Placing Distance Studios, the developer behind 2022’s The Callisto Protocol, is shedding some builders. The corporate confirms it has left 32 staff go in a transfer to “realign” the studio, for present and future tasks.

Twitter consumer @bogorad222 first noticed LinkedIn messages discussing the layoffs and, in a press release despatched to IGN, Placing Distance confirmed the information. The studio, recognized for 2022’s The Callisto Protocol, says 32 staff are affected by the layoffs which have been applied “to raised place its present and future tasks for fulfillment.”

“Placing Distance Studios and KRAFTON have applied strategic adjustments that realign the studio’s priorities to raised place its present and future tasks for fulfillment. Sadly, these adjustments have impacted 32 staff. Honoring the invaluable contributions of every departing workforce member with materials assist within the type of outplacement companies and significant severance packages is our prime precedence throughout this troublesome second.”

Placing Distance suffers layoffs

The Callisto Protocol was launched to lukewarm important reception. Although it has garnered a devoted following, it was beforehand confirmed that Callisto failed to satisfy Krafton’s gross sales targets.

Placing Distance additionally talked about that offering ex-employees with “outplacement companies and significant severance packages” stays a prime precedence. Nonetheless, this isn’t the primary time the studio finds itself at odds with its staff. After the discharge of The Callisto Protocol, some staff complained that they’d not been credited for his or her work. A post-launch replace restored their omitted improvement credit.

The point out of “future tasks” within the assertion does counsel that Placing Distance is engaged on one thing new. However, it seems the studio’s debut title hasn’t been the working begin one would hope for.

The Callisto Protocol is out there on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S.