
It’s been a few years since the release of Hogwarts Legacy, and Warner has simply been unable to produce any meaningful results since then.
Source: Gamesindustry, Game Developer, LinkedIn, LinkedIn
![However, an anonymous GOG employee paints an even darker tone of the internal situation: „We were told it’s a financial decision. GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher [developer] revenue shares have, or will, affect the bottom line as well.](https://thegeek.games/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-gog-1-302x180.jpg)
