Just a year after acquiring it, CD Projekt has made major layoffs at The Molasses Flood.
I was happy to hear last week that Project Sirius, the Witcher spinoff game in development at CD Projekt's Molasses Flood studio, wasafter running into some kind of trouble earlier this year. But as a result of changes to the project's new direction, 29 people, most of them employees at The Molasses Flood, have been laid off.
Sirius was revealed in October 2022 as"an innovative take on The Witcher universe," being developed by Molasses Flood with support from CD Projekt Red.
A regulatory report released last week announced that"work on defining a new framework for Project Sirius" had been completed, and that some of the financial writeoffs had been reversed as a result. But shortly after that, several Molasses Flood employees said on social media that they'd been let go. Today CD Projekt confirmed the layoffs in a statement sent to PC Gamer.
"Because the project changed, so has the composition of the team that's working on it – mainly on The Molasses Flood's side," a company representative said."The concrete number of employees we parted ways with is 21 team members in the US and 8 in Poland ." Yesterday I was laid off from Molasses Flood.It's not as fun to update the bio this time.I enjoyed the work I'd been doing until my last day and would love to keep doing that.If anyone has any leads on a narrative and/or tech design position I'd be happy to take a look.I'm sad to say I was laid off from The Molasses Flood. I'm starting to look for new opportunities now.