The company throws on social gaming numbers are not official but apparently the total number of redundancies in the gaming industry Disney came to 700 people. In fact these days after closure of the already sensational Propaganda Games, the company has halved the workforce of Junction Points. Sales of Epic Mickey saved from permanent closure of Junction Points that he still suffered a blow.And apparently this is just the first round of staff cuts that could involve other internal developers like Black Rock Studios. The reasons are quite obvious. Among flop and bad investments Disney Interactive has recorded losses of $ 234 million. In addition, the company recently spent more than half a billion dollars (with an additional bonus of 200 million) to buy the developer of social games Playdom.
The union of these two factors led the company to change their priorities, of course, are in support of new purchases and instead let back who has not proved productive. In a nutshell, an official statement quoted by Variety is the era of social gaming and even the Disney classic products will be sold only via digital delivery.
Source: Variety
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