It’s a dismal time to be in online game improvement, as corporations proceed to announce layoffs. Now, Take-Two Interactive – the mother or father firm of Rockstar – is trying to enact a “important value discount plan,” however it doesn’t essentially imply redundancies.

That’s in line with CEO and chairman Strauss Zelnick, who informed IGN lately that there are “no present plans” to put workers off. The specifics of this plan are mentioned to nonetheless being labored out, however Zelnick says there are different areas that want , resembling advertising, third-party bills, provide providers, and so forth.

He additionally provides that the “hardest factor to do is to put off colleagues,” although that phrasing form of suggests one would do it if it was simpler. Whether or not that occurs or not stays to be seen.

I’m a cynic, what can I say?

It’s tough to speak about Take-Two with out mentioning GTA 6. Final yr’s reveal trailer has been considered a squillion occasions, making it one of many most-viewed online game teasers in existence. If the mother or father firm does ultimately determine it must provoke layoffs, there’s no telling whether or not this is able to doubtlessly have an effect on the subsequent Grand Theft Auto sport.

Once more, that is only a full guess from me. Whereas there aren’t any “present” plans for layoffs, that doesn’t essentially imply issues received’t change sooner or later, close to or far.

Only recently, Take-Two was additionally within the headlines, going through a class-action lawsuit concerning microtransactions in NBA video games. Arduous to search out two subjects that get individuals extra riled up than layoffs and microtransactions.