Striking Quantic Dream Workers Say Star Wars Eclipse at Risk from Layoffs

Quantic Dream announced Star Wars Eclipse years ago, but we’ve barely heard anything about the project. Instead, the maker of Detroit: Become Human released a multiplayer MOBA called Spellcasters Chronicles that’s already preparing to shut down. This week, some developers held a strike outside the studio over mass layoffs, warning the cuts put Eclipse at risk.

“We believe that, as things stand, the game literally cannot be finished if the redundancy plan is implemented as currently scheduled,” one striking worker, Théo, told Gamekult. “We absolutely need the 115 people who have been inactive (or almost) for a month already.

That’s a whole month of lost production! During that month, employees could have been trained on the specific tools of Star Wars Eclipse. We also want to strongly alert management and tell them to look at all these people who are eager to work but aren’t on the day of an official visit.” The strike was planned to coincide with a reported visit from Lucasfilm representatives to check the game's status.

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