The year 2024 will be bleak for many developers. Studios have been laying off workers like crazy since last yearbut in January, several thousand employees were already affected by these dismissals. Riot Gamesdeveloper of free-to-play MOBA super popular League of Legendsdon’t escape it.
Riot Games announced this week the layoff of 530 employees, or approximately 11% of its staff. A decision made official by the CEO Dylan Jadeja in a long press releasewho explains that since 2019, Riot Games took several bad bets, at a time when the studio was expanding. The studio now wants to focus on specific projects, it has already changed course in recent months, but this was not enough to avoid layoffs. THE CEO specifies that this decision is not there to appease shareholders, but rather a necessity.
By the way, Riot Games closes its publishing studio Riot Forgewhich produced games developed by third parties in the universe of LoL as Bandle Tale, Song of Nunu, Convergence, Ruined King And Hextech Mayhemall subtitled A League of Legends Story. The teams of Legends of Runeterrathe strategic card game, have been reduced.
Riot Games will now focus on League of Legends, Valorant, Team Fight Tactics and LoL: Wild Rift. The studio is still developing the fighting game Project L and the MMO Project F. You can find Riot Points on Amazon And there Fnac.
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