Overview
- The studio's staff staged a union-backed picket this week to protest an internal reorganisation that followed the closure of live-service Spellcasters Chronicles.
- Protesters say roughly 115 people who worked on Spellcasters could be redeployed to Eclipse and that cutting them would leave the game unable to be completed.
- The strike was timed to coincide with a reported Lucasfilm Games delegation visiting Quantic Dream to review Eclipse’s progress.
- Quantic Dream has called the changes an 'internal reorganisation' and has not publicly reversed the reported redundancy plan or confirmed negotiations with NetEase.
- Beyond the immediate layoffs risk, developers and the STJV union say the dispute highlights wider industry problems of understaffing, failed live-service bets and the human toll of sudden job losses.